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Leallynasaura amicagraphica
Named by Tom and Patricia Rich, 1989
Diet: Herbivore (Plants such as ferns and horsetails)
Type: Ornithopod dinosaur (Note: It remains uncertain of exactly what kind of ornithopod dinosaur it belonged to, ranging from a primitive ornithischian to an archaic iguanodontian)
Size: 10 feet (3 meters) long and 200 lb.
Region: Southeastern Australia (Victoria)
Age: Early Cretaceous (118 to 110 million BC; Late Aptian to Early Albian)
Enemies: Predatory theropods, such as perhaps Timimus, as well as those that were known from fragmentary remains in the Eumeralla Formation such as an unnamed megaraptorid and a spinosaur.
Episode: Spirits of the Ice Forest
Info: Named after Leaellyn Rich, the daughter of paleontologists Tom and Patricia Rich who founded it in the coastal cliffs of Victoria in southeastern Australia (in a site called 'Dinosaur Cove' in the Eumeralla Formation) and described it, Leaellynasaura's discovery in the 1980's has revolutionized our understanding of dinosaurs living in higher latitudes, showing that they were warm-blooded (or endothermic) and can thrive and survive into some of the coldest and most extreme habitats that no cold-blooded (or ectothermic) reptile can survive in. Living in the forested floodplain within a rift valley in ancient Gondwana (which Australia was stuck to Antarctica back then) just several hundred miles away from the South Pole with winter lasting 3 months of total darkness and below freezing temperatures, Leaellynasaura would've survived such harsh, cold, and dangerous times by being active year round, covered in feathered filaments for warmth (although there is no evidence of it), and had large eyes with the presence of optic lobes that would've enabled it to see through the darkness.
Note: Based on
(I asked him if I can use it as reference for permission, but no response)
As what
suggests, I did this dinosaur with a winter and a summer (Front) coloration.
Requested by
Walking with Dinosaurs is owned by BBC
Named by Tom and Patricia Rich, 1989
Diet: Herbivore (Plants such as ferns and horsetails)
Type: Ornithopod dinosaur (Note: It remains uncertain of exactly what kind of ornithopod dinosaur it belonged to, ranging from a primitive ornithischian to an archaic iguanodontian)
Size: 10 feet (3 meters) long and 200 lb.
Region: Southeastern Australia (Victoria)
Age: Early Cretaceous (118 to 110 million BC; Late Aptian to Early Albian)
Enemies: Predatory theropods, such as perhaps Timimus, as well as those that were known from fragmentary remains in the Eumeralla Formation such as an unnamed megaraptorid and a spinosaur.
Episode: Spirits of the Ice Forest
Info: Named after Leaellyn Rich, the daughter of paleontologists Tom and Patricia Rich who founded it in the coastal cliffs of Victoria in southeastern Australia (in a site called 'Dinosaur Cove' in the Eumeralla Formation) and described it, Leaellynasaura's discovery in the 1980's has revolutionized our understanding of dinosaurs living in higher latitudes, showing that they were warm-blooded (or endothermic) and can thrive and survive into some of the coldest and most extreme habitats that no cold-blooded (or ectothermic) reptile can survive in. Living in the forested floodplain within a rift valley in ancient Gondwana (which Australia was stuck to Antarctica back then) just several hundred miles away from the South Pole with winter lasting 3 months of total darkness and below freezing temperatures, Leaellynasaura would've survived such harsh, cold, and dangerous times by being active year round, covered in feathered filaments for warmth (although there is no evidence of it), and had large eyes with the presence of optic lobes that would've enabled it to see through the darkness.
Note: Based on
(I asked him if I can use it as reference for permission, but no response)As what
suggests, I did this dinosaur with a winter and a summer (Front) coloration.Requested by
Walking with Dinosaurs is owned by BBC
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Nice and this is just me saying but wouldn’t they shed some of that feather coat off during summer by the look of it they be (reptilian) sweating to death and I’m just saying.