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Hadrosaur excavation completed in Hokkaido

Started by Halichoeres, May 02, 2017, 06:41:49 PM

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Halichoeres

May 02, 2017, 06:41:49 PM
They're calling it the largest, most complete Japanese dinosaur, an as-yet-unnamed hadrosaurid. Good candidate for plastic treatment by Favorite or Kaiyodo in the next couple of years, I'd say.

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/04/28/national/science-health/japans-largest-fossilized-dinosaur-skeleton-unearthed-hokkaido/#.WQidudxOnIU
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BlueKrono

#1
May 02, 2017, 06:45:35 PM
26 ft? So no sauropods from Japan?
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Halichoeres

#2
May 02, 2017, 06:52:28 PM
There's Tambatitanis, so this hadrosaur wouldn't be the largest dinosaur, but it could still be the largest skeleton, if Tambatitanis is fragmentary enough. Here's the material from the Tambatitanis description:

"a partial skeleton represented by teeth, a braincase, a dentary, an atlas, a fragmentary cervical vertebra, fragmentary dorsal vertebrae, dorsal ribs, first sacral ribs, spine of sacral vertebrae, a pubis, an ilium, caudal vertebrae and chevrons."

Sounds pretty similar, really.
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Jose S.M.

#3
May 02, 2017, 06:53:00 PM
Probably will get an expo exclusive figure.

Halichoeres

#4
May 02, 2017, 06:57:11 PM
Incidentally, the Tambatitanis description is worth downloading if you are good at Magic Eye, since it has lots of "stereo-pair" photographs of individual bones, that look 3D if you can un-focus your eyes just right. I myself find it really difficult, but if you do not: http://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.3848.1.1/19449
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Neosodon

#5
May 02, 2017, 07:04:36 PM
What Hadrosaurs lived in Japan? It seems like they could take some guesses at what it might be.

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Halichoeres

#6
May 03, 2017, 02:38:39 PM
Quote from: Neosodon on May 02, 2017, 07:04:36 PM
What Hadrosaurs lived in Japan? It seems like they could take some guesses at what it might be.

I don't think any are known from Japan, but Hokkaido wasn't an island then, so it could easily be a hadrosaur from the Campanian/Maastrichtian of mainland Asia, maybe Bactrosaurus or something.
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#7
May 03, 2017, 04:38:30 PM
Fukuisaurus?

CityRaptor

#8
May 03, 2017, 04:52:21 PM
Could be. Or this guy:
http://powerrangers.wikia.com/wiki/Giganoid_4:_Revival

Kidding, but it is probably a genus close to Fukuisaurus.
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All the dinosaurs are running wild
Someone let T. Rex out of his pen
I'm afraid those things'll harm me
'Cause they sure don't act like Barney
And they think that I'm their dinner, not their friend
Oh no

Halichoeres

#9
May 03, 2017, 10:32:37 PM
I don't think it's going to be Fukuisaurus, because Fukuisaurus isn't a hadrosaur (although it's not far off), it's 50 million or so years earlier, and it's half the size.
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#10
May 05, 2017, 12:58:48 AM
I'm guessing it's a new saurolophine of some sort.

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