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Rex Fan 684
MemberCompsognathusOct-05-2013 8:21 PMA 10 meter long dinosaur was found recently in Alberta. No species has been given, but I'd assume it's a hadrosaur, although it might be a tyrannosaur. Here's the pic...
[img]http://i.cbc.ca/1.1876999.1380834393!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/16x9_620/pipeline-dinosaur.jpg[/img]
Here's the link to the article as well...
[url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/massive-dinosaur-fossil-unearthed-by-alberta-pipeline-crew-1.1876996]10 Meter Dinosaur[/url]
Hope you like it. I found it very interesting.
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The forgotten king
MemberCompsognathusOct-05-2013 9:57 PMThat fossil is beautiful
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Lord Vader
MemberTyrannosaurus RexOct-06-2013 5:47 AMThat's pretty cool. Especially because it's Canadain.
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tyrant963
MemberCompsognathusOct-06-2013 7:21 AMI agreed it is amazing just looking at it plus i think the fossil is some kind of tail? In think they have to dig more? Any way welcome back Rex Fan!
Deltadromeus
MemberCompsognathusOct-06-2013 8:16 AMLooks a lot like a hadrosaur. Wouldn't suprise me
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Rex Fan 684
MemberCompsognathusOct-06-2013 9:45 AMThanks Tyrant.
I'm pretty sure it's a spine/tail. Based on the size, appearance, and location, it is almost certainly a hadrosaur. Parasaurolophus, Edmontosaurus, and Corythosaurus are all possibilities. But there is a chance it's a tyrannosaur. I only say that because of the size and location. Albertosaurus, Daspletosaurus, and Gorgosaurus are the best candidates. Can't wait to find out for sure though.
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DinoSteve93
MemberCompsognathusOct-06-2013 11:30 AMCool fossil.
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Deltadromeus
MemberCompsognathusOct-06-2013 2:12 PMSeems very much like a hadrosaur tail. You can see the extended vertebra, I'm pretty sure hadrosaurs have that. Also, I know its a tail because the end gets pretty small
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DinoSteve93
MemberCompsognathusOct-06-2013 2:49 PMIt seems a Hadrosaur tail to me too!
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MemberCompsognathusOct-06-2013 3:57 PMWelcome back Rex Fan!
Hadrosaurine, probably. It looks like a hadrosaur tail and lower back to me.
And @ Rex Fan, size and location isn't the best way to make a guess on species. That's why the huge toe bone found in Montana(?) was attributed to a 50 foot Tyrannosaurus, despite the fact that it was too flat and wide. I think the people who did that are also the people that attributed the late cretaceous pliosaur skeleton to "the last stegosaur" and a huge tree to being the femur of Bruhathkayosaurus.
Rex Fan 684
MemberCompsognathusOct-06-2013 4:29 PMYeah, I know. But size and location help narrow down the candidates. I think we are all in agreement that it's probably a hadrosaur. I'll guess a sub-adult Edmontosaurus, but that's just a guess.
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Deltadromeus
MemberCompsognathusOct-06-2013 6:39 PMIt seems like a 10-15 foot tail, so that means a dinosaur about 30 feet long. But! it see,s like it is missing vertebra, I did a count and I only found 21. Compare it to a T. rex who has 42 (I'm pretty sure) and a Sinosauropteryx who has 60 something. It has too few. Plus, its tail goes out, so at least another two feet. Overall, if it is a hadrosaur, I'm betting that if the tail was comeplete, it would be about 20 feet long at least, so were probably talking an adult Edmontosaurus or something bigger.
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Rex Fan 684
MemberCompsognathusOct-06-2013 6:44 PMWell, every estimate I've seen says 33 ft(10 meters). But I see no reason why it can't be a little bigger. The many species of Edmontosaurus tend to be in the 30-40 ft rang, so this falls right in there. There are many species of hadrosaurs though.
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Deltadromeus
MemberCompsognathusOct-06-2013 7:01 PMIts not a hadrosaur and it has got to be bigger than 33 feet. Its probably a theropod by the looks of the tail. Hadrosaur tail vs the new find
Hadrosaur tail
[img]http://museumvictoria.com.au/pages/8750/mm-hadrosaur-skeleton-big.png[/img]
New find
[img]http://i.cbc.ca/1.1876999.1380834393!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/16x9_620/pipeline-dinosaur.jpg[/img]
Its pretty clear to me that it is certainly not a hadrosaur's
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Rex Fan 684
MemberCompsognathusOct-06-2013 7:10 PMRemember, this is a spine and tail section. They'll probably release the species at some point. I contacted Jack Horner about it and I'm awaiting his response.
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Deltadromeus
MemberCompsognathusOct-06-2013 7:14 PMIts only tail. If it was spine, we would see an indication of a pelvis. I'm going to find out what type of dinosaur it is, and then I'll go into more math
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Deltadromeus
MemberCompsognathusOct-06-2013 7:20 PMAfter some searching, this is the closest thing I've found to the find
[img]http://qilong.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/acrocanthosaurus_atokensis_skeleton.jpg[/img]
Do we know what time period its from?
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Rex Fan 684
MemberCompsognathusOct-06-2013 7:27 PMThey didn't say, but it's from Alberta and Acrocanthosaurus isn't. It's from the USA. No fossils of Acro have ever been found in Canada and there aren't any theories stating it may have lived there.
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Deltadromeus
MemberCompsognathusOct-06-2013 7:33 PMThat doesn't mean it didn't make its way there. Siamotyrannus practically had no food source found in Thialand, but in china at the same time, there is plenty of food. I think Siamotyrannus would have made his way to china and gotten some of the nom noms. Also, T. rex spanned about that far, and Acrocanthosaurus is about as long, so why doesn't it also live in Alberta? It seems perfectly possible to me
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Rex Fan 684
MemberCompsognathusOct-06-2013 7:39 PMEarly-Mid Cretaceous Canada already had top predators. Early tyrannosaurs roamed there. And Acro had plenty of food, so why leave?
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Deltadromeus
MemberCompsognathusOct-06-2013 7:45 PMWell, why do you think the tyrannosaurs where small? Because some thing big like Acrocanthosaurus was there. Yutyrannus and Sinotyrannus lived at a similar time, and they where pretty big, so why wasn't the North America Tyrannosaurs?
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Rex Fan 684
MemberCompsognathusOct-06-2013 7:54 PMEither way, if it was Acro, it would need the extended vertebrae...
[img]http://www.wikidino.com/wp-content/uploads/Acrocanthosaurus-tavari.jpg[/img]
[img]http://images.wikia.com/dinosaurking/images/9/93/Acrocanthosaurus_skeleton.jpg[/img]
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