Posted by Jurassosaurus [148.64.23.91 - vsat-148-64-23-91.c050.t7.mrt.starband.net] on 16 January 2004 at 23.07.37 ZuluTime:

In Reply to: What's New posted by Gremlin on 16 January 2004 at 21.04.59 ZuluTime:

Unfortunately, the Pliensbachian isn't actually done yet, IRL. We know, to date, that Cryolophosaurus elliotti were hunting down plateosaurs five hundred miles from today's McMurdo Station in Antarctica; what I haven't managed to find out from anyone is what in hell these plateosaurids were. According to one report, they were 'padasaurus', which, naturally, exist only in that one report: So we found that and then we found parts of another dinosaur, a plant-eating dinosaur, called a Prosauropod, which is a Padasaurus, Brontosaurus, those are the big Sauropods. I don't get how this sentence works, but I suspect that 'a Padasaurus' is a mistranscription of Apatosaurus by someone who wasn't really understanding the words in general. Not that Apatosaurus exculsus [or the fabled Brontosaurus ajax] were prosauropods. So I'm a bit confused about all this.
      Presuming that there were no Plateosaurus engelhardti in Antarctica, this animal [along with the various scavenger deinosaurs hinted after in the same time and place] remains undesignated. Which is fine for discussing bones; describing living animals...it doesn't really work to write about a C.elliotti chasing after a six-metre, half-tonne plateosaurid thingy. I mean...I could do it, since the plateosaurid is effectively food, in this context; I tend not to worry about the species of strawberry an H.sapiens would feed to an I.i.iguana, but I might mention the R.norvegicus the same guy feeds to a V.niloticus. It's just something about things being part of the animalia, I guess.