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Author: Moondawg

Keywords: extinct, dinosaurs

Date Released: Oct 28, 2008

Current TorosaurusMD_2008.ztd dated 27 October 2008

File Size: 7.62mb

Compatibility: DD or CC

Description: Torosaurus (meaning "perforated lizard") was a ceratopsid dinosaur genus. It had one of the largest skulls of any land animal known, reaching 8.5 feet (2.6 meters) in length.
Torosaurus belonged to the subfamily known as Chasmosaurinae, within the family Ceratopsidae, within the Ceratopsia (which name is Ancient Greek for "horned face"), a group of herbivorous dinosaurs with parrot-like beaks which thrived in North America and Asia during the Jurassic and Cretaceous Periods. Recent studies indicate that Torosaurus is most closely related to Triceratops.[3] Jack Horner has suggested in public lectures that Torosaurus may in fact represent the adult version of one sex of Triceratops, pointing out that there are no juvenile specimens of Torosaurus and that approximately 50% of all subadult Triceratops skulls have two thin areas in the frill that correspond with the placement of "holes" in Torosaurus skulls. The theory is that all Tricertops had solid frills up to adulthood, but on reaching sexual maturity, one sex or the other would have developed longer frills as a form of display. To counterbalance the extra weight of the elongated frill, holes would have necessarily developed in the bone. While this theory does explain the absence of any Torosaurus specimens younger than adults and also explains the even split between uniformly thick frills and frills with thin patches in subadult Triceratops specimens, the theory is not widely accepted in the scientific community and has apparently not been put forward by Dr. Horner outside of informal lectures.

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TorosaurusMD_2008.ztd                                uca: 2E7A279B dated 27 October 2008

Results From Configuration Checking:

2e7a279b.uca date: Mon Oct 27 19:45:06 2008
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Animal Type: 2E7A279B

Torosaurus

It had one of the largest skulls of any land animal known, reaching 8.5 feet
(2.6 meters) in length. Recently, a large (~10 ft.) Pentaceratops skull was
thought to have surpassed the skull of Torosaurus in length. However, the
frill of this Pentaceratops specimen is largely incomplete and highly
reconstructed, thereby making any certain length measurements sketchy at best.
From head to tail, Torosaurus probably measured about 25 feet (7.6 meters)
long and weighed an estimated 4.4 to 6.6 tons (4 to 6 tonnes).
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Animal Characteristics:

Habitat: Savannah; Location: North America; Era: Cretaceous
Minimum happiness needed for chance of breeding: 99.
Animal can jump.
Cannot be used in original Zoo Tycoon: cKeeperFoodType (8) is not 0 to 5.

Exhibit Preferences:

Foliage:
Thorn Bush, Umbrella Thorn Tree, Tall Grass, Grass Tree, Sigillaria Tree (DD)
Senegal Date Palm (ES)

Rocks:
Large Rock, Small Rock - Medium, Small Rock - Small
Medium Savannah Rock (DD), Termite Mound (ES)

Exhibit Construction:

Number of animals allowed per exhibit: 2-6 with 80 squares for each adult.

Exhibit size (for 2 adults): 160 grid squares

Terrain (for exhibit with 160 grid squares):
104 Savannah Grass, 16 Sand, 24 Dirt, 16 Fresh Water

Foliage (for exhibit with 160 grid squares):
14 grid squares should contain foliage.
Foliage that would give the most happiness: Sigillaria Tree (DD)
Since this is a small plant, greatest happiness will occur
if each of the 14 grid squares contains 4 of this plant.

Rocks (for exhibit with 160 grid squares):
13 Small Rock - Small, which is its most liked rock.