Dryptosaurus
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Author: Moondawg
Keywords: extinct animals, dinosaurs
Date Released: Dec 28 2008
Current DryptosaurusMD_2008.ztd dated 2 December 2008
File Size: 6.98mb
Compatibility: DD and CC
Description: Dryptosaurus (meaning "tearing lizard") was a genus of primitive tyrannosaur that lived in Eastern North America during the Maastrichtian stage of the Late Cretaceous period.
An early painting of Dryptosaurus aquilunguis by Charles R. Knight.
Illustrated fossil remains of Dryptosaurus aquilunguis.Dryptosaurus was 6.5 m long, 1.8 m high at the hips, and weighed about 1.2 tons. Like its relative Eotyrannus, it had relatively long arms with three fingers. Each of these fingers was tipped by a talon-like 8 inch claw.
In 1866, an incomplete skeleton (ANSP 9995) was found in New Jersey by workers in a quarry. Paleontologist E.D. Cope described the remains, naming the creature "Laelaps" ("storm wind", after the dog in Greek mythology that never failed to catch what it was hunting). "Laelaps" became one of the first dinosaurs described from North America (following Hadrosaurus, Aublysodon and Trachodon). Subsequently, it was discovered that the name "Laelaps" had already been given to a species of mite, and Cope's lifelong rival O.C. Marsh changed the name in 1877 to Dryptosaurus.
Before the discovery of Appalachiosaurus,it was classified in a number of theropod families. Originally considered a megalosaurid by Cope, it was later assigned to its own family (Dryptosauridae) by Marsh, and later found (through phylogenetic studied of the 1990s) to be a coelurosaur, though its exact placement within that group remained uncertain. The discovery of the closely related (and more complete) Appalachiosaurus made it clear that Dryptosaurus was a primitive tyrannosauroid.
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Additional info:
DryptosaurusMD_2008.ztd uca: 31579985 dated 2 December 2008
Results From Configuration Checking:
31579985.uca date: Tue Dec 02 22:02:10 2008
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Animal Type: 31579985
Dryptosaurus
A famous painting of the genus by Charles R. Knight has made it one of the
more widely-known dinosaurs, in spite of its poor fossil record.
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Animal Characteristics:
Habitat: Coniferous Forest; Location: Eastern USA; Era: Cretaceous
Minimum happiness needed for chance of breeding: 97.
Animal can jump.
Animal can climb cliffs.
Cannot be used in original Zoo Tycoon: cKeeperFoodType (7) is not 0 to 5.
Exhibit Preferences:
Foliage:
Lodgepole Pine Tree, Fir Tree, Pine Tree, Yew Tree, Spruce Tree
Yellow Cedar Tree, Western Red Cedar Tree, Chinese Fir Tree, Pine Bush
Club Moss Shrub (DD), Walchian Conifer Tree (DD), Dawn Redwood Tree (DD)
Lepidodendron Tree (DD), Norfolk Island Pine Tree (DD)
Rocks:
Large Rock, Large Rock - 1, Large Rock - 2, Large Rock - 3, Large Rock - 4
Small Rock - Medium, Small Rock - Small, Small Rock - 7, Small Rock - 8
Small Rock - 9, Coniferous Forest Rock - Formation
Medium Coniferous Rock (DD)
Exhibit Construction:
Number of animals allowed per exhibit: 1-3 with 80 squares for each adult.
Exhibit size (for 2 adults): 160 grid squares
Terrain (for exhibit with 160 grid squares):
112 Coniferous Floor, 8 Gray Stone, 8 Fresh Water, 32 Grass
Foliage (for exhibit with 160 grid squares):
8 grid squares should contain foliage.
Foliage that would give the most happiness: Norfolk Island Pine Tree (DD)
Since this is a small plant, greatest happiness will occur
if each of the 8 grid squares contains 4 of this plant.
Rocks (for exhibit with 160 grid squares):
13 Small Rock - Small, which is its most liked rock.