User:DeinonychusDinosaur999

If you want to see more dinosaurs, visit Pterosauria, my blog, at pterosauria.wordpress.com. We update every week or sooner with nearly 10 posts and we try to update the basic information on new dinosaur discoveries, new hypotheses and my opinions.

SEMI-RETIRED

This user is no longer very active on Wikipedia as of September 5, 2010.

What is to Come: Tyrant dinosaur newsflash, was T. rex smart and swift? And why T. rex was the best dino ever!

Greetings, I am DeinonychusDinosaur999 or Taylor Duane Reints, although I might be better known as TDReints. I love dinosaurs, more particularly the theropods and tyrannosauroids. My hobbies include writing and studying (tyrannosaurs). I try giving as much as my information to the public as possible, with my paleo-art restored with rightly-angled joints, no "bunny style hands" and no "the whole tyrannosaur is going to be covered in nothing but scales".

I follow Gregory S. Paul with his believes of the tyrannosaurs. After all, if it was some animal that moved at less than 10 miles an hour would it of been extinct with the first few hundred years of its existence because it was so slow that it couldn't catch anything (Nobody please tell me that its prey was slower than it, because Triceratops had a maximum speed of 25 mph, because they could probably do a slow gallop)? An explanation is in the section "Stupid and Slow or Smart and Swift?"

Current Signature

• Taylor Reints ^{My Talk}/_{My Assistance}

Feather Freak

You might as well call me a feather freak, I give every heterodontosaur, known to man, feathers. Also: ceratosaurs, carnosaurs, ceratopsids, dryosaurids, sauropodomorphs, I even give eoraptorids and primitive archosaurs (such as Euparkeria) feathers. I also give tyrannosaurids feathers, because 1): its ancestors had them and 2): it needed some kind of display, right?

Recent Work

• I'm starting to get even more interested in non-tyrannoraptor coelurosaurs (primitive feathered dinosaurs).

• I'm ruling out the possibility of Eoraptor being a juvenile Herrerasaurus. I discuss it on Pterosauria. [1]

• I have concluded that Appalachiosaurus is inside the genus Albertosaurus, but it still remains in the same subgenus, Appalachiosaurus. I have a post about it here.

• I analyzed the skulls of Bistahieversor and Albertosaurus libratus by comparing them and I have concluded that Bistahieversor is actually a member of the Albertosaurus clan, so it's now being renamed (by me, anyway), Albertosaurus libratus sealeyi or Albertosaurus sealeyi.

My Kind of News

• Raptorex has been concluded as a juvenile Tyrannosaurus bataar by Dr. Kenneth Carpenter.

• MAJOR NEWS! An unnamed, new tyrannosaur has been found in Poland and has been dated to 200 million years, making it the oldest known tetanurine! This tyrannosaur was a behemoth for its time, 15 feet long, approaching the size of the dilophosaurids, it was awesomely (and easily) the top apex predator of its land at the time.

• An unnamed, new tyrannosaur has been dated to the Early Cretaceous and was found in Australia!

• As yet, another unnamed tyrannosaur (possibly an unnamed taxon of Daspletosaurus) has been found in the Two Medicine Formation of Montana, and dated to 75 million years ago.

• The newly-discovered Bistahieversor of New Mexico, may be a tyrannosaurid and possibly the ancestor to Tyrannosaurus rex.

• The discovery of Kileskus, sets forth that a new family be established in Tyrannosauroidea: Proceratosauridae; consisting of it, Guanlong and Proceratosaurus.

Interests

By know, I'm sure you know I like tyrannosaurs, my favorite dinosaur of all time is T. rex, I'm sure its better than Spinosaurus, Carcharodontosaurus, Giganotosaurus or any other, here are the reasons:

1. T. rex was smarter than any of these animals, for spinosaurs were the most primitive form of tetanurine, while carnosaurs were right in the middle of spinosaurs and tyrannosaurs in terms of how advanced they were.

2. T. rex had a bone crushing bite, while spinosaurs and carnosaurs had a flesh-snipping bite.

3. T. rex had a septic bite like the Komodo monitor, unlike any of the other contenders.

4. T. rex was ultimately swift among carnosaurs and spinosaurs

5. Tyrannosauroids are the most successful superfamily of dinosaurs, ever, living from 200 million years ago, right up to the K-T mass extinction, a total of 134.49 million years. Allosauroids, coming out in second (such as Giganotosaurus and Carcharodontosaurus), evolved 176 million years ago and died out five million years before the tyrannosauroids did, living for 106 million years. Coming out in third are the megalosauroids which lived from 170 to 93.5 million years ago, existing for 76.5 million years.

This is my most favored battle ever in the history (or prehistory) of the Earth: Tyrannosaurus rex versus Triceratops horridus

6. Giganotosaurus is not known to be larger than T. rex, it is based upon fragmentary remains so T. rex, at our current time, may be the largest of the two.

and last but not least,

7. Spinosaurus size was large but it probably was mostly a scavenger.

Okay, back to interests. Tyrannosaurs are my favorite because of the reasons listed above. Extremely extraordinary, right, but then again size is not always the winner in T. rex. Spino and maybe even Giganotosaurus are larger than T. rex. Maybe even more complete material of the deinocheir may place it as the largest theropod. Speaking of Interests here's the section I was talking about earlier:

Stupid and Slow or Smart and Swift?

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Here are my arguments for T. rex being a fast and cunning predator. My first reason: A leg bone of a T. rex has holes in it that could of been used to lighten the legs (like fenestrae in dinosaur skulls), making lift its legs up more easily. Second reason: If Tyrannosaurus rex was slow and elephantine-like - the legs would be completely strait not curved. I'm not saying Tyrannosaurus is reaching 50 mph but at the least for its maximum speed would be 20-25 miles an hour.

My reasons for suggesting this animal is smart:

T. rex was very smart in terms of the animal kingdom, its brain does not represent nothing but problem-solving, like raptors, but a rather smart animal. T. rex's eye sight is extraordinary, because the way its head was placed gave it great binocular vision, also to support this is that a CAT scan of its brain case concluded it had a very large optic nerve (Horner believes that the nerve was too small, though this is out-dated garbage). T. rex had a great smell too. Because, the nasal bone has scratches in it, suggesting hundreds of tiny, super-sensitive "sniffers" on it (Horner thinks that T. rex used this great sense of smell for nothing more than sniffing out dead carcasses from miles away, but this is also garbage). All this concludes that Tyrannosaurus rex was not smarter than a fifth grader but about as smart as the modern domestic cat. This suggests to me that it was an ambush hunter and very patient, like the modern lioness.

Just in case your Interested...

These are some external links I bookmarked on my computer. And if you like dinosaurs (or tyrant dinosaurians!) these may be for you!

Paleoart and Paleontologist's sites

• Paleoartist Karen Carr's Site
• Prehistorics Illustrated
• Kent Stevens's Paleontology Site

General sites and FAQs

• Fossil Wiki
• Planet Dinosaur
• Dinosauria online
• Rareresource Dinosaur Site
• Hairy Museum of Natural History
• What were the longest/heaviest predatory dinosaurs?

Dinosaur Anatomy

• Brain & behaviour of dinosaurs
• Unearthing T. rex
• Dinosaur Anatomical Dictionary

Particlular Dinosaur sites and articles

• Article about the 200 million year old tyrannosaur I was discussing earlier
• Spinosaurus Website
• T. rex - EnchantedLearning

Awards

• 
  The Original Barnstar - For finding my hidden subpage, this barnstar is for you. The Raptor ^{Let's talk}/_{My mistakes; I mean, er, contributions} 02:05, 28 July 2010 (UTC)

Connect

You can send me a message on my Wikipedia talk page or email me at pterosauriablog@gmail.com

Reason for Semi-Retirement

I've been caught up in my blog, Pterosauria, recently and due to this, I'm not of Wikipedia that much anymore, but as soon as I get some more posts on there, I should come out of semi-retirement.