Comments on: Restoring One of New Jersey’s Dinosaurs

By: Abanoub Marcus

Abanoub Marcus — Tue, 04 May 2010 01:51:54 +0000

You think New Jersey isn’t rich in dinosaur fossils? Then try living in Nebraska! Since Nebraska was underwater during the age of dinosaurs, and since dinosaurs lived on land, dinosaur fossils are very rare there. And most of the major fossil sites here in Nebraska are either from the Palaeozoic or Cenozoic Eras, not the Mesozoic Era, when dinosaurs lived. You’re lucky!

By: How Dryptosaurus Got Its Name | Dinosaur Tracking

How Dryptosaurus Got Its Name | Dinosaur Tracking — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 14:02:25 +0000

[...] hide of Hadrosaurus (also discovered in New Jersey) and shattering the armor of ancient crocodiles. Today we know the dinosaur as a tyrannosauroid closely related to the recently-discovered Appalachiosaurus, and though hypotheses of what it [...]

By: Bringing a Dryptosaurus Back to Life | good-topic.com

Bringing a Dryptosaurus Back to Life | good-topic.com — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 22:45:34 +0000

[...] reaction to my post about Dryptosaurus the other week, paleo-artist Michael Skrepnick told me about the efforts of his colleague Tyler [...]

By: Bringing a Dryptosaurus Back to Life | Dinosaur Tracking

Bringing a Dryptosaurus Back to Life | Dinosaur Tracking — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 16:32:41 +0000

[...] reaction to my post about Dryptosaurus the other week, paleo-artist Michael Skrepnick told me about the efforts of his colleague Tyler [...]

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:31:39 +0000

Hey, at least Missouri has dinosaurs (see here http://metazoica.blogspot.com/2009/03/untold-story-of-hypsibema.html and here http://www.bcmnh.org/missouridinosaur.html. Try living over in the Great Lakes Region, where we’ve got nothing younger than the Carboniferous, except Pleistocene fossils and one Late Miocene sinkhole (In Indiana).

By: Davor

Davor — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:15:04 +0000

@Kaje – yeah, Indiana isn’t brimming with dinos either. I have amassed a small collection of crinoid fragments and brachiopods, though. I’ve got some love for the Carboniferous.

By: Ian Garofalo

Ian Garofalo — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 02:26:12 +0000

The Knight painting is a true masterpiece. One thing I love about it is the fact that it is so ahead of its time. It shows dinosaurs being dynamic and active at a time when they were generally thought to have been sluggish and stupid.

By: Doug

Doug — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 20:54:35 +0000

I wonder how well known it would be today if the Paleozoic Museum had not been shot down by Tammany Hall! Well i wish him luck in his quest to popularize Dryptosaurus and bring it to the public light (as i hope to do that someday with some other amazing but virtually unknown animals)

California isn’t such a good place for dinosaurs either (though it’s one of the best for prehistoric mammals!). We have one genus named from here and the other remains are fragmentary (except for that hadrosaur skeleton from southern CA).

By: Kaje

Kaje — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 18:13:02 +0000

You thought New Jersey sucks for dinosaurs? Try living in SW Missouri.

Speaking of New Jersey dinosaurs, wasn’t there a fossil bed that was in danger of being bulldozed for a condo? What happened with that?

By: Brett Booth

Brett Booth — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 15:57:18 +0000

I’m still trying to figure out how many fingers the darn thing had;)

By: Davor

Davor — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 15:34:58 +0000

I love the Knight _Dryptosaurus_ painting so much. It’s one of those paintings that truly brings dinosaurs to life. I’d frame it, if only I could find a print of it! I don’t know if it would require the Knight estate’s permission or not, but jeez I’d love a high quality print of it.