tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35831140.post816127567789196468..comments2023-10-25T20:46:55.930+08:00Comments on Weapon of Mass Imagination: Corythosaur best of my "current" abilitiestraumadorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00387315561167115253noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35831140.post-24260488850188661412011-04-19T13:33:46.822+08:002011-04-19T13:33:46.822+08:00Albertonykus- Thanks for looking that up man.
Wel...Albertonykus- Thanks for looking that up man.<br /><br />Well first lesson I've learned fossil hunting over the years appearing to be uniform and actually being uniform are different things. However I suspect you are right in this case.<br /><br />As for adding stuff to my guy purly for aesthetics, can't do this time (normally I'd be game... you know me and my non conventions :P ). This fellow ultimately will (hopefully) be used for an actual science publication though. So it is up to my palaeontologist whether Lambeosaurines had dorsal decorations or not. At moment I'm thinking not, but we'll see.<br /><br />I still suspect everyone has been putting them on their Hadrosaurs for the past decade simply due to liking them on Sauropods. Leonardo is just a happy coincidence.traumadorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00387315561167115253noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35831140.post-79700967008136741602011-04-19T10:03:07.484+08:002011-04-19T10:03:07.484+08:00The article is here, but it doesn't say anythi...The article is here, but it doesn't say anything on this in the text: http://animals.howstuffworks.com/dinosaurs/dinosaur-leonardo.htm The smudges do look fairly consistent in shape, spacing, and size, so I'd suspect there was something there instead of just artifacts of preservation. <br /><br />I was also told that there's another hadrosaur that shows such structures, but no one appears to remember the exact specimen. Interestingly, this one has shorter ridges than Leonardo's.<br /><br />I think at this point you could get away with not putting them on lambeosaurines. Personally though, I do like them aesthetically.Albertonykushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00345306530772709064noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35831140.post-51351613773129334782011-04-18T23:48:03.984+08:002011-04-18T23:48:03.984+08:00Albertonykus- Interesting.
Is there an article ac...Albertonykus- Interesting.<br /><br />Is there an article accompanying this photo? Due to the small size all I'm confident I'm seeing are the ends of the neural spines poking up out of the tendons and legaments. There are smudge LIKE things in the rock above this, but I'm not confident they are actual trace fossils (again due to the resolution of the photo).<br /><br /><br />Not that I'm saying I don't trust you. I did notice EVERYONE drawing Leonardo was putting knobs on his back (Bakker included). So I was wondering if they knew something I don't.<br /><br />The next question though is this a difference between Hadrosaurines and Lambeosaurines. There are dozens of Lambeosaurines with skin impressions (just from Alberta alone), and not a single one I've looked at has anything off the back. Mind you they might have been prepped off in many cases due to a lack of expecting anything there.<br /><br />Still this is where I'm at. Do I put something on the Corythosaur or not?traumadorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00387315561167115253noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35831140.post-21821127666206643162011-04-18T13:15:39.622+08:002011-04-18T13:15:39.622+08:00Your suspicions were correct, it's Leonardo th...Your suspicions were correct, it's Leonardo that has them: http://static.howstuffworks.com/gif/dinosaur-leonardo-1.jpgAlbertonykushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00345306530772709064noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35831140.post-84327055576234802412011-04-18T12:38:17.488+08:002011-04-18T12:38:17.488+08:00Thanks for the recognition! I don't know as mu...Thanks for the recognition! I don't know as much about hadrosaurs as I'd like to though, so I'll ask around and see if anyone knows better.Albertonykushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00345306530772709064noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35831140.post-19046929081748516342011-04-18T04:06:52.214+08:002011-04-18T04:06:52.214+08:00Albertonykus- Coming from you that means something...Albertonykus- Coming from you that means something. I was expecting if anyone who reads this blog would know it'd be you ;)<br /><br />However yeah I can't find any evidence for back orienimentation. The closest I can gather is that with the discovery of those spines on Diplodociods everyone started putting them on all Dinosaurs (same way dermal osteoderms popped up everyway after Carnotaurus).<br /><br />Dinorider- Thanks. There is a Parasaurolophus in the works too ;)<br /><br />Trish- The Parasaurolophus neck fin started with Charles Knight as far as I can. I'm not sure it makes sense to me. I would think it'd restrict neck mobility.<br /><br />It is much like the modern thing of the "no-neck" Hadrosaur, where the back hump directly connects to the head. How could the poor thing gets its head around to eat plants.traumadorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00387315561167115253noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35831140.post-23631159594679709992011-04-18T03:01:51.833+08:002011-04-18T03:01:51.833+08:00I've always wondered about those, eh, "fi...I've always wondered about those, eh, "fin thingies" as well. I'm especially curious if there's any hard evidence for the crazy "fin attached to the back of the horn" Parasaurolophus reconstructions that were so popular in early paleoart (see "Fantasia" for an example).Trishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08108657342054862720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35831140.post-65936754453517414002011-04-17T22:50:33.012+08:002011-04-17T22:50:33.012+08:00liking the new look!liking the new look!Dinorider d'Andoandorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02289450500493424952noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35831140.post-86519063972563678722011-04-17T15:37:07.754+08:002011-04-17T15:37:07.754+08:00Good question about the dorsal ornaments. I've...Good question about the dorsal ornaments. I've always thought that it was present on one of the many duckbill mummies, but now I can't find any info on that.Albertonykushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00345306530772709064noreply@blogger.com