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Zegh's Dinosaur Thread
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Huh. Dinosaurs didn't like the Danish. Who would have thought.
Dinosaur fossils have been found on every continent of Earth, including Antarctica but most of the dinosaur fossils and the greatest variety of species have been found high in the deserts and badlands of North America, China and Argentina
Argentina and China, alright.
Gotta say they resemble eachother quite alot.
(Hypothetical restoration of the Bornholmensis, based on related genera.)
(Hypothetical restoration of the Bornholmensis, based on related genera.)
Thing bout nomina dubiae, is that yes - they'll generally look like the group they belong to - it's like, imagine if we find skeletal remains of tigers, then remains of lions, then remains of leopards; three different species. But when we restore them, no matter what we do - we kind of end up restoring the same animal!
So, indeed - if I were to restore Dromaeosauroides bornholmensis, I would probably just draw a Velociraptor, Dromaeosaurus or Deinonychus, and just swap the name, and none would be any wiser
Many factors play in, but most important is *stagnant environments* Mongolia, for example is a fossil hotspot, because the Gobi desert is still there, unchanged. Argentina and North America have badlands, where dry sediment falls off in great canyons, revealing entire time-spans in thick layers, you get the same in Spain.
In Europe and China, you get lagerstätte, which are typically highly specific conservation conditions, typically deeply sedimentary (Germany, preserving tiny animals PERFECTLY in lake sediments, including Der Urvogel Archaeopteryx, or China, where perfect, perfect fossils are preserved in volcanic ash sediments)
Worst conditions are humid and evolving/eroding lands. Norway is a nightmare, because although it was a huge landmass in the Mesozoic, ALL land dinosaurs walked or died on, has been eroded by the ice age, and Norwegian geology consists primarily of super-ancient rock, cambrian and older. We got a tiny spot of Jurassic in a single area (oceanic) and some Cretaceous in Svalbard.
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That's actually really fascinating and also makes you think. The ol' switch-a-roo-they-aint-got-no-clue haha.
It also made me think of that urban legend(?) That the Chinese depiction of dragons was inspired by some random ancient chinese farmer discovering the fossilized remains of a Brachiosaurus or a similair specie in his rice field.
It also made me think of that urban legend(?) That the Chinese depiction of dragons was inspired by some random ancient chinese farmer discovering the fossilized remains of a Brachiosaurus or a similair specie in his rice field.
Well it does make you wonder about all the species that might be still out there. And all the ones that we ill probably never ever find. Poor Dinos 
. Lost to time. Well they will always have a place in Zegs big heart. Even if he doesn't know them.
. Lost to time. Well they will always have a place in Zegs big heart. Even if he doesn't know them.
Chinese farmers come across dinosaur fossils non stop, so it is perfectly reasonably to assume they have always done this - and indeed, this explains a lot of dragon appearances - for example, here is an African sauropod skeleton in situ (because I couldn't find a fucking Chinese one, Google really is useless lately... )
Now, imagine you're a Chinese farmer - and you find THIS in your field!
Now, obv - they found smaller, humbler skeletons, but if you find a femur here, a rib there - you're not gonna think "AMAZING! Better call all my friends!" because essentually you just found junk.
But a skeleton likte that ^ with incomplete limbs, LONG vertebral collumn; gigantic in size - now you gotta call some friends.
TO THIS DAY uneducated remote Chinese farming communities will dig up dinosaur fossils, grind the bones to powder, and use them in magical remedies. Obviously, this is heartbreaking; so many unique species lost forever, but hey... what can you do o_-
Crni; as of now we have about 2000 dinosaur species, of which 1000 are considered valid. These 1000 species are scattered across 200 million years of time.
NOW, HERE, TODAY are about 15 000 species of mammals and birds together: in ONE "timespan". Can you even imagine how many dinosaur species are missing? Even then, we're talking species across evolutionary span, in other words: limitless! Millions!
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Another triumph for The Heartland (Eurasia Plateau, American plateau) centric geopolitic theory, they would have more Dino fossils than other place. Possibly the only place. More slots to put your cultural-centric namesake to your found fossils.
Incredible that this links shows it to me in German.
They really know everything from us.
When Penisaurus roamed th Earth.
Only "archaeological" contribution I've made is the bits of Belemnite, I find by the shore. My sister found a fossilized shark tooth though.
You've done a proper paleontology, friend! More than me, I've never found a genuine fossil in my life! Norway's almost entirely blue granite, it's just ancient single-cellular life compressed. Denmark at least has some chalk, some mesozoic ocean, and some cretaceous land over in Bornholm, with footprints even from Sauropods!
We got a tiny bit of cretaceous ocean floor in a small island up north, as well as significant ocean and landmass of early cretaceous in Svalbard, with dino footprints, and plesiosaur/ichthyosaur remains.
I know southern Sweden got both triassic as well as cretaceous land, and there are fossils there of cretaceous ocean birds, as well as prosauropod fragments.
So far Denmark got the only named dino among the Scandinavians, even if I think that was a bit of an overzealous move
All of this lack of mesozoic land does not reflect a lack of life at the time, all of Scandinavia + the Baltics formed a huge forested island, with big mountains along the center. Following that was tens of millions of years of erotion, culminated with the ice age, eroding everything down to ancient-most rock. At least, in Norway, we do find a lot of primordial fishes and such, tiny but exciting fossils.
(Archaeology regards human history btw, up until prehistory, where paleoanthropology takes over, as well as paleontology for non-human matters)
As a child I had one of those slate slabs with an imprint of a small ammonite in it. It was cool.
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Let me guess, Dinosaurs are a conspiracy theory to sell Jurassic Park.
God created dinosaurs as prototypes. Scientists claim a meteor asteroid crashed down on the planet destroying them all. Darwin would suggest some had evolved into early birds.Science also tries to find sub atomic parcels, dark matter and dark energy. It also says space is warped so space time may leak out through the plugholes in space. Passing through into one of the other 21 universes. So an early bird catches the wormhole.
Has mr. dempsey been evaluated?
Lol. I am not totally skint nor rich. Oh did you mean evaluated by the medical profession ?