tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5960010235948258354.comments2024-03-28T12:13:16.332+01:00ManospondylusT.K. Sivginhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01719600818183559916noreply@blogger.comBlogger148125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5960010235948258354.post-62631533216100237462024-03-19T21:55:52.245+01:002024-03-19T21:55:52.245+01:00There was also ‘Roccosaurus tetrasacralis’, which ...There was also ‘Roccosaurus tetrasacralis’, which was informally named in a dissertation by Van Heerden (1977) and appeared in faunal lists in Anderson & Cruickshank (1978) and Kitching & Raath (1984). Lambert (1983) informally named the family ‘Roccosauridae’ and described ‘Roccosaurus’ as a prosauropod with “fangs like carnosaurs’”. Van Heerden & Galton (1997) and Galton & Van Heerden (1998) reidentified it as a specimen of Melanorosaurus readi; the teeth were presumably from a different animal.<br /><br />References:<br /><br />Anderson, J.M., & Cruickshank, A.R.I. (1978). The biostratigraphy of the Permian and the Triassic. Part 5. A review of the classification and distribution of Permo-Triassic tetrapods. Palaeontologia africana, 21, 15–44. https://wiredspace.wits.ac.za/items/4fd16d7e-f449-4ed7-87be-f84793f24175<br /><br />Galton, P.M., & Van Heerden, J. (1998). Anatomy of the prosauropod dinosaur Blikanasaurus cromptoni (Upper Triassic, South Africa), with notes on the other tetrapods from the lower Elliot Formation. Paläontologische Zeitschrift, 72(1/2), 163–177.<br />https://sci-hub.se/https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2FBF02987824<br /><br />Kitching, J.W., & Raath, M.A. (1984). Fossils from the Elliot and Clarens Formations (Karoo sequence) of the Northeastern Cape, Orange Free State and Lesotho, and a suggested biozonation based on tetrapods. Palaeontologia africana, 25, 111–125. https://wiredspace.wits.ac.za/items/7baa3a73-51ac-48dd-be77-2d887ff4db61<br /><br />Lambert, D. (1983). A field guide to dinosaurs. Avon Books. https://archive.org/details/fieldguidetodino00lamb/page/104/mode/2up?view=theater<br /><br />Van Heerden, J. (1977). The comparative anatomy of the postcranial skeleton and the relationships of the South African Melanorosauridae (Saurischia: Prosauropoda) [Unpublished doctoral dissertation]. University of the Orange Free State. [not seen]<br /><br />Van Heerden, J., & Galton, P.M. (1997). The affinities of Melanorosaurus - a Late Triassic prosauropod dinosaur from South Africa. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Monatshefte, 1997(1), 39–55.<br />https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Peter-Galton/publication/283525433_The_affinities_of_Melanorosaurus_-_A_Late_Triassic_prosauropod_dinosaur_from_South_Africa/links/5764c06c08ae421c44835df5/The-affinities-of-Melanorosaurus-A-Late-Triassic-prosauropod-dinosaur-from-South-Africa.pdfTyler Greenfieldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00193399987340822462noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5960010235948258354.post-31081246634177093532024-03-18T13:56:04.344+01:002024-03-18T13:56:04.344+01:00A very thorough and very amateur-friendly breakdow...A very thorough and very amateur-friendly breakdown of something I had absolutely no idea about beyond a vague notion of 'some people, at some times, maybe said some prosauropods were carnivorous. Thank you.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5960010235948258354.post-86679313413234015372024-02-25T10:36:56.967+01:002024-02-25T10:36:56.967+01:00They‘re called birds.
Of the terror kind, as you...They‘re called birds. <br /><br />Of the terror kind, as you will see. T.K. Sivginhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01719600818183559916noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5960010235948258354.post-13195189192677328092024-02-25T04:28:14.111+01:002024-02-25T04:28:14.111+01:00Dinosaurs in the Eocene? :/
Nice to see you back! ...Dinosaurs in the Eocene? :/<br />Nice to see you back! Hope life is getting better for you!Starfishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11202786156932850027noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5960010235948258354.post-73531464707301307542024-02-14T05:01:36.354+01:002024-02-14T05:01:36.354+01:00Jeez, this junk on top of a tough year! Hope thing...Jeez, this junk on top of a tough year! Hope things get better for you soon!Starfishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11202786156932850027noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5960010235948258354.post-9526569711536593202024-02-05T05:40:56.036+01:002024-02-05T05:40:56.036+01:00whywouldyouplaceplacozoanotnearcnidariawhywouldyouplaceplacozoanotnearcnidariaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5960010235948258354.post-83585753484849741862024-01-24T13:20:30.115+01:002024-01-24T13:20:30.115+01:00Yes, McLoughlin is definitely a huge influence. I ...Yes, McLoughlin is definitely a huge influence. I also reviewed one of his books if you look under the antique & vintage paleoart tab.T.K. Sivginhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01719600818183559916noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5960010235948258354.post-32796527406551243542024-01-22T06:08:21.485+01:002024-01-22T06:08:21.485+01:00I meant to type “bit”, not “bot”.I meant to type “bit”, not “bot”.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5960010235948258354.post-14864495939282391472024-01-22T06:07:41.331+01:002024-01-22T06:07:41.331+01:00I did a bot of a double take when I saw the title,...I did a bot of a double take when I saw the title, as Gorgoraptor was my old username on a (now defunct) Jurassic Park forum I used to frequent.<br /><br />On another note, your drawing style, especially the stippling, reminds me a lot of John McLoughlin’s work. Is he an influence on you? I mean, you do have the cover to his Archosauria as your blog’s background.Iannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5960010235948258354.post-85124502040369600802023-12-13T08:36:17.749+01:002023-12-13T08:36:17.749+01:00Looks cute! I'll have to check it out!Looks cute! I'll have to check it out!Starfishhttp://starfishaliens.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5960010235948258354.post-15324519841709095772023-10-31T17:19:37.378+01:002023-10-31T17:19:37.378+01:00I play SimEarth at least once a year, usually on a...I play SimEarth at least once a year, usually on an emulated SNES port (quite a bit easier than the PC version). I set it up on the TV and just let it run for a few hours. The possibilites of what can happen still fascinate me to this day. No other god simulation ever quite captured it like SimEarth did. I really hope it gets a proper remake someday.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5960010235948258354.post-91892621045635935062023-10-29T10:47:48.077+01:002023-10-29T10:47:48.077+01:00Hi, really interesting article, and well-written. ...Hi, really interesting article, and well-written. Thanks.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5960010235948258354.post-68788102445059844922023-10-05T11:44:02.732+02:002023-10-05T11:44:02.732+02:00Wonderful. SimEarth is a gem, isn't it? You...Wonderful. SimEarth is a gem, isn't it? You'd expect to see more iterations and advancements on it, what with computers being literally millions of times more powerful, and yet... A host of small-scale independent project, at least. Even I'm trying my hand at one, though facing the teeny tiny difficulty that I actually know next to nothing about programming. I'd like to see one devoting more detail to the evolution of species, perhaps replacing the hardcoded list of organism groups (my least favorite aspect of the game) with the "tech tree" of organs and adaptations that you mention, but that each species would have to research independently (at least from their splitting point). Each tile would contain a number of ecological niches for which the species would have to compete, using each other as resources, based on their evolved attributes. Perhaps in several years I will be able to turn it into a reality.Concavenatorhttps://www.deviantart.com/concavenator/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5960010235948258354.post-50346648531484079452023-06-18T15:27:38.748+02:002023-06-18T15:27:38.748+02:00Eric Buffetaut recently published a study on the 1...Eric Buffetaut recently published a study on the 1884 art piece, and has some pretty interesting things in it.<br />- The piece was first published in a french publication Science et Nature.<br />- The art is not by "A. Tobin", but frenchman Auguste Jobin, and the article it was in was written by palaeontologist Henri Emile Sauvage.<br />- That other dino is not a giant Compsognathus, but most likely "Comptonotus", a preroccupied name given to Camptosaurus.<br />So, you may want to update the article.<br />https://fundacionazara.org.ar/img/revista-historia-natural/tercera-serie-volumen-13-1-2023/HN_13_1_121-133.pdfZain Ahmedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04773208457416822584noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5960010235948258354.post-86943848864784614772023-06-18T14:51:07.834+02:002023-06-18T14:51:07.834+02:00This comment has been removed by the author.Zain Ahmedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04773208457416822584noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5960010235948258354.post-507406074427889662023-05-11T08:37:41.169+02:002023-05-11T08:37:41.169+02:00Belated nitpicks:
Linnaeus wouldn't have give...Belated nitpicks:<br /><br />Linnaeus wouldn't have given dinocaridids their own phylum, because he didn't use any ranks between Kingdom and Class. He'd probably have put them into his class Insecta, which was roughly equivalent to modern Arthropoda.<br /><br />Also, humans aren't stem monotremes, because Theria isn't quite extinct yet.<br /><br />Nevertheless, I quite enjoyed the post.Andreas Johanssonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08802392912541974977noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5960010235948258354.post-24672874200303255542023-05-10T22:09:19.635+02:002023-05-10T22:09:19.635+02:00I sometimes think sadly of the extinct megafauna w...I sometimes think sadly of the extinct megafauna when watching nature documentaries like Planet Earth. It has beautiful panoramic video of vast, still-undeveloped landscapes, but sometimes I look at (for example) the grasslands of Central Asia in those scenes and realize how empty and almost lifeless the land looks without the vast, dense herds of mammoth, bison, antelope, wild horses, aurochs, rhinos, muskoxen, and giant camels that belong there. We have reduced most of the world to a near-wasteland, compared to what it should be.Ellen S.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5960010235948258354.post-15525626401699404812023-05-10T21:53:54.507+02:002023-05-10T21:53:54.507+02:00I didn’t elaborate on that because I already told ...I didn’t elaborate on that because I already told that story in another post (Solved and Unsolved Fossil Enigmas Part 1)T.K. Sivginhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01719600818183559916noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5960010235948258354.post-26145991234191095662023-05-10T21:19:31.285+02:002023-05-10T21:19:31.285+02:00This article also understates how allien Hallucige...This article also understates how allien Hallucigenia seemed. For a long time it was reconstructed upside down, with rigid peg-legs and dorsal tentacles of no clear function. It was also depicted backwards with the head at the tail end and a giant featureless blob for a head instead.Ellen S.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5960010235948258354.post-51911420401045597862023-05-10T20:42:15.179+02:002023-05-10T20:42:15.179+02:00Thank you for giving me the source of that armor-p...Thank you for giving me the source of that armor-plated, ankylosaur-like, retro stegosaur.Ellen S.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5960010235948258354.post-6557077326011594122023-05-10T19:35:03.963+02:002023-05-10T19:35:03.963+02:00The old depiction of Venus as a jungle dinosaur wo...The old depiction of Venus as a jungle dinosaur world lives on in modern space fantasy, much like today's planetary romances that continue the dying Mars concept. For example, in Starfinder the solar system is loosely based on ours with rocky inner planets, an asteroid belt, and outer gas giant (plus some extra planets). The four inner planets are clearly based on ours, but fancifully inhabitable: Aballon is Mercury, Castrovel the Green is Venus with jungles and dangerous dinosaur-shaped life, Golarion is Earth, and Akiton the Red is dying Mars.Ellen S.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5960010235948258354.post-74527669995064642002023-05-04T10:56:52.029+02:002023-05-04T10:56:52.029+02:00Hi great readingg your postHi great readingg your postGrilled Cheese Productshttps://www.grilledcheeseguide.com/products/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5960010235948258354.post-18639084933050603202023-04-29T20:26:20.598+02:002023-04-29T20:26:20.598+02:00I know that Stan will come to the Abu Dhabi Natura...I know that Stan will come to the Abu Dhabi Natural History Museum, but as far as I am aware it is not known if they were the original buyers or who owned the skeleton between the auction and that announcement. As a funny side-note, for a time there were even rumours that the buyer was Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, but that was quickly debunked. T.K. Sivginhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01719600818183559916noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5960010235948258354.post-46251545444911999572023-04-28T16:02:12.481+02:002023-04-28T16:02:12.481+02:00Apparently, Stan was bought by a new natural histo...Apparently, Stan was bought by a new natural history museum in Abu Dhabi:<br />https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/stan-the-t-rex-to-star-in-new-museum-in-abu-dhabi-180979799/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5960010235948258354.post-50598803292557939862023-04-26T04:31:38.198+02:002023-04-26T04:31:38.198+02:00You sneaky devil! You've literally created Cre...You sneaky devil! You've literally created Cretaceous from Ice Age 2!<br />Love the awkward-looking thallatosaur XD Cool that you follow your own advice!Starfishhttp://starfishaliens.com/noreply@blogger.com