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New Discovery in Japan!

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Sci-Fi King25

MemberAllosaurusJul-14-2015 4:13 PM

For the first time, a large carnivore was found in Japan! Here's the discovery-

 

 

They say the creature lived about 81 million years ago and about 10 meters in height.

 

The article itself is pretty short, but here it is-

 

First Fossils of Large-Size Carnivorous Dinosaur Found in Japan

 

 

“Banana oil.”- George Takei, Gigantis: The Fire Monster

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shambs

MemberCompsognathusJul-14-2015 6:29 PM

I thought of tyrannosaurids as a North American group of dinosaurs, with the exception of Tarbosaurus (and not counting the ancestors as Guanlong or dilong). Indeed a fantastic discovery!

Something Real

MemberTyrannosaurus RexJul-14-2015 7:16 PM

SCI-FI KING25 - Wow! That is fantastic! I have a feeling that the 10m "height" is supposed to be "length" as Mr. Miyata compared it to the 5-12m expressions found amongst American Tyrannosaurids. Can you imagine a 33ft tall Tyrannosaurus?! YIKES! This was a very neat find! Thank you so much for sharing this with us! :)

Rex Fan 684

MemberCompsognathusJul-15-2015 7:36 AM

Cool.

 

And Shambs, there are actually a lot of Asian tyrannosaurs...

Tarbosaurus

Alioramus

Zhuchengtyrannus

Guanlong

Dilong

Yutyrannus

Sinotyrannus

Probably others I forgot

 

And they've also been found in Europe(Eotyrannus)

 

Tyrannosaurus practically rulled the whole Northern Hempisphere

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Saitama

MemberCompsognathusJul-15-2015 9:28 AM

^ Daspletosaurus 

I don't know what to put here 

Rex Fan 684

MemberCompsognathusJul-15-2015 10:55 AM

Daspletosaurus was North American

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bioniczillafan04

MemberCompsognathusJul-15-2015 11:55 AM

Who knows it could have swam the oceans, breathed fire, had spines on it's back, and reeked havok on everything. ;) ;)

Phorusrhacos

MemberCompsognathusJul-15-2015 2:39 PM

If it's a new genus, I wonder what they will name it. Nihonotyrannus or Nipponotyranus maybe? 

Saitama

MemberCompsognathusJul-15-2015 4:49 PM

oh yeah I guess confused it with something else 

I don't know what to put here 

shambs

MemberCompsognathusJul-15-2015 9:31 PM

@Rex,

Yes, you are right. In addition, according to Wikipedia (which is not an entirely reliable source) tyrannosaurs existed in South America and Australia. Is that true?

"Fossils of tyrannosauroids have been recovered on what are now the continents of North America, Europe, Asia, South America and Australia."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyrannosauroidea

Although I think that this article is about Tyrannosauroidea superfamily, and not about Tyrannosauridae family.

Phorusrhacos

MemberCompsognathusJul-15-2015 11:04 PM

SHAMBS: The statement about tyrannosauroid fossil finds refers to the Superfamily as a whole rather than just Tyrannosauridae (Tyrannosaurus, Tarbosaurus, Gorgosaurus, etc.). It takes in account Proceratosauridae, Coeluridae, and several other members that don't fall into the aforementioned families. Though the only members that come from South America and Australia are members of Megaraptora, which has a disputed ancestry, so they might not be tyrannosaurs at all. 

Therizinosaurus Rex(aka Kaijusaurs)

MemberCompsognathusJul-16-2015 7:37 AM

Cool find.

Therizinosaurus for JW2!

Dynamosaurus Imperiosus/ Raptorexxx 700

MemberCompsognathusJul-16-2015 7:57 AM

Well that's enough for me to infer that Tyrannosaurs were pretty widely ditributed :D

Dynamosaurus Imperiosus/ Raptorexxx 700

MemberCompsognathusJul-16-2015 7:58 AM

Well that's enough for me to infer that Tyrannosaurs were pretty widely ditributed :D

Gojira2K

MemberCompsognathusJul-19-2015 4:27 PM

Awesome! The more giant carnivores the better.

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futurepaleontologist1

MemberCompsognathusJul-23-2015 4:20 PM

See but over has to remember that the largest of the Asian Tyrannosaurs (that being Tarbosaurus) is comparable in size to Abelisaurus. Such an animal only stands at about six feet tall, kind of retaining a reverse therapod posture. If this animal is indeed it's own species, it's gonna be in a league of it's own

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