Comments on: The Dinosaur That Wasn’t http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/dinosaur/2011/08/the-dinosaur-that-wasnt/ Where Paleontology Meets Pop Culture Sat, 22 Dec 2012 16:48:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4 By: Thomas R. Holtz, Jr. http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/dinosaur/2011/08/the-dinosaur-that-wasnt/comment-page-1/#comment-4724 Thomas R. Holtz, Jr. Thu, 25 Aug 2011 13:38:33 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/dinosaur/?p=6205#comment-4724 Mickey: I think it is more lazy than suspicious. All previous illustrations of <i>Smok</i> have used the herrerasaur-template, and it looks like they just retraced it. Sure, it might be preferable if they either a) didn't attempt a reconstruction at this phase or b) show the elements on both a herrerasaur-type and a "rauisuchian"-type skeleton. Mickey: I think it is more lazy than suspicious. All previous illustrations of Smok have used the herrerasaur-template, and it looks like they just retraced it.

Sure, it might be preferable if they either a) didn’t attempt a reconstruction at this phase or b) show the elements on both a herrerasaur-type and a “rauisuchian”-type skeleton.

]]> By: Mickey Mortimer http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/dinosaur/2011/08/the-dinosaur-that-wasnt/comment-page-1/#comment-4721 Mickey Mortimer Thu, 25 Aug 2011 02:45:01 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/dinosaur/?p=6205#comment-4721 "Remember Teratosaurus, anyone?" And Ornithosuchus, Shuvosaurus, Hallopus, Lisboasaurus and more than twenty others. Anyone else find it suspicious/misleading to use a dinosaur (Herrerasaurus) for the skeletal reconstruction and not identify Smok's relationships past Archosauria? “Remember Teratosaurus, anyone?” And Ornithosuchus, Shuvosaurus, Hallopus, Lisboasaurus and more than twenty others.

Anyone else find it suspicious/misleading to use a dinosaur (Herrerasaurus) for the skeletal reconstruction and not identify Smok’s relationships past Archosauria?

]]> By: Anonymous http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/dinosaur/2011/08/the-dinosaur-that-wasnt/comment-page-1/#comment-4720 Anonymous Wed, 24 Aug 2011 17:14:20 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/dinosaur/?p=6205#comment-4720 Even better, this is at least the third time a rauisuchian or other predator crocodylimorph has been mistaken for a theropod dinosaur. Remember Teratosaurus, anyone? Even better, this is at least the third time a rauisuchian or other predator crocodylimorph has been mistaken for a theropod dinosaur. Remember Teratosaurus, anyone?

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