[Just for fun] Trex Vs Triceratops : The Most DISRESPECTFUL Dinosaur Fight Ever
In Depth A lot has been claimed about Lagosuchus, even claims that it may be ancestral to the dinosaurs. However on the flip side to that the holotype specimen of Lagosuchus is seen as some to be so poorly preserved that Lagosuchus is not determinate enough to refer further remains too, to say anything even … Read more
In Depth At around three meters long, Secernosaurus was very small for a hadrosaur, though its claim to fame is not size, but the fact that it was the first hadrosaur known to come from South America. In addition Secernosaurus seems to represent a saurolophine hadrosaurid similar to Kritosaurus, and saurolophines are best documented … Read more
In Depth Because this genus of possible titanosaur is only based upon teeth, Neosodon is usually treated as a highly dubious genus. First considered to have been a theropod similar to Megalosaurus, then a synonym to Iguanodon, Neosodon was later considered to be a sauropod, perhaps a brachiosaurid (similar to Brachiosaurus). The 2006 description of … Read more
In Depth At various times Proaigialosaurus has been considered to be a pleurosaur, a sphenodont to even a primitive member of the Aigialosauridae, hence the name Proaigialosaurus which means ‘before Aigialosaurus’, a reference to the type genus of this group. However the Aigialosauridae contains some of the primitive mosasaurs, and most of the genera from … Read more
In Depth Aplestosuchus has been one of the most exciting notosuchian discoveries as the holotype specimen of the genus was found to have had the teeth and partial skull remains of a smaller sphagesaurid crocodyliform within the abdominal cavity. The partial state of preservation of these remains as opposed to the much better state of … Read more
In Depth A relatively small and unassuming pliosaur, Peloneustes shows a dental specialisation where the teeth were not as sharp as other presumably piscivorous (fish eating) marine reptiles. The blunter teeth would have instead been better suited for cracking the shells of cephalopods like belemnites and ammonites so that Peloneustes could easily eat the soft … Read more
In Depth Compared to some larger Cretaceous crocodiles such as Deinosuchus, Allodaposuchus was actually quite small, but it still would have been a serious danger to the smaller dinosaurs that were running across Europe during the Cretaceous. Given the speed of smaller ornithopod dinosaurs the best chance that Allodaposuchus had of making a kill would … Read more
In Depth Macrocnemus is a genus of extinct archosauromorph that seems to have had a wide distribution during the Triassic given that fossils of the genus are known from central Europe and China. Further Reading - Macrocnemus nicht Macrochemus. Centralblatt fur Mineralogie. - Geologic und Palaeontologie; Stuttgart. 1931 Abt B 655–656. - F. Nopcsa - … Read more
In Depth Aardonyx is a very special sauropodomorph as it represents the transitional stage between bipedal ancestors and quadrupedal descendants. This change is most evident when examining the legs, which show adaptations for a slower, yet more powerful method of walking. These changes combined with an increasingly quadrupedal method of weight bearing would allow the … Read more
In Depth Not much can be said about Comodactylus because it is only known from a fourth metacarpal, the hyper extended finger that made up the outer trailing edge of the wing. The prooportions of the bones have at least indicated that Comodactylus belongs within the Rhamphorhynchoidea group of pterosaurs, although if the size estimates … Read more