#antarctopelta

[jpechacek]

when your buddies kick you out of the clubhouse

[radstarsaur]

Prehistoric Planet Episode 4 - Ice Worlds

This was my favorite episode so far, what with the goofy bandit Ornithomimus, adorable baby Olorotitans, and the awesome Pachyrhinosaurus/Nanuqsaurus standoff. The real star of the show, however, was the Pyromaniac Troodontid.

[phantombandit84]

I’m naming him Spud, and he’s my child now. 🦕

[skyradiant]

Life of our Prehistoric Planet: Antarctopelta oliveroi.

[pleistocene-pride]

Mesozoic Batch 5

[a-dinosaur-a-day]

Antarctopelta oliveroi

By José Carlos Cortés on @ryuukibart

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Name: Antarctopelta oliveroi

Name Meaning: Antarctic Shield

First Described: 2006

Described By: Salgado & Gasparini

Classification: Dinosauria, Ornithischia, Genasauria, Thyreophora, Eurypoda, Ankylosauria, Nodosauridae

Antarctopelta is a fairly dubious genus of Nodosaurid, though a relatively derived one, from James Ross Island in Antarctica, in the Snow Hill Island Foramtion, and was actually the first nonavian dinosaur found in Antarctica, though it was only the second to be named, after Cryolophosaurus. It lived about 74 to 70 million years ago, in the Campanian age of the Late Cretaceous, and was probably about 4 meters long. Though it has traits that have caused it to be placed as an Ankylosaurid as well as a Nodosaurid in the past, and often has been labeled as the basal-most Nodosaurid, it was recovered as being fairly derived in a recent robust phylogeny. It was found in marine sediments, indicating that its carcass was washed out to sea, and it probably lived in a forest of conifers and deciduous trees. 

Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antarctopelta

Arbour, V. M, & P. J. Currie. 2015. Systematics, phylogeny and palaeobiogeography of the ankylosaurid dinosaurs. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology DOI: 10.1080/14772019.2015.1059985

Shout out goes to @superdinosaurspaceship-blog!

[a-dinosaur-a-day]

Your artists usually do such an amazing job when it comes to depicting these animals, but that Antarctopelta is making me nauseous. Why is there a tail club on a Nodosaurid? I understand it's a fragmentary taxon, but tail club are literally only found on Ankylosaurine Ankylosaurids. Victoria Arbour discusses this on her blog. (I hope I don't come across as rude, I just want to help out. Keep up the good work!) (ps. Tianyulong for best dinosaur 2016!)

Yeah I know... TBH yesterday Ryuu and I were both really out of it, tired and mental health wise. I didn’t really check the art for accuracy when he sent it to me and I only noticed the mistake after I posted it. Not only should it not have a tail club; but that tail club shouldn’t be bend-y! According to Arbour’s research, Ankylosaurids (the group with clubs) evolved stiffened tails first, clubs second; that way the stiffened tail could hold up the club, and also just be used as a weapon on its own (yeah, a mace is scary, but so is a freaking baseball bat). 

But I wish you had sent me this off of anon because honestly I wasn’t really going to say anything to him because, well, I don’t pay my artists enough. We don’t make enough on the patreon to justify me asking him to fix it... So I was just kind of going to let it stay, maybe fix it in the future if we felt like it. But tl;dr we were both out of it yesterday and yeah, he shouldn’t have drawn it with a club, but I also had my chance to point it out (when he first sent the art) and I didn’t, so it’s just as much on me as it is on him, and I can’t ask him to fix it :/

[anceh-atsiome]

*Antarctopelta gets rejected* Siblings are... evil? Siblings are unyielding? Siblings are incapable of love? I am running away. I am packing my little rucksack and going out to explore the world as a lone vagabond. I can no longer thrive in this household.