What dinosaur lived in your neighborhood?
July 12, 2001 10:26 AM   Subscribe

 
Ichthyosaurus
Lived about 230-65 million years ago.

bad-ass dolphin. My neighborhood used to be an inland sea.
posted by th3ph17 at 10:30 AM on July 12, 2001


it seems that theropods have lived in all my former and current neighborhoods...

(am I the only person who can't read all the dino description text in the popup boxes? it looks like it continues for more than one screen but I get no scrollbars. I'm in unix, so maybe that's why.)
posted by rabi at 10:34 AM on July 12, 2001


Iggy Pop.
Although I just googled that he's moved to Miami.
posted by spandex at 10:48 AM on July 12, 2001


hmmm... nothing but sauropods where I live now. And, happily, stegosaurii in my hometown.

And I'm having the same trouble with the pop ups in IE 5.5, so it's not a Unix issue. Hopefully, they'll fix that, because this is a great site. I wish it had been around when I was twelve.
posted by varmint at 10:53 AM on July 12, 2001


I live in a place that only had general groups of dinosaurs (theropods and ornithischians - ornithischians are a huge group of dinosaurs, so bviously they're not really sure exactly what lived in mid-michigan), which is to be expected since there aren't a lot of good dinosaur fossil sites in Michigan. This site is a whole lot cooler if you live someplace where they've actually found dinosaur bones.

On the other hand, I can tell you that where I live now used to be home to coral and shell fish. I've got the fossils in my basement to prove it.
posted by iceberg273 at 11:22 AM on July 12, 2001


gerry ford
posted by clavdivs at 11:29 AM on July 12, 2001


" This site is a whole lot cooler if you live someplace where they've actually found dinosaur bones."

Not necessarily. Where I live, we hear about Dinosaurs (local and otherwise) all the time. It does tend to lose its fascinating flavor when you pull up the list and say "Ahh, they left out a bunch of 'em".
posted by Wulfgar! at 12:17 PM on July 12, 2001


Not necessarily. Where I live, we hear about Dinosaurs (local and otherwise) all the time.

Right, but Montana is a dinosaur-ish area of the country (I grew up just north of you in Alberta). Here in Michigan we have no nearby dinosaur fossil sites (due to a lack of Mesozoic sediments). So when I comes to telling a Michigander what dinosaurs were nearby, you'd have to name a broad category of dinosaurs, rather than a specific species. So you can't tell someone from Michigan "yeah, you probably had Albertosaurus around here" like you could tell somebody from Montana. Instead you have to say, "Well, you probably had some sort of theropod". And that's not as much fun, because it doesn't narrow it down.

It's like saying, "there are mule deer that live around here" as compared to "there are artiodactyls around here." One is neat, the other is still neat, but leaves you thinking, "Couldn't you be a little more specific?"

Of course, they can't be. Stupid fossil record.

It does tend to lose its fascinating flavor when you pull up the list and say "Ahh, they left out a bunch of 'em".

Or when you look at the list, see Ornithischians, and think, "Oh, stegosaurs, ankylosaurs, ornithopods, , hadrosaurs, pachycephalosaurs, and ceratopsians. Well, we're covering all our bases, now aren't we?"
posted by iceberg273 at 12:50 PM on July 12, 2001


"Stupid fossil record."

That's it, my new project is to piece together an audio clip of Jack Horner
saying those words!!!
posted by Wulfgar! at 1:05 PM on July 12, 2001


That's it, my new project is to piece together an audio clip of Jack Horner saying those words!!!

That, my friend, is a noble goal. I wish you success.
posted by iceberg273 at 1:19 PM on July 12, 2001


interesting:
if I stare at that Jack Horner picture long enough, I can transform the face into another Jack Horner.
posted by padjet1 at 7:03 PM on July 12, 2001


Cool! Allosaurus and Terontosaurus here in DC!
posted by prototype_octavius at 5:24 AM on July 13, 2001


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