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Subject: The thread for all things prehistoric!

Posted by: ElusiveDream
Date: Nov 19 15

From trilobites to dinosaurs to mammoths, this thread is for talking about all things prehistoric!
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ElusiveDream
Since no-one's bothered to take a guess, I'll give you the answer: Ichthyosaurus was NOT a dinosaur. It was actually a marine reptile. While Ichthyosaurus itself was quite small, some of its relatives could grow to the size of a modern Humpback Whale.


Ever since the first Ichthyosaurus was discovered back in the early 1800s, palaeontologists wondered how these animals reproduced. It was thought that they laid eggs until a remarkable fossil was discovered in Germany, showing a female Ichthyosaurus that had died whilst giving birth. If you look beneath the tail of the adult, you can see the tail of a baby sticking out. This shows that Ichthyosaurs were so well-adapted to life in the warm Jurassic oceans, they couldn't get themselves out of the water to lay eggs and, like a modern dolphin, gave birth to live young. Being born tail-first also prevented the baby from drowning.


Let's try another one: was Meganeura a dinosaur?

Reply #21. Dec 22 15, 11:22 PM

ElusiveDream
Once again no-one's bothered to take a guess, so I'll give you the answer. Meganeura was NOT a dinosaur. It was actually an extremely large flying insect, similar to a Dragonfly. It lived during the Carboniferous and Permian periods.


Let's try this one: was Liliensternus a dinosaur?

Reply #22. Dec 24 15, 8:21 PM

ElusiveDream
Still, no-one's bothered to take a guess so, yet again, I'll give you the answer. Liliensternus WAS a dinosaur. It was a small Theropod that lived in Germany during the Carnian and Norian stages of the Late Triassic period.


Let's try another one: was Qantassaurus a dinosaur?

Reply #23. Dec 28 15, 7:33 PM

ElusiveDream
Since no-one's bothered to take a guess since before the end of last year, here's the answer: Qantassaurus was a dinosaur. It was named after Australia's national airline.

Let's try this one: was Notharctus a dinosaur?

Reply #24. Mar 02 16, 5:20 AM

mask100


player avatar 		Notharctus was not a Dinosaur but was infact a prehistoric Lemur which lived in the Eocene Period. This period lasted from 56 to 34 million years ago.

Reply #25. Mar 02 16, 5:30 AM
ElusiveDream
Well done, mask100, you're right. Notharctus was a prehistoric lemur discovered in Wyoming, USA.


Let's try another one: was Camelotia a dinosaur?

Reply #26. Mar 02 16, 4:03 PM

ElusiveDream
No-one's had a guess, so here's the answer: Camelotia WAS a dinosaur. It was a large Prosauropod from the late Triassic and was named after the mythical kingdom of Camelot.


Let's try this one: was Attenborosaurus a dinosaur?

Reply #27. Mar 14 16, 1:27 AM

Mixamatosis star


player avatar 		David Attenborough is a noted naturalist and it wouldn't surprise me if someone had name a dinosaur after him. Something in the back of my mind tells me this is true. (I haven't cheated by googling it).

Reply #28. Oct 09 16, 2:11 AM
ElusiveDream
Attenborosaurus was indeed named after the famous naturalist Sir David Attenborough, but it wasn't a dinosaur. It was actually a Plesiosaur from the Early Jurassic and was first discovered in England in 1993.


Let's try another one: Was Miragaia a dinosaur?

Reply #29. Oct 09 16, 5:44 AM

ElusiveDream
Since no-one's bothered to take a guess, here's the answer: Miragaia WAS a dinosaur. It was a medium-sized Stegosaur found in Portugal in 2009. It lived during the Kimmeridgian and Tithonian stages of the late Jurassic.


Here's another question for you: Which dinosaur had what palaeontologists like to call a Thagomizer?

Reply #30. Oct 27 16, 11:22 PM

misstified star


player avatar 		Stegosaurus

Reply #31. Nov 23 17, 9:33 AM
ElusiveDream
That's correct. The spiked tail of Stegosaurus was known as a Thagomizer and there's fossil evidence that these tail spikes could cause serious, sometimes fatal, wounds. An Allosaurus found in Wyoming has a nasty injury in the pelvic region, thought to have been made by a Stegosaurus tail spike. It appears the spike penetrated solid bone and the injury then became infected.

Reply #32. Dec 09 17, 3:22 AM

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