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Greetings from Uruguay

Started by juancho142, July 13, 2015, 03:09:22 AM

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juancho142

Hello everyone, I'm Juan, from Uruguay.
Always been a fan of dinosaurs and prehistoric animals since kid, to the point I ended up becoming a paleonthologist. Regarding modeling I remember always looking up to Tony McVey and David Krentz models on the PaleoArt website, I even once built a T rex which I never painted.
I find that there are a lot of models out there which are awesome and cheap now! So I'll get a few.
Cheers

Juan


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Everything_Dinosaur

Welcome to the forum, not to sure about dinosaur fossils from Uruguay, please feel free to enlighten us.

juancho142

Quote from: Everything_Dinosaur on July 15, 2015, 05:59:12 PM
Welcome to the forum, not to sure about dinosaur fossils from Uruguay, please feel free to enlighten us.

Uruguay, in case someone doesn't know, is next to Argentina so we have all kinds of stuff.
However the fossil record has way more giant mammals than dinosaurs. We have the largest rodent in history which is the genus Josephoartigasia and all sorts of giant ground sloths and other huge mammals. Particularly my thesis was on the muscular reconstruction of the hindlimbs in Lestodon armatus, a mylodontid which almost rivaled Megatherium in size.

Dinosaurs we do have but the record is more limited. We have titanosaurian sauropods like Saltasaurus, Antarctosaurus, and there is a lot of fragmentary material like theropod teeth (ceratosauridae), eggs, footprints and more. I'm thinking of doing some research on the subject.

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