The Unique Species Specimen Discussion Thread

[SBell]

There is an Acinonyx pardinensis picture here you can use

So there is! Thanks for the heads-up, I added it immediately. 

And, you can take it down now...although not very cheetah-like, Geoworld has an official Acinonyx pardinensis in their Ice Age Mammal sets (I got in some small kits and they are clearly labelled on the package and cards).

[Roselaar]

There is an Acinonyx pardinensis picture here you can use

So there is! Thanks for the heads-up, I added it immediately. 

And, you can take it down now...although not very cheetah-like, Geoworld has an official Acinonyx pardinensis in their Ice Age Mammal sets (I got in some small kits and they are clearly labelled on the package and cards).

Oh, well that's nice! 

But hey, that comes with keeping track of a list like this. Still only about 280 species to debunk, Geoworld! Go for it! 

[crankydinosaur]

And, you can take it down now...although not very cheetah-like, Geoworld has an official Acinonyx pardinensis in their Ice Age Mammal sets (I got in some small kits and they are clearly labelled on the package and cards).

what exactly are those animals in those sets? One of them kinda looks like an Anthracotherium

[SBell]

And, you can take it down now...although not very cheetah-like, Geoworld has an official Acinonyx pardinensis in their Ice Age Mammal sets (I got in some small kits and they are clearly labelled on the package and cards).

what exactly are those animals in those sets? One of them kinda looks like an Anthracotherium

One of them is indeed an anthracothere! They are scaled down models of a larger set that showed up here a while ago from the Netherlands (I think?).

There is a mammoth, woolly rhino, smilodon, anthracothere, cave lion and giant cheetah (there are cards to prove it and everything!) although the last two are more...imaginative restorations.  I have a couple sets for sale; they are about the same size as toob figures, but they come in a big ice-egg case with playmat, rocks and info cards.

[Roselaar]

And, you can take it down now...although not very cheetah-like, Geoworld has an official Acinonyx pardinensis in their Ice Age Mammal sets (I got in some small kits and they are clearly labelled on the package and cards).

what exactly are those animals in those sets? One of them kinda looks like an Anthracotherium

One of them is indeed an anthracothere! They are scaled down models of a larger set that showed up here a while ago from the Netherlands (I think?).

They did? I seemed to have missed them then. :-/

If there's any new species in the set and you've got pics of them (or you can point me in the right direction), by all means.

[SBell]

And, you can take it down now...although not very cheetah-like, Geoworld has an official Acinonyx pardinensis in their Ice Age Mammal sets (I got in some small kits and they are clearly labelled on the package and cards).

what exactly are those animals in those sets? One of them kinda looks like an Anthracotherium

One of them is indeed an anthracothere! They are scaled down models of a larger set that showed up here a while ago from the Netherlands (I think?).

They did? I seemed to have missed them then. :-/

If there's any new species in the set and you've got pics of them (or you can point me in the right direction), by all means.

It depends--obviously the mammoth, rhino and smilodon aren't new! And I know of at least one other A. pardinensis (you had my photo!). The other two--cave lion and anthracothere--would be unique, except that I have two different ones, very similar, obviously from the same sculptor, but very different sizes. So no, not unique (by the standards of this thread) but unique nonetheless.

[Roselaar]

Okay, so not unique then. Fine by me. Saves me the trouble of adapting my thread.

[crankydinosaur]

I'm excited about that Anthrcothere do you know what species it represents

[SBell]

I'm excited about that Anthrcothere do you know what species it represents

It's pretty generic. I can't recall off hand if it is Anthracotherium or if they just left it as anthracothere.

[Roselaar]

Wuerhosaurus is out. Turns out there's a Dinoz version of this species as well.

[Roselaar]

BTW, Gryposaurus is not a unique species by any chance...?

[Roselaar]

Added Collecta's new Ichthyovenator.

[Roselaar]

Exit Dorygnathus. Apparently there's a Dinowaurs figure too.

[Roselaar]

Made a big update to this list in terms of Yowies. Added missing pictures of certain species and replaced previous pictures. Series A is covered, but there's still a lot of work to be done on B and C. My biggest vexation is that in many cases I don't know whether a species is unique or not.

[Brontozaurus]

I can help with some of the yowie photos.

Also, Australovenator should go because Geoworld did a figure of it, and Yowie did Procoptodon, not Sthenurus, which is also an upcoming Geoworld figure. Additionally, the Yowie Leptocleidus should be merged with Umoonasaurus because the specimen it represents was first classified as Leptocleidus, but it became its own genus after the figure was released.

[Roselaar]

I can help with some of the yowie photos.

Also, Australovenator should go because Geoworld did a figure of it, and Yowie did Procoptodon, not Sthenurus, which is also an upcoming Geoworld figure. Additionally, the Yowie Leptocleidus should be merged with Umoonasaurus because the specimen it represents was first classified as Leptocleidus, but it became its own genus after the figure was released.

Thanks for your assistance, I corrected these particular bits. Is Procoptodon itself unique by any chance? I can't recall any other figures of this kangaroo.

Poor Australovenator...

[CityRaptor]

You will also need to remover Microceratus, since there is one from Dinoz, even it is labeled Microceratops. ( It is one of the few Dinoz I got since I thought it was unique )

[Roselaar]

You will also need to remover Microceratus, since there is one from Dinoz, even it is labeled Microceratops. ( It is one of the few Dinoz I got since I thought it was unique )

So those species are identical then? You learn something new every day... I'll scratch it off the list. Thanks!

[SBell]

I can help with some of the yowie photos.

Also, Australovenator should go because Geoworld did a figure of it, and Yowie did Procoptodon, not Sthenurus, which is also an upcoming Geoworld figure. Additionally, the Yowie Leptocleidus should be merged with Umoonasaurus because the specimen it represents was first classified as Leptocleidus, but it became its own genus after the figure was released.

Thanks for your assistance, I corrected these particular bits. Is Procoptodon itself unique by any chance? I can't recall any other figures of this kangaroo.

Poor Australovenator...

Australovenator should have come off there anyway--CollectA made one too.

[Brontozaurus]

I can help with some of the yowie photos.

Also, Australovenator should go because Geoworld did a figure of it, and Yowie did Procoptodon, not Sthenurus, which is also an upcoming Geoworld figure. Additionally, the Yowie Leptocleidus should be merged with Umoonasaurus because the specimen it represents was first classified as Leptocleidus, but it became its own genus after the figure was released.

Thanks for your assistance, I corrected these particular bits. Is Procoptodon itself unique by any chance? I can't recall any other figures of this kangaroo.

Poor Australovenator...

Procoptodon is getting its second-ever figure in the upcoming Geoworld mammals line. I pointed it out in my post but I worded it a bit poorly. To my knowledge there's never been a Sthenurus figure ever; not even Yowie did one.