It's my birthday, I want dinosaurs.

[Dannyalcatraz]

View attachment 100130Historical footage of the last T-Rex serving his country in WWII

“Sgt. Rock, I’d like you to meet Cpl. Tyrone R. Carnosaur.”

 

[Shades of Eternity]

he's a fine chap, but we need to keep him away from the guinea pig club.

he might get the wrong idea.

 

[Tonguez]

The animals certainly existed; the problem is that two people gave their copy of that animal different names at the same time - and knew they were doing it.

"Apatosaurus" won out by The Rules for Naming Fossils. But I still use "Brontosaurus" for any of the big sauropods that I don't remember the right name offhand.
Maybe because I watched The Flintstones as a kid and still want to find that XL slab of Bronto ribs that tipped over Fred's car.

Oh I agree. Bronto is much cool than Appaty, so I too stick to calling them Brontos. The palaeontologist should just give in to public sentiment and declare Bronto official

 

[trappedslider]

 

[Shades of Eternity]

Thanks all.

This is something that's been bugging me for a while and am wondering if anybody knows

How do paleontologists determine which creature is in which ecosystem?

Like if I do a temperate hills in the jurassic, which dinosaurs are native to that region?

 

[MNblockhead]

Lots of general resources freely available, but not much that a DM can easily use as-is to create random encounter tables.

Fact Monster has an easy-to-read summary of habitats in Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous periods with a couple examples of dinosaurs that could be found in each ecosystem.

https://www.factmonster.com/dk/encyclopedia/science/dinosaur-habitats

I'm not sure how accurate the following page it, but it has a nice graphic and breif descriptions of various prehistoric habitats with representative dinosaurs.

http://prehlife.weebly.com/habitat.html

By far the best page I found was at the ThoughtCo website:

https://www.thoughtco.com/where-did-dinosaurs-live-1091965

But if you are really dedicated, the University of Hong Kong has an awesome looking six-week on-line course on Dinosaur Ecosystems that they are offering for FREE. Next session starts on October 3rd: https://www.edx.org/course/dinosaur-ecosystems

 

[Richards]

Q: What's more fearsome than tyrannosaurs?

A:


Johnathan

 

[Shades of Eternity]

there is nothing more awesome then t-rex in f15s.

let me try something comparable


https://www.keenandgraev.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/dino-riders-pixark.jpg

 

[Tonguez]

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or this - coming in 2019....

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

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or this - coming in 2019....

Adolfsaurus?