Daemonosaurus chauliodus

Rubecula

Saw in the paper a 'new' dino had been found in Mexico. Anyway had a mooch around and found this link to details:

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/04/13/t-rex-toothy-ancestor-cut/

Nice looking fossil.

Galvasean

Love how the title calls it a T. rex ancestor only for the article underneath to say that it was an evolutionary dead end that did not give rise to Tyrannosaurus.

Adam Khor

Damn, you beat me to it! Found out about Daemonosaurus last night, but I was too tired to post about it here XD

By the way, Adam Khor approves of the name. A welcome change after so many named-after-a-place-saurs.

marco_polo

Adam Khor wrote: »

Damn, you beat me to it! Found out about Daemonosaurus last night, but I was too tired to post about it here XD

By the way, Adam Khor approves of the name. A welcome change after so many named-after-a-place-saurs.

Pros of the 'golden age' of Chinese Paleontology

- Lots of amazing new new dinosaur discoveries.

Cons

- Lots of unpronouncable new dinosaurs.

Adam Khor

marco_polo wrote: »

Pros of the 'golden age' of Chinese Paleontology

- Lots of amazing new new dinosaur discoveries.

Cons

- Lots of unpronouncable new dinosaurs.

Oh, I have no problem with the pronunciation... it's the lack of creativity that annoys me. :S We need more "classic" sounding names for dinos; Daemonosaurus, Teratophoneus and Titanoceratops are the proof that there are still plenty of cool combinations XD

Galvasean

Gigantoraptor FTW

Alvin T. Grey

Or Gigamegatyranis HarlyDavidson

Rubecula

Good grief are they real?

*runs to do a bit of googling*

:pac:

Adam Khor

Rubecula wrote: »

Good grief are they real?

*runs to do a bit of googling*

:pac:

Gigantoraptor is very real (and deserves to be in Jurassic Park IV!). Gigamegatyrannis... I don´t think so but it would be awesome XD

By the way, I've been thinking... what if the big curved teeth in the front of the Daemonosaurus' jaws were for biting off small chunks of flesh from larger animals? You know, like cookie-cutter sharks?

Alvin T. Grey

What could be more awesome then a Rex on a hog?
(one with specially designed handlebars.)

Alvin T. Grey

Back on topic,

Looks small, what size was estimated?

Those teeth remind me of a croc

Galvasean

You mean a gharial?
TBH, if you ask me, those teeth look nothing alike...


Here's the size:

Alvin T. Grey

I ment forward pointing and overlapping. That thing had a serious overbite. I'd find it hard to imagine it being able to get much chomping power into them as they were so far from the jawline.

Adam Khor

Actually, the species name "chauliodus" is an homage to the Chauliodus viper fish :>

Rubecula

If I pulled that beastie out of the canal I think I would fill me pants.

Alvin T. Grey

Galvasean wrote: »

You mean a gharial?
TBH, if you ask me, those teeth look nothing alike...


Here's the size:

Actually, you would be more correct when I come to think about it.