#outdated dinosaurs

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Outdated Sinornithoides

Circa 2006

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To be fair, they’re not even scientifically accurate humans. 

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This book is so horribly outdated, im crying

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30-Day Retrosaur Art Challenge - Day #13 – Horned Goliath

Carcinoceratops primus – “First Crab-Horned Face”

(Car-Sin-Oh-Sair-Ah-Tops) (Prime-Uss)

There is a dizzyingly large array of Horned Goliaths, and this one is just as unique as the rest. Although not quite as near-and-dear to everyone’s hearts as Agathaumas, Carcinoceratops holds the record for spikes, wattles, and tusks. Its frill is merged with the flesh of its neck and back and muscle runs the lengths to help support the muscles needed to ram into opponents and to chew its food of bark, cycads, and other hard fruits. It is thought these animals fight one another for the rights to mate by clashing their horns and frills together, but this is not yet known and obviously these animals were none too bright, so a big show of dominance may have been all for not. Only more fossil remains will tell!

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30-Day Retrosaur Art Challenge - Day #16 - Short-Tailed Sea Tyrant

Chelonosuchus densocuticus – “Thick-Skinned Turtle Crocodile”

(Shell-On-Oh-Sue-Kuss) (Den-So-Cute-Ih-Kuss)

The last of the three known types of Sea Tyrants were made up mostly of true titans! Short-Tailed Sea Tyrants were some of the largest creatures in the oceans of prehistoric times. The largest of them had heads nearly twice as long as human and railroad-spike sized teeth. Chelonosuchus was a heavily armored turtle-like beast with teeth shaped like the chompers of modern sperm whales it used to pulverize and puncture the fins of other marine animals. Most of the time they would have preyed upon Long-Tailed Sea Tyrants but literally anything else in the oceans would do, for Chelonosuchus were some of the largest ever found. Like all other Sea Tyrants, Chelonosuchus had a set of long, thin claws jutting out of the front flippers that could not be moved independently like true digits, and would have been used for many things, like intraspecific combat, food entrapment, and hauling themselves up onto beaches to lay their eggs.

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30-Day Retrosaur Art Challenge - Day #14 - Long-Necked Sea Tyrant

Anguitherium crassiventrus – “Fat-Bellied Snake Beast”

(An-Gwee-Theer-Ee-Um) (Krass- Ee-Vent-Russ)

Transitional Tyrants were a group of tyrants that started to adapt to an aquatic lifestyle with some of them developing subterranean abilities, and some going more amphibious. Next to branch off were the Long-Necked Sea Tyrants. Unlike the Long-Necked Goliaths, these animals are carnivorous fish-eaters that trap their dangerous prey between the long needle-like teeth before swallowing them whole. Anguitherium is an example of this group that represents one of the largest and most terrifying so far discovered. This was not because you wouldn’t want to swim with it, which you wouldn’t, but because they were perfectly capable of coming out onto land and tearing into land animals, before delving back into the ocean depths. With their long necks and railroad-spike-like teeth, Anguitherium would find Flying Tyrants or early Birds flying over the water and strike with a viper-like intensity that would catch these flying creatures by surprise. Anguitherium has vestigial spurs on their front flippers that they use to help haul themselves onto land to chase after beach-dwelling transitional tyrants and goliaths but also more importantly to lay their eggs in large scrapes they dig in the beach dunes. After they lay their eggs, of which there are hundreds, they leave them to fend for themselves as most Retrosaurs do, and whoever survives, survives; Survival of the fittest!

(Based off Plesiosaurs, and outdated reconstructions of beach-walking Plesiosaurs)

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