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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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This weeks is

In 1985 fossil hunter Patrick McSherry, found the remains of a stegosaur, at the ranch of S.B. Smith in Johnson County, Wyoming.

Together with Ronald G. Mjos and Jeff Parker of Western Paleontological Laboratories, Inc. and paleontologist Dee Hall of Brigham Young University they extracted the fossil.

Originally thought to be a Stegosaurus fossil, Clifford Miles recognised that they belonged to a species new to science.

It was named in 2001

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This week for #Fossilfriday we have another #Guess that #Lego #Fossil.

This one I would rate as medium. This large stegosaurid is closely related to stegosaurus, but isnt stegosaurus.

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 a new species.

TheDinosaurDave, (edited )
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@llewelly nope, hint h

TheDinosaurDave, (edited )
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@llewelly same until i looked into it.

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Ceratosaurus was originally found and excavated by farmer Marshall Parker Felch in 1883-1884

In 1884, Othniel Charles Marsh officially named it Ceratosaurus.

In 1898-99 it was sent, with Marshs other fossils, to the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, DC.

Between 1911-18 it was prepared and in 1920 was reexamined and redescribed by Charles Gilmore.

It was soon mounted on display. This display stood for almost 100 years.

Cast of Ceratosaurus from the Cleveland Lloyd Quarry, Utah, on display at the Natural History Museum of Utah, Salt Lake City.

TheDinosaurDave,
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@mike yeah i get that. The issue cimes down ti ceratosaurs also having those horns above their eyes. Theyre not as prominent as carnos, but its hard to do a middle ground between them.

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@mike one of my other choices was brackets, the issue is the skulls 1 wide and its hard to do a wedge shape to represent those ridges

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This week for we have another that .

This one I would rate as easy. This is theropod is one of the most well 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 me.

TheDinosaurDave, to random
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As I've been doing my roadtrip ive been doing the odd tikytoky thing to explain to my niece what im doing.
If you do the tiky and toky then check it out

https://www.tiktok.com/@kronosauruskev/video/7373412748610374913

TheDinosaurDave, to world
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spoiler free review

After watching the first three episodes, i can safely say that CT is right up there with Camp Cretaceous as some of the best JP content since the original movies.

The way they dive into the dumpster fire of a world made by the movies and correct their mistakes is brilliant and i cant wait for more.

Id rate it 8/10

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From the 1920s, Soviet scientists found fragmentary fossils in Dzharakuduk, Uzbekistan. All they could tell is it was some kind of ceratopsian.

In 1988, Lev Aleksandrovich Nesov published about these fragments naming them Turanoceratops tardabilis. But due to lack of description it was deemed a nomen nudum.

In 1989, Nesov et al formally named, with proper description, Turanoceratops. This was based on a partial, damaged, maxilla.

Jaw fragments of T. tardabilis from the Upper Cretaceous (Turonian) Bissekty Formation of Dzharakuduk, Uzbekistan. a – c CCMGE 251/ 12457 (holotype), incomplete left maxilla in medial ( a ), ventral ( b ), and posterior ( c ) views. d , e ZIN PH 303/16, fragment of right maxilla in lateral ( d ) and posterior ( e ) views. f – h CCMGE 255/12457, incomplete predentary in dorsal ( j ), lateral ( k ), and ventral ( l ) views. ect ectopterygoid facet, ft functional tooth, rt replacing tooth. Scale bars equal 10 mm

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

This one I would rate as medium. This is small sized ceratopsian.

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 to a new species by me

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Dems Call for Alito to Recuse Himself From Jan. 6 Cases Over Upside-Down Flag

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/dems-call-samuel-alito-recuse-flag-1235024963/

TheDinosaurDave,
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@br00t4c both him and thomas should, but they wont. There is zero consequences for not doing it, so why would they? Theyre the ultimate karens in this scenario and its destroying democracy..

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This weeks is

In 1994, Colombian paleontologist María Páramo, published the details of the, at the time, most complete mosasauridae from South America.

The original skull was 47cm in length, and it was estimated to be 5m long. Since then a far larger, 87cm skull has been found. This implies that it could grow far larger, comparable to other larger mosasaurids.

Skull and first cervical vertebrae of Yaguarasaurus. Geological Museum José Royo y Gómez, Bogotá

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It's official. My 7yo's Lego skills have surpassed mine.

He made this brilliant crab with just 25 pieces. (100% his own creation.)

TheDinosaurDave,
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@lazysupper from one lego master to the next generation, very impressive

TheDinosaurDave,
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@lazysupper Same. I design dinosaurs on a small scale with limited bits. You can see them below.
Most are palm of the hand sized builds.

TheDinosaurDave,
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@lazysupper - if u want the build instructions for some of them check this out
https://rebrickable.com/users/Spinobreaker/mocs/

TheDinosaurDave, (edited )
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@lazysupper, i hope you and the kids really enjoy building them. They're designed to be any colour, as dinosaurs (and other reptiles) have far better colour vision than we do, so they could be any colour.

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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,
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@llewelly all good, and nope, its not a pliosaur, but its part of another marine reptile group

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)

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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

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