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Published: 2019-05-11 20:09:16 +0000 UTC; Views: 5571; Favourites: 131; Downloads: 0
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ok folks so whilst I'm working on my next "ask my avatar post"i've decided to do another nice bit of simple paleoart.
basically just a cute little sinosauropteryx sitting on a rock waiting for the sun to come up.
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*BASIC INFO*
Name: Sinosauropteryx prima
Meaning: "Chinese reptilian wing"
Family group: a family of very small coelurosaurian theropod dinosaurs called Compsognathidae
Diet: Carnivore (mainly small mammals, reptiles and insects)
Era: Early Cretaceous (specially the Aptian era) 125 million years ago
Size: 1.07 metres (3.51 feet) in length and
Weight: 0.55 kilograms (1.21 pounds)
Habitat: mostly open habitats like deserts, large clearings and volcano landscapes
Fossil's Locations: now northeastern China: the Yixian Formation in Liaoning Province
Discovered by: Ji Qiang and Ji Shuan in 1996
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i hope you lot like it.
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Comments: 18
What place of today could you compare it's habitat to?
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sort of open habitat.
not so much a desert, but perhaps more like a parie with small patches of forest (with the grass)
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Okay. Where in the world would you compare it to?
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The vegetation and the environment in the background is inconsistent with the animal. Sinosauropteryx inhabited a dense swampy temperate forest, not a desert. Plus, the vegetation there seems to only arrive around the middle-late Cenozoic.
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not exactly more recent studies seem to suggest it living in an "open habitat" with lots of light.
not really a dense swamp.
-www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VybLg…
it maybe was't a full blown desert but i was looking for something with no grass that said "open environment."
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Yes, but those plants look like cactus, and these only arrived in the Eocene-Oligocene.
About not living in a dense swamp, its just that it wouldn't be a desert, but it would still be full of trees, just not be a straight-up rainforest.
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