Beast guessing

Rubecula · 03-10-2011 2:15pm #1

Ok here is the idea. I have a creature in mind. (Prehistoric but no further clue on that just yet.)

You guess what it is. Get it right and you can post with a creature.

Guess it with first clue you get five points. Clue two, Three points, clue three, one point. Keep your own score as it is for fun.

Clue 1.

Fossils of this reptile, have mainly been found in England and France.

Allosaur · 03-10-2011 3:01pm

Judging from whence the question originated and knowing your interest in all things marine.....

I'll go with Liopleurodon ferrox

Rubecula · 03-10-2011 3:21pm

Allosaur wrote: »

Judging from whence the question originated and knowing your interest in all things marine.....

I'll go with Liopleurodon ferrox

I made this too easy didn't I? Mr Five points Allosaur.:pac:

Allosaur · 03-10-2011 3:59pm

Not really Rubecula. I cheated. I guessed knowing your penchant for fishy things. It was a 50-50 between that and a ichthyosaur and seeing as I know very few Ichty species.....

Now I got to pick a beast......

Rubecula · 03-10-2011 4:15pm

Just call me rube it is easier to spell Al. :pac:

If I get another chance I think I will have to consider choosing something I don't know myself :pac::pac:

Allosaur · 03-10-2011 4:41pm

K. My turn.

Proof that Tyrannosaurs were on both sides of the Western Interior Seaway....

Rubecula · 03-10-2011 4:54pm

Nothing to do with post codes I assume :pac:

I am not really sure what you want to be totally honest so I will make a wild stab in the dark. (Obviously T.rex itself is not what you are looking for.)

Would it be Dryptosaurus ?

Allosaur · 03-10-2011 5:00pm

Rubecula wrote: »

Nothing to do with post codes I assume :pac:

I am not really sure what you want to be totally honest so I will make a wild stab in the dark. (Obviously T.rex itself is not what you are looking for.)

Would it be Daspletosaurus ?

Nope. He was found in the familiar band along the west side of the interior seaway along with Albert and Gorgo.

The one I'm thinnking of has a distinctly Eastern name. (That was clue #2)

Adam Khor · 03-10-2011 6:48pm

Appalachiosaurus?

Galvasean · 03-10-2011 8:19pm

Adam Khor wrote: »

Appalachiosaurus?

I was gonna guess that.

Great thread idea BTW.

Rubecula · 03-10-2011 9:23pm

Galvasean wrote: »

I was gonna guess that.

Great thread idea BTW.

Not sure how good the idea is myself, but it seemed a nice way to get folks to search for answers for themselves and perhaps learn something. Well it may work for me anyway:pac:

There used to be a dino named Laelaps I think it was related to Tyrannosaurs. But I am guessing a bit here. ( I did a quick search online... not so quick really...:pac:)

Yitzhak Rabin · 03-10-2011 10:01pm

Allosaur wrote: »

K. My turn.

Proof that Tyrannosaurs were on both sides of the Western Interior Seaway....

It's not tarbosaurus baator? I remember reading that that was the Asian t rex?

Adam Khor · 03-10-2011 10:21pm

Rubecula wrote: »

Not sure how good the idea is myself, but it seemed a nice way to get folks to search for answers for themselves and perhaps learn something. Well it may work for me anyway:pac:

There used to be a dino named Laelaps I think it was related to Tyrannosaurs. But I am guessing a bit here. ( I did a quick search online... not so quick really...:pac:)

Laelaps is now Dryptosaurus.

And yes, Tarbosaurus is an eastern Tyrannosaur, but Allosaur's question said Western Interior Sea, which was the shallow sea dividing North America in two halves- therefore, we should think of a North American tyrannosaur that lived in the eastern half.

I would say Appalachiosaurus- Dryptosaurus is seemingly a tyrannosauroid but its remains are way too incomplete to say if it was an actual tyrannosaurid.

Allosaur · 04-10-2011 7:38am

Adam Khor wrote: »

Appalachiosaurus?

That's the bunny

(Appalachains being the mountain chain in Eastern N. America, and some of the most beautiful scenery in the world.);)

Allosaur · 04-10-2011 7:43am

yekahS wrote: »

It's not tarbosaurus baator? I remember reading that that was the Asian t rex?

Nope. Thats a little too far east.
T. bataar, IIRC used to be called Tyrannosaurus without the suffix rex.

Rubecula · 04-10-2011 10:19am

Adam Khor wrote: »

Laelaps is now Dryptosaurus.

And yes, Tarbosaurus is an eastern Tyrannosaur, but Allosaur's question said Western Interior Sea, which was the shallow sea dividing North America in two halves- therefore, we should think of a North American tyrannosaur that lived in the eastern half.

I would say Appalachiosaurus- Dryptosaurus is seemingly a tyrannosauroid but its remains are way too incomplete to say if it was an actual tyrannosaurid.

Wonderful, I am learning all the time, I didn't know that.

Allosaur wrote: »

That's the bunny

(Appalachains being the mountain chain in Eastern N. America, and some of the most beautiful scenery in the world.);)

Well done Adam, I think that is 3 points to you, your turn to pose the question.

Scores so far:
Al 5
Adam 3

Galvasean · 04-10-2011 2:35pm

Allosaur wrote: »

Nope. Thats a little too far east.
T. bataar, IIRC used to be called Tyrannosaurus without the suffix rex.

Depends on who you ask. Some insist on calling it tyrannosaurus bataar. Personally, I would tend to agree.

Adam Khor · 04-10-2011 3:59pm

My turn then?

Ok. This small dinosaur was once believed to have been aquatic.

Galvasean · 04-10-2011 8:07pm

Compsognathus?

Adam Khor · 04-10-2011 8:09pm

Correct

Damn! Too easy. Ur turn :>

Galvasean · 04-10-2011 8:16pm

This dinosaur once went traveling with Christian Slater.

Adam Khor · 04-10-2011 8:21pm

Galvasean wrote: »

This dinosaur once went traveling with Christian Slater.

Pod? XD

Galvasean · 04-10-2011 8:55pm

Adam Khor wrote: »

Pod? XD

Scientific names only please :P

Adam Khor · 04-10-2011 9:13pm

Galvasean wrote: »

Scientific names only please :P

Pyroraptor olympius

Galvasean · 04-10-2011 9:29pm

Ah yeah, I reckon that's five points for you.
Your turn.

Adam Khor · 04-10-2011 9:32pm

Ok. This time its a non-dinosaur.

This creature is notorious for being one of the first and largest venomous top predators of all time.

Galvasean · 04-10-2011 9:34pm

Megalania AKA Varanus prisca?

Adam Khor · 04-10-2011 9:35pm

Nope. Think older.

Allosaur · 05-10-2011 7:31am

A Therocephalian?

Galvasean · 05-10-2011 2:23pm

Ooh ooh! Euchambersia!!?

Adam Khor · 05-10-2011 5:46pm

Haha noo, think bigger.

Rubecula · 06-10-2011 5:05am

Rubidgea?

Adam Khor · 06-10-2011 6:16pm

Rubidgea was venomous? :O

But no, its not the answer...

Galvasean · 23-10-2011 10:48pm

Well, I'm stumped...

Adam Khor · 24-10-2011 5:44pm

Galvasean wrote: »

Well, I'm stumped...

Giving up r u?

Galvasean · 28-10-2011 12:02pm

Yyyyyyyyyyup.

Adam Khor · 28-10-2011 6:58pm

Galvasean wrote: »

Yyyyyyyyyyup.

Ok. It's Megawhaitsia patrichae, a giant therapsid (estimated to be about as big as a tiger), possibly a therocephalian and known from a jaw found in Russia; it seems that the thing was venomous and filled the niche of gorgonopsids as top predator, in a place where gorgonopsids seemingly didn´t exist.

Allosaur · 31-10-2011 8:51am

Ok, what next.

Rubecula · 31-10-2011 11:49am

Allosaur wrote: »

Ok, what next.

As nobody got the right answer I think Adam does another one. But I leave that up to you guys.

Adam Khor · 08-11-2011 7:19pm

An easy one.

A skull of this creature was thought for many years to be the skull of an actual dragon.

Mickeroo · 08-11-2011 7:48pm

Wooly Rhino?

Adam Khor · 08-11-2011 8:03pm

Mickeroo wrote: »

Wooly Rhino?

Correct

Your turn

Mickeroo · 08-11-2011 8:07pm

Ok, Godzilla fought a descendent of this guy on quite a few occasions :pac:

Adam Khor · 08-11-2011 8:10pm

Mickeroo wrote: »

Ok, Godzilla fought a descendent of this guy on quite a few occasions :pac:

Australopithecus?

XD

No, they were more like running for their lives...

Mickeroo · 08-11-2011 8:17pm

Adam Khor wrote: »

Australopithecus? XD

No, they were more like running for their lives...

Nope

Adam Khor · 08-11-2011 8:18pm

Mickeroo wrote: »

Nope

Not fair, I never saw any Godzilla movies except for Roland Emmerich's...

I do remember that some of his enemies looked like/were based on Pteranodon and Ankylosaurus... any of these?

Mickeroo · 08-11-2011 8:20pm

Adam Khor wrote: »

Not fair, I never saw any Godzilla movies except for Roland Emmerich's...

I do remember that some of his enemies looked like/were based on Pteranodon and Ankylosaurus... any of these?

Curses!! Ankylosaurus it is.

Was referring to this guy: Anguirus

Adam Khor · 08-11-2011 8:22pm

Mickeroo wrote: »

Curses!! Ankylosaurus it is.

Was referring to this guy: Anguirus

Precisely the one I remembered XD

Let's see... this dinosaur was once said to have been semi-aquatic. When threatened at least.

Mickeroo · 08-11-2011 8:29pm

Adam Khor wrote: »

Precisely the one I remembered XD

Let's see... this dinosaur was once said to have been semi-aquatic. When threatened at least.

Really longshot considering the size of the guy, but a Brachiosaurus maybe?

Adam Khor · 08-11-2011 8:32pm

Mickeroo wrote: »

Really longshot considering the size of the guy, but a Brachiosaurus maybe?

This was said of Brachiosaurus as well, correct, but its not the creature I had in mind.

Allosaur · 09-11-2011 8:42am

Is it a Mosasaur?

No it isn't ignore this answer. Its morning time. I don't do those.

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