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TheDinosaurDave

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I love my Scifi, my Lego, and my dinosaur fossils. I have made almost 100 lego fossils.
You can also find me on Blue Sky - @thedinosaurdave.bsky.social

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TheDinosaurDave, to LEGO
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This week for #Fossilfriday we have another #Guess that #Lego #Fossil.

This one I would rate as hard. This mid sized marine reptile is known from Colombia, South America.

Reminder: hide your answer behind a content warning. This will allow others to guess without a hint. I will post the answer tomorrow (and to anyone who guesses correctly).

This was designed by Me

TheDinosaurDave, to random
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Im doing some fossicking at Richmond QLD Digsite 1
After a few hours, this is what i have to show for it
Who can guess what they are (spoilers i have no ide myself haha)

Close up of one ofnthe finds
Close up of a possible belemite fossil
No idea, maybe bones (shrugs)

rdearman, to random
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Bored? Try this: Make a bucket list

TheDinosaurDave,
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@rdearman ngl, in more or less finished my bucket list atm
If i had to do one it would be

  • Finish any of the books im working on
  • sleep

Thats about it

TheDinosaurDave, (edited ) to Wyoming
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#Dinosaurs in #Doctor #Who, who would have guessed...
Lets take a look at what they show, and break down what we can see.
They say they are 150m years in the past, in #Wyoming

In this image we can clearly see a #Brachiosaurus.
As far as I know, its been found in #Colorado which is close enough for it to migrate there.

It also looks fairly accurate for a #Giraffatitan adjacent species.

In the background, although harder to see are probably #Apatosaurs, or #Diplodocus.

Over all 10/10

TheDinosaurDave,
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@mike its part of the first 3 seconds and plays no role in the plot or I would have left it a week.

TheDinosaurDave,
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@llewelly ikr

TheDinosaurDave,
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@mike @llewelly awesome to know

TheDinosaurDave, to LEGO
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No guess that #Lego fossil this week.
I went to the #Age #of #Dinosaurs museum in #Winton today and am too tired to sort it out
Sorry.
Plus side, here's some holotype images for you :D

Ferrodraco skull
Ferrodraco neck and wing
Diamantinasaurus feet, legs, ribs

TheDinosaurDave,
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@gay_ornithischians how about this :D

TheDinosaurDave,
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@gay_ornithischians you can look through all my images here - https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Ml-yvsz33Ph2DmK3_1KkSx9Ybj4IiS1N

TheDinosaurDave,
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@llewelly @gay_ornithischians fun fact, the pose they are in in that photo is how they were found.
Here is a look at some sauropod tracks
If u look closely, you can see mud pillars in the middle of the rear tracks after the mud stuck to its foot as it stepped up
If you look super closely, u might be able to make out a wall of mud at the front of one of the tracks where the animal slid a little as it was walking

TheDinosaurDave, to LEGO
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This weeks is

The holotype was found in the late 1800s in Quarry 13 at Como Bluff, Wyoming.

In 1889, Othniel Marsh described it as a new species, Morosaurus lentus

In the 20th century it was found to be the same species as one named by his rival, Edward Drinker Cope.

This resulted in Morosaurus lentus being renamed to Camarasaurus lentus.

This was designed by Timcraft_06 on reddit

Camarasaurus lentus (Marsh, 1889) sauropod dinosaur from the Jurassic of Utah, USA (public display, CM 11338, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA). This is a near-complete juvenile sauropod dinosaur in the original fluvial sandstone matrix - such skeletons are extremely rare. Classification: Animalia, Chordata, Vertebrata, Dinosauria, Sauropodomorpha, Camarasauridae Stratigraphy: Brushy Basin Member, Morrison Formation, Upper Jurassic, 151 Ma Locality: Carnegie Quarry, Dinosaur National Monument, northeastern Utah, USA Sauropod dinosaurs were the largest terrestrial animals ever. They all have the same basic body plan: large body with four walking legs, very long neck & tail, and a small head relative to body size. Sauropods were herbivores, and are often perceived as holding their heads & necks up high to reach vegetation normally out of reach to other organisms. Modern reconstructions of many sauropod species depict them with heads and necks held close to the horizontal, or at low angles above the horizontal.

TheDinosaurDave, to LEGO
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This week for we have another that .

This one I would rate as medium. This mid sized Macronarians is known from North America

Reminder: hide your answer behind a content warning. This will allow others to guess without a hint. I will post the answer tomorrow (and to anyone who guesses correctly).

This was designed by Timcraft_06 on reddit

TheDinosaurDave,
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@aRubes yep. It comes down to how awesome the design is. This one is easily one of the best out there.

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My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

In 2004 I played with a book idea but never took it to a publisher. I did 100 draft drawings for the proposal (never completed), here is just one more: Spinosaurus (old anatomical proportions) eating a Carcharodontosaurus.

TheDinosaurDave,
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@BobNicholls kinda want to see that book :D This is amazing

TheDinosaurDave, to LEGO
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This weeks is

In 1979-80, partial remains of twelve stegosaurian individuals were found near Zigong China.

In 1982, they were named and described by Dong Zhiming, Tang Zilu and Zhou Shiwu as Huayangosaurus taibaii.

Some replicas show it with a Kentrosaurus style shoulder spike, others do not. I could only find an image of one without.

Original Lego model by Kongzilla, modified by myself to represent a new species.

Huayangosaurus reconstruction displayed in Hong Kong

TheDinosaurDave, to LEGO
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This week for we have another that .

This one I would rate as medium. This small Thyreophora is known from China.

Reminder: hide your answer behind a content warning. This will allow others to guess without a hint. I will post the answer tomorrow (and to anyone who guesses correctly).

This was designed by Kongzilla and modified by me into something new

TheDinosaurDave,
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@llewelly nope, starts with a H

TheDinosaurDave,
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@jfstudiospaleoart nope, and nope, but close, hint h

jfstudiospaleoart, to random
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been thinking about doing a drawing of owl tyrannosaurs. is that as stupid as is sounds, or is it at least possible for t. rec or any other large theropod to possess facial discs of that sort?

TheDinosaurDave,
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@jfstudiospaleoart what would be cool is a t rex, whose arms have peacock tail like feathers making it look insanely huge when extended. Just a rough scaley head, neck, and then insanely long feathers poking off their arms reaching down to the ground and 5+ meters wide.
A balance of cool, terrifying (if its roaring and the mouths open and drooling), and these insanely long feathers on each arm making it look very silly.
Now imagine one, arms feathers extended, roaring like Rexy at the end of JW

TheDinosaurDave,
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@jfstudiospaleoart thats awesome :D

TheDinosaurDave, to random
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To any of the palaeontologists on here.
If humans disappeared, assuming no evidence of us is left, but all the animals in our zoos, reserves, and other places like that, get free and breed and diversify.
How do you think that palaeontologists 1m years from now would explain the extinction like event and nigh magical spread of animals all of the world. Like kangaroo fossils suddenly appearing in North America, etc.
How would you explain it? What kind of evidence would you look for?

TheDinosaurDave,
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@llewelly @freequaybuoy - to be slightly more clear, i mean no evidence of mines, buildings, roads etc. There would still be potential fossils of humans, but no evidence of our technology or population explosion. If that makes sense. I know im kinda muddled on the whole thing haha

TheDinosaurDave,
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@freequaybuoy @llewelly i dont think the continents are reprocessed every 500m years, if they were, we wouldn't have 3.5b yo Stromatolite fossils in Australia. I think you are thinking of the ocean floor, which is reprocessed every few hundred million years or so, depending on where it is and what not

TheDinosaurDave,
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@14mission yeah. The thing is, i know the evidence of us, like our mines and structures like foundations and roads and stuff will last a very long time, even if it's a limited area. Like some mines could, in theory, last until the earrh is destroyed by the sun. Metal will disappear, but if its protected enough, like some of our super deep mines, then they should more or less last forever.
Road foundations are another thing that will last an insanely long time.

nash, to random
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There are no Peculiar Holidays this coming week, but the following week (4/21 through 4/27) there are 3, and they're all quite delightful:

• Tuesday 4/23 is Trout Faire 🐟🎪(cc @loren )
• Wednesday 4/24 is Dance of the Star 🌀⭐
• Saturday 4/27 is Harmony Skunkmas 🦨🎵

TheDinosaurDave,
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@nash @loren If you are Australian, there is one to consider, ANZAC day is the 25th.

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