Meet Apatoraptor!

[suspsy]

http://calgary.ctvnews.ca/mobile/alberta-researchers-rediscover-new-toothless-dinosaur-left-on-a-shelf-for-years-1.2859173#_gus&_gucid=&_gup=twitter&_gsc=EaG5m2R

Love the name!

[Kovu]

I love all these new species that were dug up twenty years ago and are just being "rediscovered" on museum shelves. Idk, for some reason that just seems really cool to me.

[Takama]

Apatoraptor

Sounds like a Hybrid that Simba would make.   

Or a Kid

"HEY GUYS I MADE A APATOSAURUS VELOCIRAPTOR HYBRID!!!

I call it APATORAPTOR!!!!"


In all seruisuness,  this is a great discovery though i doubt we will see a figure of it any time soon. (Whens the last time we seen a Oviraptor toy thats not Gigantoraptor, Citapatii, or Caudiptryx?)

[E.D.G.E. (PainterRex)]

We need a somewhat official name for these kinds of things. I was thinking shelf lizards/beasts, but I cannot for the life of me find shelf in latin. Or maybe box lizard/beasts.

[SBell]

We need a somewhat official name for these kinds of things. I was thinking shelf lizards/beasts, but I cannot for the life of me find shelf in latin. Or maybe box lizard/beasts.

The Latin for shelf is Pluteum or Pluteus. Pluteusaurs? Pluteutheres?

[E.D.G.E. (PainterRex)]

We need a somewhat official name for these kinds of things. I was thinking shelf lizards/beasts, but I cannot for the life of me find shelf in latin. Or maybe box lizard/beasts.

The Latin for shelf is Pluteum or Pluteus. Pluteusaurs? Pluteutheres?

Doesn't really roll of the tongue, does it?

[FishFossil]

We need a somewhat official name for these kinds of things. I was thinking shelf lizards/beasts, but I cannot for the life of me find shelf in latin. Or maybe box lizard/beasts.

transierunt means "passed over" in latin. Perhaps Transierusaurs?

[Silvanusaurus]

Nobodysaurus?

As in "Nobodysaurus sitting there on the shelf"... 

[SBell]

It just occurred to me that -saurus is Greek, so we shouldn't mix it with Latin. Apparently in Greek it's 'rafi', so rafisaurs?

or Peek-a-Boo-saurs.

[Chad]

They had a feathered dinosaur sitting on the shelf for 20 years?  (Talk about burying the lede!)

[Newt]

This may be even more prevalent in "neontology" (a silly word used only by paleontologists). Many institutions have huge collections amassed in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and barely examined since. See the insect family Mantophasmatidae, described in the early 2000s from museum specimens collected several decades earlier.

"Theca" is Greek for storage room or treasury; maybe "thecasaur"?

[Dinoguy2]

They had a feathered dinosaur sitting on the shelf for 20 years?  (Talk about burying the lede!)

No actual feathers, just quill knobs, which aren't so obvious especially since the specimen hadn't been fully prepared. A lot of details only showed up on CT scan.

And I'm not sure what they mean by "sitting on a shelf". For at least the past five years it has been sitting on a shelf... In the Royal Tyrel Museum... On display to the general public... (But labeled as Chirostenotes, just like Anzu was. They're all pretty identical except in tiny details).