#Jianianhualong

[percivalias]

The Maniraptoran Alphabet (Part 2)

Part 2 of my dinosaur alphabet! A lot of super interesting species in this batch. I find it very amusing that Halszkaraptor is pretty much just an extra long duck... convergent evolution is wild.

[egg-on-a-legg]

pov you are a bug or perhaps a cynodont

[murfeelee]

Birds Steal Their Look Pt9: Extinct Birds

I was inspired by this thread started by tenderanarchist here to turn my TS3 sims into avian fashionistas.

Anchiornis (China, Late Jurassic, 160 million years ago) Archaeopteryx (Germany, Late Jurassic, 150 mya) Dodo (Africa, 1662) Hawaiʻi ʻōʻō (Hawaii, 1934) Jianianhualong (China, Early Cretaceous, 124 mya) Moa (New Zealand, 1445) Quetzalcoatlus (Texas, Late Cretaceous, 68-66 mya) White Swamphen (Australia, 1834) Tahiti Rail (Tahiti, 1930s) Zanabazar (China, Late Cretaceous, 70 mya)

MY THOUGHTS & CC CREDITS

MY THOUGHTS

YES, I included dinosaurs! 😜😜😜😜

And that's the end of my Birds series! \(^0^)/ Thanks, everyone, for going on this weird journey with me! XD

CC CREDITS

- (GENERAL): Avatar eyes & dots @csitaly, Indogene skin @niobecremisi, Mermaid & Sea Skins @niobecremisi, Nose masks (X X X X X X), Eyelashes ACCs (X X), Feather patterns by me, Eyes @chazybazzy

- Anchiornis: Hair at GoS, Dress & Shoes (SFS backup)

- Archaeopteryx: Shades, Hair at TSR, Top at the Store, Pants at MTS, Boots, Harpy Wings

- Dodo: Hair by EA, Top & Boots at the Store, SN EP Pants, Feathers @shushilda (made recolorable by me) | Mask in gamma by me

- Hawaiʻi ʻōʻō: Hair, Dress @criisolate, Shoes

- Jianianhualong: Hair, Outfit @joojconverts, shoes (IDEK)

- Moa: Beak, Top (SFS backup), Pets EP Pants, Boots @venusprincess-ts3 | ski mask in beta by me

- Quetzalcoatlus: Hair, Top at the Store, Shawl by me, ITF EP Pants, Harpy Feet

- White Swamphen: Hair, Fur coat @nemiga-sims-archive, Dress, Shoes (IDEK)

- Tahiti Rail: Hair, Top & Skirt by EA, Shoes

- Zanabazar: Hair, Dress at TSR, Shoes, Wings (SFS backup), Harpy Scales ACC

[power-handmaiden]

Day 238: A Recipe For Pounding My Butt

I've never seen the KFC commercial romance movie and I didn't look anything up about it before reading this tingler. I had a hunch that I wouldn't need deep knowledge of it- that Dr. Tingle, being a vegetarian and therefore probably not really having much nice to associate with a fried chicken chain, was going to run off and do his own thing with this one.

And... I was right! Vegetarianism even ended up being a big focus of this tingler. It riffs on the concept of using a romance story to get the word out about something, but instead of an advertisement for fried chicken, it's for promoting the idea of eating more plant-based meals. Even by tingler standards, the message is very blatant, but hey, what do you expect when its inspiration is an advertisement?

I did really enjoy finally getting some feathered dinosaur representation. I even learned about a dinosaur I'd never heard of today, which is an unexpected but very welcome outcome to reading a short work of erotica. I think this is the tingler that has taken me the longest to read because I felt the urge to take a break and read the Wikipedia article for Jianianhualong. Which was also really fun. Thanks for the educational moment, Dr. Tingle!

EDIT: IT IS THE NEXT DAY AMD I REALIZED. I FORGOT TO MENTION THE TINGLEVERSE CONNECTION IN THIS ONE. THE PROTAG FLIES ON KEITH AIRLINES THAT IS ALL

[si-nequal-is]

Jianianhualong tengi

[eckspeeemb]

Some more twitter doodles!

- Shota Aizawa / Eraserhead from BNHA

- Pteranodon, who may have had a pretty long bill

- Stem-birb kinda based on Jianianhualong

[dendroica]

New Birdlike Dinosaur Had Modern Feathers

Unearthed in Lioaning, China, the well-preserved fossil represents a new species of troodontid, a family of bird-like dinosaurs. The area in which it was discovered—the Jehol Group, a range of Cretaceous fossils famous for their biodiversity and preservation of stunning detail—has yielded a host of new species in previous years. What makes Jianianhualong tengi stand out is its asymmetrical feathers, which have long, stiff quills and barbs that are longer on one side than the other.

“It is widely accepted that feather asymmetry is important for [the] origin of bird flight,” e-mails Xu Xing, a paleontologist at the Chinese Academy of Sciences who co-led this study. “And now we can demonstrate that this feature has a wide distribution outside the bird family.”

The landmark 1861 discovery of Archaeopteryx, another kind of bird-like dinosaur, was the first clue that dinosaurs might have been more downy than scaly. Subsequent discoveries have reinforced paleontologists’ understanding that feathers weren’t just for the birds. Feathers offered evolutionarily advantages such as insulation, camouflage, display, and flight support (for some), and were likely a feature of all dinosaurs, even Tyrannosaurus rex.

But not all feathers are created equal. Early ancestors of birds evolved feathers before they were capable of flight, and even the presence of feathers associated with flight—for example, the asymmetrical feathers found on this new species—doesn’t mean that an animal could actually fly. Could Jianianhualong tengi get off the ground? Probably not.

“It is extremely challenging to accurately reconstruct aerodynamic capabilities in early fossil birds and bird-like dinosaurs, because there is a lot of missing data to deal with,” says Michael Pittman, a paleontologist at the University of Hong Kong and an author of this study, in an e-mail.

The asymmetrical feathers on the new species suggest that it got at least some aerodynamic boost, Pittman says, but in some dinosaur species this may have translated to longer leaps, slowing descents, or other nimble escapes from predators and pounces upon prey. “However, at this time we don't have enough information to say whether the animal could fly or glide,” Pittman adds.

[typhlonectes]

Roughly 125 million years ago back in the Cretaceous, the province of Liaoning was full of lakes and forests, with a diverse fauna of dinosaurs and pterosaurs. Today it is famous for its exquisite preservation of its past inhabitants including feathered dinosaurs.

One of them was Jianianhualong, a fluffy two-legged dinosaur, which was roughly the size of today’s turkeys.

While the discovery of feathered dinosaur fossils is no longer a big surprise, it is the type of Jianianhualong’s feather that makes it special.

Dinosaurs started sporting feathers long before they developed the ability to fly. Early feathers, however, were more of a fuzz than the quill-shaped vanes we are familiar with today. The capability of flight is said to arise when wing and tail feathers started to develop asymmetry, a feature seen in today’s birds. Such a feather is recognizable by its shape – it is wider on one side than the other...

[may-fajman]

Jianianhualong! — I love my tiny theropods

Some close-ups to offset “quality frying” under the cut :0

[albertonykus]

Were Jianianhualong’s feathers (at least some of them) damaged postmortem so that they don’t look like pennaceous feathers (similar to some Sinornithosaurus specimens)?

That’s fairly likely given that most of the feathers visible on the type specimen of Jianianhualong were poorly preserved, as stated in the original description. The only feathers that seem to retain much of their original structure are those on the tail, which are clearly pennaceous.

[a-dinosaur-a-day]

Changyuraptor yangi

By Scott Reid

Etymology: Long Feathered Robber

First Described By: Han et al., 2014

Classification: Dinosauromorpha, Dinosauriformes, Dracohors, Dinosauria, Saurischia, Eusaurischia, Theropoda, Neotheropoda, Averostra, Tetanurae, Orionides, Avetheropoda, Coelurosauria, Tyrannoraptora, Maniraptoromorpha, Maniraptoriformes, Maniraptora, Pennaraptora, Paraves, Eumaniraptora, Dromaeosauridae, Microraptoria

Status: Extinct

Time and Place: About 124.4 million years ago, in the Aptian of the Early Cretaceous 

Changyuraptor is known from the Dawangzhangzi Bed of the Yixian Formation 

Physical Description: Changyuraptor was a medium sized dinosaur, about 1.2 meters long - something like a modern turkey in terms of weight. It was covered from head to toe in feathers, including full wings on its arms, a large tail fan, and wings on its legs. It had a small, pointy head and long tail, while its body was fairly stocky. It also had sharp claws on its hands and sickle claws on its feet, like other raptor-dinosaurs. It’s tail was so long and feathered - with feathers reaching up to 30 centimeters in length and being the largest feathers known in a non-avian dinosaur - it would have allowed for softer landings for Changyuraptor. In short, it was probably the largest and fluffiest four-winged dinosaur known.

Diet: Changyuraptor would have primarily fed upon small animals like mammals, lizards, and amphibians.

By Emily Willoughby, CC BY-SA 4.0 

Behavior: Like Microraptor, Changyuraptor was probably capable of flight, making it one of the largest flying dinosaurs of the Mesozoic Era - with very few birds ever growing larger than it. It wouldn’t have been a particularly good flier though, only about as well as a chicken, taking off clumsily from the ground to go from area to area. It didn’t have enough strength in the chest and wing muscles to do much more than this, though it’s possible the hindlimb feathers would have allowed for some maneuvering in the air. It then could pounce on its prey, using its sickle claw to hold onto struggling animals before eating them. 

More importantly; the wings, tail fan, and leg wings would have all been good display structures for Changyuraptor, which would have used them to communicate with other members of the species. These feathers would have signaled anger, a desire to mate, or danger, as feathers today are used by birds. It’s probable, then, that at least some fancy coloration may have been present on Changyuraptor to aid in the communication. Changyuraptor would have been a very active animal and most likely would have taken care of its young. In fact, it may have used its variety of wings and fans to help brood the nest.

Ecosystem: Changyuraptor lived in the Yixian Formation, a highly diverse ecosystem showcasing the evolution of birdie dinosaurs - like Changyuraptor - at the beginning of the Cretaceous period. A temperate, seasonal, and humid climate, it was much like the modern day northwestern Pacific Coast, though it would have seen snow on a regular basis, as well as notable dry seasons. It was a diverse coniferous forest, with a variety of flowering plants, ferns, horsetails, ginkgoes, cycads, seed ferns, and many others. Changyuraptor would have probably spent most of its time in the trees as well as on the ground, given its flight ability. There were a lot of freshwater lakes, and abundant volcanic eruptions. 

By Ripley Cook

Changyuraptor lived along so many other kinds of dinosaurs, it’s almost impossible to list them all. There were ankylosaurs like Liaoningosaurus and ornithopods like Bolong and Jinzhousaurus. There was the larger Compsognathid Sinosauropteryx, as well as many raptors in addition to Changyuraptor like the large Zhenyuanlong, Sinornithosaurus, and Tianyuraptor. There was also the Troodontid Jianianhualong, the seed eating protobird Jeholornis, smaller protobirds like Confuciusornis and Zhongornis, and the Anchiornithid Yixianosaurus. Opposite birds were there too like Dalingheornis and Shanweiniao, as well as near-birds like Archaeorhynchus, Eogranivora, Yanornis, Hongshanornis, and Longicrusavis. Non-dinosaurs like fish, amphibians, and lizards were also there; they along with mammals like Akidolestes, Sinobaatar, Sinodelphys, Chaoyangodens, and Eomaia would have been the primary prey of Changyuraptor. There were also Choristoderes like Hyphalosaurus and Monjurosuchus, as well as pterosaurs like Cathayopterus and Ningchengopterus. In short, a fascinating snapshot of Early Cretaceous life.

Other: Changyuraptor was closely related to - and preceded - Microraptor, one of the best known feathered dinosaurs; though we don’t know if it would have been colored like Microraptor, it’s possible it may have also had iridescent feathers like its later relative.

~ By Meig Dickson

Sources under the Cut 

Amiot, R., X. Wang, Z. Zhou, X. X. Wang, E. Buffetaut, C. Lécuyer, Z. Ding, F. Fluteau, T. Hibino, N. Kusuhashi, J. Mo, V. Suteethorn, Y. Y. Wang, X. Xu, F. Zhang. 2011. Oxygen isotopes of East Asian dinosaurs reveal exceptionally cold Early Cretaceous climates. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 108 (13): 5179 - 5183.

Benson, R.B.J. & Brussatte, S. (2012). Prehistoric Life. London: Dorling Kindersley. p. 332.

Choi, Charles (15 July 2014). "Bizarre Dinosaur Had 4 'Wings,' Long Tail Feathers". LiveScience.com. Retrieved 16 July 2014.

Gang Han; Luis M. Chiappe; Shu-An Ji; Michael Habib; Alan H. Turner; Anusuya Chinsamy; Xueling Liu & Lizhuo Han (15 July 2014). "A new raptorial dinosaur with exceptionally long feathering provides insights into dromaeosaurid flight performance". Nature Communications. 5: 4382.

Iacurci, Jenna (15 July 2014). "New Four-Winged Dinosaur Built for Flight". Nature World News. Retrieved 16 July 2014.

Larsson, Hans, Hone, David, Dececchi, T. Alexander, Sullivan, Corwin, Xu, Xing. "THE WINGED NON-AVIAN DINOSAUR MICRORAPTOR FED ON MAMMALS: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE JEHOL BIOTA ECOSYSTEM" "Program and Abstracts. 70th Anniversary Meeting Society of Vertebrate Paleontology October 2010" 114A.

Meng, F.X.; Gao, S.; Liu, X.M. (2008). “U-Pb zircon geochronology and geochemistry of volcanic rocks of the Yixian Formation in the Lingyuan area, western Liaoning, China”. Geological Bulletin of China. 27: 364–373.

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[paleonativeart]

I’m not sure how long am I forgetting to make a holiday theme art gonna be, oh well. Merry (late) Christmas everyone. ^^ From left to right. Almas ukhaa (troodontid) Lianoningvenator (troodontid) Borealopelta (suncor nodosaurid) Serikornis (basal anchiornithid) Tsidiiyazhi abini (“Morning young bird” in Navajo as stem-mousebird of the early Paleocene.) Aepyorntihomimus (ornithomimid) Halszkaraptor (a duck-like dromaeosaurid “halszkaraptorinae”) Latenivenatrix (troodontid) Jianianhualong (troodontid) Moabosaurus (turiasaur or possibly a basal macronarian, speaking of which, this one was based on Camarasaurus sp has a rare keretinous stealth as it has proto-beak or flat covered scaled lips.) Conway and Kai will have a say happy holidays to all of you. These characters belongs to me. Based on skeletal designs by lythronax-argestes.

[buthisskeletonisbackwards]

Earth Archives - Jianianhualong tengi by FabrizioDeRossi

[supreme-overlord-of-pancakes]

Which came first, the Jianianhualong tengi or the egg?

Which came first the chicken or the egg is a really stupid question because…dinosaurs laid eggs

[si-nequal-is]

Jianianhualong and Yixianosaurus

[jurassicsunsets]

New dinosaurs : Jianianhualong tengi (Troodontid with asymmetrical feathers), Vouivria damparisensis (earliest known Titanosauriform? (Wikipedia disagrees) or Brachiosaurid? sauropod), and Galeamopus pabsti

Nice!