#carnosaur

[shadefish]

March Of Robots Lancer Edition

Bonus Day 32

Carnosaur Barbarossa

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[facts-i-just-made-up]

Do you have any facts about frogs or dinosaurs

Yeah, some frogs can trans themselves at will so don't use their DNA to fill in carnivorous dinosaur genomes for theme parks. You can see the results of this in the popular 1993 film, "Carnosaur."

[hirotheinkling]

You will be taken to a remote facility to undergo the transformation and after it is complete, you will be released to roam freely alongside others who were also turned into dinosaurs.

Once you have cast your vote, please reply which individual species from the group you chose you would like to become!

[paintedmenagerie]

Saurus warrior on trogladon with an interchangeable carnosaur head.

[makairodonx]

Three Amigos: Allosaurus Edition

Impressions of the three different species of the Late Jurassic carnosaurian theropod dinosaur genus Allosaurus, which lived in Laurasia 155-145 million years ago, from top to bottom: A.fragilis and A.jimmadseni, which both hail from the Morrison Formation of western North America, and A.europaeus, which hails exclusively from the Lourinhã Formation of Portugal.

As an 8.5 to 9.7 meter (28-32 foot) long fleet-footed predator that was capable of making rapid vertical movements with its neck and had a very wide gape which enabled it to bite repeatedly into the flesh of its quarry, strong jaw muscles in spite of its weak bite force, and grasping hands that were armed with large talons, Allosaurus was superbly adapted to prey upon the ornithopods, sauropods, and thyreophorans that were abundant in a semiarid environment that had distinct wet and dry seasons and flat floodplains that were home to river-lining forests of conifers, ginkgoes, horsetails and tree-ferns as well as sprawling fern prairies, and it also shared its habitat with other large, powerful theropod predators such as Ceratosaurus, Marshosaurus and Torvosaurus.

[esmaniottoart]

Sketch_Allosaurus Crest Studies. Digital, 2022.

[artwithteggy]

He needs a name! I made a little bit more progress on the carnosaurs model, I'm currently printing his top half to ensure that my snap-fit ball joints work, especially his little arms. :3

[jurassicjoowan]

Snarling Dynamosaurus, a descedant of Proceratosaurus with photogenic teeth.

[haveyouseenthismovie-poll]

[coiled-dragonart]

A finished comm for my boyfriend!

A carno with no arms (inspired by the idea that their tiny arms were like. Just under flesh because they were that useless).

[alphynix]

Strange Symmetries #14: The Tooth About Baryonyx

Almost all toothed theropod dinosaurs had exactly four teeth on each of their premaxillary bones, the paired bones at the very tip of the upper snout.

Spinosaurus skull by AS | Public domain

The semi-aquatic spinosaurids were an unusual exception to this with six or seven teeth per premaxilla – and one particular member of this lineage seems to have been just a little bit weirder.

Baryonyx walkeri lived during the early Cretaceous, around 130-125 million years ago, in what is now southeast England. About 9m long (~30'), it had distinctive enlarged curving claws on the first fingers of its hands, along with a long narrow snout with a "rosette" at the tip followed by a notch (a shape convergent with the jaws of modern pike conger eels).

And that premaxillary rosette had a strangely asymmetrical arrangement of teeth.

The left side had six teeth, and the right side had seven.

Why? We don't know!

Baryonyx skull material is rare and fragmentary, so it's unclear if this was actually a characteristic feature of the species or if the known asymmetric rosette just represents an unusual individual.

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[dinofigureoftheday]

Dino figure of the day: Mattel Jurassic World Chaos Theory Battle Roarin' Becklespinax

[most-tragic-character-tournament]

PROPAGANDA UNDER THE CUT: [SPOILERS AHEAD]

DOC SMITH:

JOHN BOYD:

[ararebreedstory]

What are your top 10 favorite Dinosaur Movies that aren't Jurassic Park?

(In no particular order.)

1. Planet Of The Dinosaurs (1976)

2. Carnosaur (1993)

3. The Last Dinosaur (1977)

4. At The Earth's Core (1976)

5. One Million Years B.C. (1966)

6. The Land Before Time (1988)

7. We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story (1993)

8. Prehysteria! (1993)

9. Adventures in Dinosaur City (1992)

10. Theodore Rex (1995)

[makairodonx]

Two aggressive Allosaurus fragilis squabble with each other over a sauropod carcass while a hungry Harpactognathus flies by, waiting for any scraps that the theropods have left behind

[esmaniottoart]

A Different Lizard_Portrait of Allosaurus.

Digital, 2022.

References

Brown, C., Currie, P., & Therrien, F. (2022). Intraspecific facial bite marks in tyrannosaurids provide insight into sexual maturity and evolution of bird-like intersexual display. Paleobiology, 48(1), 12-43. doi:10.1017/pab.2021.29

Chure, D.J.; Loewen, M.A. (2020). "Cranial anatomy of Allosaurus jimmadseni, a new species from the lower part of the Morrison Formation (Upper Jurassic) of Western North America". PeerJ. 8: e7803. doi:10.7717/peerj.7803. PMC 6984342. PMID 32002317.

Hendrickx, Christophe; Bell, Phil R.; Pittman, Michael; Milner, Andrew R. C.; Cuesta, Elena; O'Connor, Jingmai; Loewen, Mark; Currie, Philip J.; Mateus, Octávio; Kaye, Thomas G.; Delcourt, Rafael (June 2022). "Morphology and distribution of scales, dermal ossifications, and other non‐feather integumentary structures in non‐avialan theropod dinosaurs". Biological Reviews. 97 (3):

Madsen (1976) Madsen JH. Allosaurus fragilis: a revised osteology. Utah Geological and Mineral Survey Bulletin. 1976;109:163.

Mayr, G. A survey of casques, frontal humps, and other extravagant bony cranial protuberances in birds. Zoomorphology 137, 457–472 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00435-018-0410-2