The Unique Species Specimen Discussion Thread

[Roselaar]

Yeah, those two and the last three BotM taxa: Acheroraptor, Adasaurus, and Tsaagan.

Added all. Guess whose pictures I used for the BotMs? Mwhahah! 

[Halichoeres]

Noooooo!!!! 

[Roselaar]

Added the Vitae Chilantaisaurus, Zhejiangopterus and Zhejiangosaurus. Halichoeres, thanks for the pics. 

[Halichoeres]

Added the Vitae Chilantaisaurus, Zhejiangopterus and Zhejiangosaurus. Halichoeres, thanks for the pics. 

Hey, anytime! Just to be clear, the Zhejiangopterus isn't unique, although the Zhejiangosaurus is. Takara Tomy made the former for the Dinosaur Train line:

[Ravonium]

Now that PNSO has released all of their minis on Amazon, and people are slowly beginning to post photos of them, should the list be updated to consider them?

If so, then as far as I can gather, Xenoceratops, Guidraco, Atopodentatus, Indosuchus, Mei and Dakosaurus can be removed. I'm less certain in this regard, but I also think Keichousaurus, Liaoceratops, Tianyulong, Ectenosaurus and Spinops can be added.

[Roselaar]

Yikes, there's a lot of work to be done then! Thanks a lot, PNSO. No really, thank you.

[Roselaar]

Finally had time for an update. Added:

Schleich Animantarx
PNSO Ectenosaurus
PNSO Keichousaurus
PNSO Liaoceratops
PNSO Spinops
PNSO Tianyulong

Removed:

Vitae Zhejiangopterus
Collecta Guidraco
Collecta Xenoceratops
DeAgostini Indosuchus
Safari Dakosaurus
Paleo-Creatures Atopodentatus
Mei Long

Anything I missed?

[Roselaar]

Prestosuchus... Had this species been done before?

[Shonisaurus]

By the way, can Safari 2019's citipati be a unique species or has it been cited before?

[Roselaar]

By the way, can Safari 2019's citipati be a unique species or has it been cited before?

Citipati has been done at least once by the Japanese Kanna toy line, so far as I know. More often than that, I think, but I can't cite any other examples from the top of my head.

[Halichoeres]

Prestosuchus... Had this species been done before?

This is the only one I'm aware of.

By the way, can Safari 2019's citipati be a unique species or has it been cited before?

Citipati has been done at least once by the Japanese Kanna toy line, so far as I know. More often than that, I think, but I can't cite any other examples from the top of my head.

Kanna has made at least 3 versions of Citipati, but I think they're the only ones, unless you count the misidentified Oviraptor figures made by most companies.

[Roselaar]

Prestosuchus... Had this species been done before?

This is the only one I'm aware of.

By the way, can Safari 2019's citipati be a unique species or has it been cited before?

Citipati has been done at least once by the Japanese Kanna toy line, so far as I know. More often than that, I think, but I can't cite any other examples from the top of my head.

Kanna has made at least 3 versions of Citipati, but I think they're the only ones, unless you count the misidentified Oviraptor figures made by most companies.

Well, 3 different Kanna figures and a safari specimen rule it out for the USL. But I'll add Presto straight away.

[Roselaar]

Deleted Mussaurus. Thanks to Mattel.

[Ravonium]

Spinops can be removed now; PNSO has made a larger figure of it.

[Roselaar]

Spinops can be removed now; PNSO has made a larger figure of it.

Noted. Thanks!

[Concavenator]

Shouldn't Safari's Malawisaurus and Eofauna's Atlasaurus join the list? I don't recall any other figure of those two 

Also, the Eurhinosaurusshould be removed. This year PNSO released their version.

[Roselaar]

Shouldn't Safari's Malawisaurus and Eofauna's Atlasaurus join the list? I don't recall any other figure of those two 

Also, the Eurhinosaurusshould be removed. This year PNSO released their version.

Thanks for Eurhinosaurus. 

Malawisaurus was on the list, but was then removed, if I recall. You'll probably find out why if you scroll back a few pages, wasn't that long ago.

Atlasaurus... Not sure. Anyone?

[Halichoeres]

Hirokazu Tokugawa made a resin sculpture of Malawisaurus some years back. There are surely not many copies, but technically there was another version of the animal available.

[Ravonium]

Atlasaurus... Not sure. Anyone?

I'm not aware of any other figures/models of it, and if it's worth anything, it seemed like a noticeable proportion of this community hadn't heard of Atlasaurus until EoFauna revealed their figure of it.


EDIT: Moving onto another topic, the only change I think the BotM Ceratopsian Series* makes to this list is that it removes Avaceratops. It might also add Albertaceratops, though as it didn't get unlocked, it's doubtful whether it will be released in the foreseeable future, if ever.

*I'm aware that nothing from that line's been released yet, but I don't think anyone's received the EoFauna Atlasaurus yet either and the only seller that had it doesn't have it anymore.

[Halichoeres]

I think it also removes Medusaceratops, and possibly Wendiceratops if that's unlocked during the time the BackerKit surveys are live. I think last time the raptors were added to the USL at the time they started shipping, for whatever it's worth.