Leyster's Collection (updated 13/09/24)

[Leyster]

@ceratopsian I remember saving pictures of PNSO Triceratops alongside the Vitae Sinoceratops from your thread when they were released!

@Halichoeres Uhm that's weird for sure, maybe sono previous notification you didn't check and that the system upped after some time? Idk

[Leyster]

Binomial name: Meraxes gigas Canale, Apesteguía, Gallina, Mitchell, Smith, Cullen, Shinya, Haluza, Gianechini & Makovicky, 2022
Classification:Dinosauria->Theropoda->Neotheropoda->Averostra->Tetanurae->Carnosauria->Allosauroidea->Allosauria->Carcharodontosauria->Carcharodontosauridae->Carcharodontosaurinae->Giganotosaurini
Time: Cenomanian (Late Cretaceous)
Formation: Huincul Formation (present day Argentina)
Manifacturer and date of release: PNSO, 2023
Sculptor: somebody in the atelier of Zhao Chuang
Scale: 1:30

[Concavenator]

This was a pleasant surprise, I wasn't expecting PNSO to come out with a Meraxes so soon. But well, glad they did! Certainly a relevant paleontological discovery.

BTW, what is that grey line sticking out of its left lower hindlimb?

[Leyster]

@Concavenator probably dust on the camera lens or just something like a small pebble in the space I use as light box.

[Leyster]

Binomial name: Ovibos moschatus(Zimmermann, 1780)
Classification: Placentalia->Boreoeutheria->Laurasiatheria->Scrotifera->Ferungulata->Paneuungulata->Ungulata->Artiodactyla->Artiofabula->Cetruminantia->Ruminantiamorpha->Ruminantia->Pecora->Bovidae->Aegodontia->Caprinae->Ovibovini
Time: Pleistocene - Recent
Formation: historycally much of the northern emisphere, but it went extinct in Eurasia more or less 500 years BC. Since then it was reintroduced in Norway and Russia.
Manifacturer and date of release: Kaiyodo, 2019
Sculptor: Shinobu Matsumura
Scale: 1:32 for an average specimen

[Leyster]

Binomial name: Mapusaurus roseae Coria and Currie, 2006
Classification:Dinosauria->Theropoda->Neotheropoda->Averostra->Tetanurae->Carnosauria->Allosauroidea->Allosauria->Carcharodontosauria->Carcharodontosauridae->Carcharodontosaurinae->Giganotosaurini
Time: Cenomanian (Late Cretaceous)
Formation: Huincul Formation (present day Argentina)
Manifacturer and date of release: PNSO, 2023
Sculptor: somebody in the atelier of Zhao Chuang
Scale: 1:30 for the largest specimen

[Halichoeres]

Definitely has the most interesting pose of the three!

[Leyster]

@Halichoeres for sure, it has!


Binomial name: Ursus maritimus Phipps, 1774
Classification:Placentalia->Boreoeutheria->Laurasiatheria->Scrotifera->Ferungulata->Ferae->Carnivora->Caniformia->Canoidea->Arctoidea->Ursida->Ursoidea->Ursidae
Time: Chibanian? (Late Pleistocene)-Recent
Formation: north of Eurasia and North America, within the Arctic Circle.
Manifacturer and date of release: Kaiyodo, 2019
Sculptor: Shinobu Matsumura
Scale: 1:32 for a largeish female or a smallish male

[Gothmog the Baryonyx]

Lovely aquisitions, I am fond of those PNSO Carcharadontosaurians, and where did those Pleistocene megafaunal beauties come from?

[Leyster]

@Gothmog the Baryonyx if yoy refer to the muskox, polar bear and such, they're Kaiyodo. From the Wild Rush line.

[Chasmosaurus]

Now: why companies keep copypasting a Yangchuanosaurus head on an Allosaurus-like body? Because G. S. Paul, on his influential "Princeton field guide to Dinosaurs", likes lumping taxa. What he calls "adult Yangchuanosaurus" is in fact the holotype of Sinraptor hepingensis (ZDM 0024). If you own the book, you can check that the skeletal is the same that was figured in this illustration and labelled "Yangchuanosaurus hepingensis".

Sorry to ask a question on an old subject.
Does the Yangchuanosaurus from PNSO represent a Sinraptor rather than a Yangchuanosaurus?

[Leyster]

@Chasmosaurus no, it's based on the skeletal of the "immature Yangchuanosaurus" in the same book, which is in fact specimen CV 00215, an actual Yangchuanosaurus. It's the "adult Yangchuanosaurus" that is ZDM 0024 ("Sinraptor" hepingensis). I know it can be confusing, it's because Paul's weird lumpings.




Binomial name: Kosmoceratops richardsoni Sampson et al., 2010
Classification: Dinosauria->Ornithischia->Genasauria->Neornithischia->Marginocephalia->Ceratopsia->Neoceratopsia->Coronosauria->Ceratopsoidea->Ceratopsidae->Chasmosaurinae
Time: Campanian (Late Cretaceous)
Formation:  Kaiparowits Formation (present-day USA)
Manifacturer and date of release: PNSO, 2016
Sculptor: somebody in the atelier of Zhao Chuang
Scale: 1:45

[Gothmog the Baryonyx]

I knew Kosmoeratops was a small Ceratopsid, but I didn't know it was that small. I thought that was 1:50-1:60 ish.

[Leyster]

@Gothmog the Baryonyx most ceratopsians are quite small, not bigger than a big cow. Triceratops and such are rare (and even among Triceratops, most specimens are still around six meters and not the nine meters behemots you might often read).



Binomial name: Equus quagga (Boddaert, 1785)
Classification: Placentalia->Boreoeutheria->Laurasiatheria->Scrotifera->Ferungulata->Paneuungulata->Ungulata->Perissodactyla->Hippomorpha->Equoidea->Equidae->Equinae->Equini->Equina
Time: Pleistocene-Recent
Formation: South and eastern Africa
Manifacturer and date of release: Kaiyodo, 2018
Sculptor: Naka Sugaya
Scale: 1:32 for a smallish specimen

[SidB]

@Chasmosaurus no, it's based on the skeletal of the "immature Yangchuanosaurus" in the same book, which is in fact specimen CV 00215, an actual Yangchuanosaurus. It's the "adult Yangchuanosaurus" that is ZDM 0024 ("Sinraptor" hepingensis). I know it can be confusing, it's because Paul's weird lumpings.




Binomial name: Kosmoceratops richardsoni Sampson et al., 2010
Classification: Dinosauria->Ornithischia->Genasauria->Neornithischia->Marginocephalia->Ceratopsia->Neoceratopsia->Coronosauria->Ceratopsoidea->Ceratopsidae->Chasmosaurinae
Time: Campanian (Late Cretaceous)
Formation:  Kaiparowits Formation (present-day USA)
Manifacturer and date of release: PNSO, 2016
Sculptor: somebody in the atelier of Zhao Chuang
Scale: 1:45

Ah perfect, this little guy will fit into my ceratopsian collection shelf, she's not too small scale-wise. Didn't realize this - thanks L @Leyster.

[Halichoeres]

On the Kosmoceratops, I wager you get a different answer depending on what you measure!

[SidB]

On the Kosmoceratops, I wager you get a different answer depending on what you measure!

Ah yes, the bane of the scale-game.

[Leyster]

@Halichoeres: not in this case, I went by skull lenght from the description, but I found more or less 1:45 for the femur, too (femur lenght extrapolated using the scale bar of the skeletal in said description).

[Halichoeres]

@Halichoeres: not in this case, I went by skull lenght from the description, but I found more or less 1:45 for the femur, too (femur lenght extrapolated using the scale bar of the skeletal in said description).

Good to know! So many of their minis are a bit large in the noggin.

[Leyster]

Binomial name: Pachycephalosaurus wyomingensis Gilmore, 1931
Classification: Dinosauria->Ornithischia->Genasauria->Neornithischia->Marginocephalia->Pachycephalosauria
Time: Maastrichtian (Late Cretaceous)
Formation: Lance Formation, Hell Creek Formation (present-day USA)
Manifacturer and date of release: PNSO, 2021
Sculptor: somebody in the atelier of Zhao Chuang
Scale: 1:24 for AMNH 1695


Not the first Pachycephalosaurus I own, but the first to get in my collection. I'm still curious about that abstract about them having kangaroo-like poses...