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Author: Moondawg

Keywords: extinct, dinosaurs

Date Released: Nov 21 2008

Current EuoplocephalusMD_2008.ztd dated 19 November 2008

File Size: 7.86mb

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Description: It has been said that the herbivores and carnivores forced each other to evolve in a rapid escalating battle of armor vs. firepower.
If this is the case, and it seems very likely it is, then a very successful biological armored vehicle was Euoplocephalus.

Pronounced you-op-luh-SEF-uh-lus the name means "well protected head. This tank-like creature was from the late Cretaceous and is in the Ankylosaur family. It was believed to weigh in the 3 to 5 ton range and averaged 20 feet in length and maybe 8 or 9 feet in width.

What is unusual is that this heavily armored dinosaur was very likely totally immune to the attack of the large carnivores like T rex. It's strategy may well have been to first try and use it's bony and spiked tail to dissuade its attacker and then if that didn't work to simply hanker down in the sand or earth, protect its head and just out wait its adversary. As a side note there have been T rex leg bones found that were fractured in just the manner that Euoplocephalus would have done if it connected in a fight.

This species was the long end product of a very successful weeding out of less successful creatures. If it was for the Extinction Event that took out all of the dinosaurs this creatures descendants may well have been alive to this day. That is if the plants continued to survive. At this time (app. 70 MYA) we would have found cycads, tree ferns, bonze pines, katsura trees, and large conifers. but perhaps the defining tree would have been the bald cypress. These plants only thrived in humid and warm conditions and this is where these armored dinosaurs would have flourished.

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Additional info:

EuoplocephalusMD_2008.ztd                              uca: 53DA2985 dated 19 November 2008

Results From Configuration Checking:

53da2985.uca date: Wed Nov 19 21:24:04 2008
No Errors or Warnings to show.
Animal Type: 53DA2985

Euoplocephalus

It has been said that the herbivores and carnivores forced each other to
evolve in a rapid escalating battle of armor vs. firepower. If this is the
case, and it seems very likely it is, then a very successful biological
armored vehicle was Euoplocephalus.
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Animal Characteristics:

Habitat: Coniferous Forest; Location: North America; Era: Cretaceous
Minimum happiness needed for chance of breeding: 97.
Cannot be used in original Zoo Tycoon: cKeeperFoodType (8) 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, Coniferous Forest Rock - Formation
Medium Coniferous Rock (DD)

Exhibit Construction:

Number of animals allowed per exhibit: 3-10 with 40 squares for each adult.

Exhibit size (for 3 adults): 120 grid squares

Terrain (for exhibit with 120 grid squares):
96 Coniferous Floor, 6 Dirt, 6 Sand, 12 Fresh Water

Foliage (for exhibit with 120 grid squares):
6 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 6 grid squares contains 4 of this plant.

Rocks (for exhibit with 120 grid squares):
5 Small Rock - Small, which is its most liked rock.