Picture Quiz

Rubecula

Exactly right.

Galvasean

Clue: a cocodile who eats plants - you might find info of him archived in this forum if you search for 'crocodiles'

Galvasean

Wait, no you won't, My bad.
Oh well, you'll still find some awesome stuff.

Rubecula

Simosuchus????

I vaguely remember that name from somewhere. But I am not certain.

I think it was a short snouted thing from about 70 million years ago. Again I am not 100% sure. But I am sure I read about it not long ago.

Galvasean

Simosuchus is correct.

Rubecula

Try this one. No clue this time.


I have to go offline now so I won't be able to confirm your names this evening, so no rush to reply.

Galvasean

Megapiranha?!!?!?

Rubecula

Caught me just before I logged off LOL.

No thats not right this time. See you tomorrow, if you need a clue let me know.

Galvasean

CLUE

Rubecula

LOL you would wouldn't you.

ok. It is listed under fish of the early cretaceous.

Cryptic: A rare perch for a toothy bird. (Awful clue that one I hope you don't need it)

Galvasean

Had to cheat to get that one. It's Araripichthys.
Still have no idea what that cyptic clue was all about...



Clue: Made in China

Rubecula

Yes really sorry about that truly awful clue. I had a job to think of one.

Not got much of a clue about that thing though, is it some kind of Oviraptor?

Galvasean

Nope. Think bigger.

Rubecula

Yangchuanosaurus I think.

I did some wikipedia on it. Sorry for cheating like that, but I was a little stuck. I knew I had it sussed when I saw the same picture on the page.

Yangchuanosaurus was a theropod dinosaur that lived in China during the late Oxfordian (and possibly Kimmeridgian) stage of the Late Jurassic, and was similar in size and appearance to its North American contemporary, Allosaurus. It hails from the Upper Shaximiao Formation and was the largest predator in a landscape which included the sauropods Mamenchisaurus and Omeisaurus as well as the Stegosaurs Chialingosaurus, Tuojiangosaurus and Chungkingosaurus

I have never heard of it before so thanks for digging that one out.

Rubecula

Clue: I wonder what it's eggs taste like:D

Galvasean

Gallimimus or Ornithomimus. Based on your clue I'm guessing Gallimimus.

Rubecula

Yes thats right, Gallimimus the chicken mimic.

(How it mimicked something not yet evolved is beyond me, but hey, thats how they name them LOL)

Galvasean

Rubecula

Gott in Himmel thats a big sod.

The spikey bits seem to be a clue though, although I am not sure.

I had to look through my stuff to try to find something (anything) that might have matched up.

It looks like a Chinese sauropod that I found a picture of. Not too sure it is the right one, but according to this thing it is called the Shunosaurus.

I hope thats right as I can't find anything else that resembles it.

Galvasean

Galvasean

Galvasean wrote: »

Post a picture with the name written in the background. Well done Sean.

Kess73

Galvasean wrote: »

Post a picture with the name written in the background. Well done Sean.

Would it be some sort of big trout maybe? The type that Nigel Marven went fly fishing for.








Dunkleosteus

Rubecula

I remember that show, informative and fun at the same time. Big armoured beastie wasn't it? He had a spherical sharks cage if I remember right.

I love marine paleontology, there is simply so much of it.