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A fourth Kem Kem giant theropod?

Adam Khor · 2012-09-23 22:35:29

Fourth as in, after Carcharodontosaurus, Spinosaurus and Deltadromeus. Its only a measly skull bone tho so it could be anything, really. http://www.app.pan.pl/archive/published/app57/app20110043.pdf

23-09-2012 10:35PM

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Fourth as in, after Carcharodontosaurus, Spinosaurus and Deltadromeus. Its only a measly skull bone tho so it could be anything, really.

http://www.app.pan.pl/archive/published/app57/app20110043.pdf

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#2 24-09-2012 09:26PM

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Scary scary place. I can't think of many places with a higher volume of things that could eat you (the late Cretaceous inland sea being one).

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#3 24-09-2012 11:27PM

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Galvasean wrote: »

Scary scary place. I can't think of many places with a higher volume of things that could eat you (the late Cretaceous inland sea being one).

Miocene-Pliocene sea was rather scary as well (Megalodon, killer sperm whales, giant mako, shark-toothed "dolphins", giant killer walruses, sea crocodiles, and even giant sea birds with "teeth" and giant penguins may count if you're afraid of birds XD)

Also, who knows what kind of horrors lived in the deepest sea at the time...

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#4 24-09-2012 11:33PM

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Triassic Kraken? :pac:

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#5 24-09-2012 11:37PM

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Adam Khor wrote: »

Also, who knows what kind of horrors lived in the deepest sea at the time...

They're still finding weird ones down there :pac: so who knows what has survived since that period?

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#6 24-09-2012 11:46PM

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the_syco wrote: »

They're still finding weird ones down there :pac: so who knows what has survived since that period?

True

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#7 31-10-2012 08:51AM

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They named it already. It's called Sauroniops pachytholus. Sauroniops meaning "eye of Sauron".

Unfortunately, not even this can change the fact that it's only a measly bone from above the eye socket. So, no one knows what it looked like. Much like Sauron I suposse. But I still hate it when they name things after such miserable remains.

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#8 05-11-2012 12:19AM

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Picture of the critter by Emiliano Trocco:

http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/dinosaur/2012/11/dinosaur-bump-belies-new-species/

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#9 05-11-2012 12:24AM

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Galvasean wrote: »

Picture of the critter by Emiliano Trocco:

http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/dinosaur/2012/11/dinosaur-bump-belies-new-species/

Poor Spinosaurus

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