Dinosaurs
Creatures from another age
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Attenborosaurusby Ghirin
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Attenborosaurus
Author: Ghirin
The genus Attenborosaurus was named in honor of British naturalist Sir David Attenborough. Its fossils were found in Europe and were originally classified as a species of Plesiosaurus.
Attenborosaurus is fully compatible with Cryptocleidus.
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Cranky Cretaceous by Jeff
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Saltasaurus and Struthiomimus
Two wonderful dinosaurs originally released at JBL's (Jeff) old site Zooty ZT.
Struthiomimus is an omnivore, small and fast.
Saltasaurus is an herbivore.
Updated by fern and Jay Sept 2008 to add English translations done by Dizzy (thank you), making the sounds more efficient, and removing some unnecessary files.
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Arctic Homotherium Serum by Ghirin
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The saber-toothed cats were one of the major branches of the prehistoric felines.
The genus Homotherium contained lion-sized felines with laterally flattened canines, unlike the conical canines of modern cats. Homotherium fossils have been found in both Pleistocene North America (H. serum) and Eurasia (H. latidens) and these cats were probably specialists in hunting young pachyderms such as mammoths.
White variants naturally occur in todays lion and tiger populations, but such a color is usually a disadvantage. However, a pale coat might have been an advantage to populations of Homotherium living in areas with extensive snow cover (Alaska, Siberia).
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Draconyx by Ghirin
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Draconyx
Author: Ghirin
Draconyx's ("Dragon Claw") fossils were found in Portugal. It was similar in size and build to Camptosaurus.
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Elasmosaurus by Ghirin
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Elasmosaurus Author: Ghirin
Elasmosaurus ("Metal Plate Lizard") is a genus of large plesiosaurs known for their long necks. This genus contains several species with E. platyurus being the prototype specimen.
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Edmontosaurus by Ghirin
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Edmontosaurs
Author: Ghirin
Edmontosaurus was the most abundant genus of herbivore at the end of the Cretaceous period. Many skeletons have been found, including ones with mummified skin.
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Hesperosaurus by Ghirin
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Hesperosaurus by Ghirin
Hesperosaurus ("Western Lizard") is the oldest known genus of stegosaur in North America.
Reference:
The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs by Dougal Dixon. 2006
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Shuvuuia by Ghirin
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Shuvuuia was a member of the bird-like alvarezsaurid group. A distinguishing feature of this group was the short arm ending in a large claw. This might be an adaptation for digging for food.
Reference:
The Illustrated Ecyclopedia of Dinosaurs by Dougal Dixon. 2006
www.wikipedia.com
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Xenosmilus by Ghirin
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Xenosmilus by Ghirin
Xenosmilus ("Strange knife") is a relatively newly described genus of saber-toothed cat.
This genus has one species, X. hodsonae, and the fossils were found in a limestone quarry in Florida.
Xenosmilus lived about 1 million years ago. It was a heavily built feline approximately the size of a lion. The upper canine teeth were relatively short and broad.
References:
www.wikipedia.org
http://www.messybeast.com/cat-prehistory.htm
http://www.niu.edu/pubaffairs/NT/1999/march22/saber.html
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Efraasia by Ghirin
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Efraasia (named in honor of Eberhard Fraas) was a prosauropod discovered in Triassic deposits from Germany.
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Mbielu-Mbielu-Mbielu by Ghirin
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Mbielu-mbielu-mbielu by Ghirin
The name Mbielu-mbielu-mbielu means "the animal with planks growing out of its back."
This cryptid is from the Likouala swamp region of the Republic of Congo. The exact nature of Mbielu-mbielu-mbielu is unknown. Some think that it is similar to a stegosaur while others think that the cryptid is snake-like.
References:
www.wikipedia.org
http://www.cryptozoology.net/english/afric...u/overview.html
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Riojasaurus by Ghirin
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Riojasaurus ("Rioja lizard") was a prosauropod dinosaur from Argentina. The remains were found in La Roja Province. It was a heavily built animal.
Reference:
www.wikipedia.org
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Anatotitan by Ghirin
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Anatotitan
Author: Ghirin
Anatotitan ("Giant Duck") was a large flat-headed hadrosaur from North America. In older literature, Anatotitan was listed as Anatosaurus or Trachodon.
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Protarcheopteryx by Ghirin
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Protarcheopteryx
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Protarcheopteryx ("Before Archeopteryx") was a feathered dinosaur from the Cretaceous lakeside environment of Liaoning, China. It was a contemporary of Caudipteryx.
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Aegyptopithecus by Ghirin
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Aegyptopithecus by Ghirin
Aegyptopithecus was an early hominid that lived in what is now modern day Egypt.
At that time, Egypt was much more wet and humid.
Reference:
http://www.johnhawks.net/weblog/fossils/ap...egyptopithecus/
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Othnielia by Ghirin
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Othnielia Author: Ghirin
Othnielia, a small ornithopod dinosaur, was named in honor of paleiotologist Othniel Charles Marsh.
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Tanius by Ghirin
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Tanius Author: Ghirin
Tanius ("After Tan") is a genus of hadrosaur from China. The original specimen was collected by the Chinese geologist H. C. Tan and was named after him.
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Barbourofelis Fricki by Ghirin
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Barbourofelis fricki
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Barbourofelis fricki ("Barbour's Cat") was a lion-sized member of the genus Barbourofelis from the family Nimravidae. Even though Barbourofelis strongly resembled the saber-toothed cats, the nimravids are no longer considered to be true felines due to distinct anatomical differences and are sometimes referred to as paleo-sabers or false saber-toothed cats.
Barbourofelis fricki was one of the last of the genus and roamed the North American grasslands approximately 6 million years ago.
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Cryptocleidus by Ghirin
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Cryptocleidus Author: Ghirin
Cryptocleidus ("Hidden Collar Bone") was a genus of plesiosaur from the late Jurassic period. Its fossils were found in Europe.
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Proganochelys by Ghirin
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Proganochelys by Ghirin
Proganochelys, the earliest known member of the tortoise family, lived in Europe during the Triassic period.
Its body is very similar to that of modern land tortoises, but Proganochelys could not retract its head or legs into its shell.
Reference:
The Simon and Schuster Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs and Prehistoris Creatures. Cox, Savage, Gardiner, Harrison, and Palmer, 1999.
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Cretoxyrhina by Ghirin
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Cretoxyrhina mantelli
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The genus Cretoxyrhina was a member of the lamniform sharks from the late Cretaceous period. Its remains, mainly teeth, have been found worldwide. A large species, C. mantelli, has been found in what was the interior seaway of North America. It was similar in size to the modern great, white shark, but was not a close relative.
Like the modern great white shark, C. mantelli was an apex predator, feeding on marine reptiles such as moasaurs. The shark was nicknamed Ginsu due to the damage inflicted on its prey
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Euplocephalus by Ghirin
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Euplocephalus ("Well Armored Head") was a large ankylosaur from the Cretaceous period of North America.
It is one of the best known genera of this dinosaur group, with 40 known specimens.
Reference:
The Illustrated Encylopedia of Dinosaurs by Dougal Dixon. 2006
www.wikipedia.com
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Lexovisaurus by Ghirin
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Lexovisaurus by Ghirin
Lexovisaurus ("Lizard of the Lexovi Tribe") lived on the islands found in the western portion of the Tethys Sea.
Reference:
www.wikipedia.org
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Liliensternus by Moondawg
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Liliensternus was a genus of coelophysoid dinosaur from the Late Triassic period, between about 215-200 mya.
Liliensternus was originally found in 1934 in Germany and was named after the German scientist, Dr. Hugo Rühle von Lilienstern. Liliensternus was around 6 meters long and may have preyed on herbivores like Plateosaurus. It probably weighed around 400 kilograms.
The type species is Liliensternus liliensterni. A second species, Liliensternus airelensis, which had an extra pair of cervical pleurocoels, is now considered a separate genus, Lophostropheus.
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