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Eotyrannus

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Author: Moondawg

Keywords: Extinct animals, dinosaurs

Date Released: Dec 25 2008

Current EotyrannusMD_2008.ztd dated 21 December 2008

File Size: 6.98mb

Compatibility: DD and CC

Description: Eotyrannus ("dawn tyrant") was a tyrannosauroid theropod dinosaur hailing from the Early Cretaceous Wessex Formation beds, included in Wealden Group, located in the southwest coast of the Isle of Wight, United Kingdom.
The remains, consisting of assorted skull, axial skeleton and apendicular skeleton elements, from a juvenile or subadult, found in a plant debris clay bed, was described by Hutt et al. in early 2001. The etymology of the generic name refers to the animal's character as an "early tyrant", while the specific epithet is a mention to the discoverer of the fossil. Eotyrannus is a 6 meter-long theropod whose tyrannosauroid character is given by serrated premaxillary teeth with a D cross section, proportionally elongate tibiae and metatarsals. Primitive characters for Tyrannosauroidea are the elongate neck vertebrae and the long well developed arms forelimbs along with the undecorated dorsal surface of the skull, unlike the more advanced tyrannosaurids. However this animal, proportionally, has one of the longest hands in Theropoda known to date.

This theropod would be a probable predator of such herbivorous dinosaurs as Hypsilophodon and Iguanodon.

E. lengi's find corroborates the notion that early tyrannosaurs were gracile with long forelimbs and three-fingered grasping hands, though the large size of the animal either means that early evolution for this clade was carried out at a large size or Eotyrannus developed large size independently.[2] The find of this animal in Europe puts interesting questions to the purported Asian origin for these animals along with North American Stokesosaurus and European Aviatyrannis arguing for a more complex biogeography for tyrannosaurs.

Additional info:

EotyrannusMD_2008.ztd                              uca: 1DB895AA dated 21 December 2008

Results From Configuration Checking:

1db895aa.uca date: Sun Dec 21 11:53:22 2008
*** Warning: cHabitat does not have max [cSuitableObjects] habitat value.
Animal Type: 1DB895AA

Eotyrannus

The remains, consisting of assorted skull, axial skeleton and apendicular
skeleton elements, from a juvenile or subadult, found in a plant debris clay
bed, was described by Hutt et al. in early 2001. The etymology of the generic
name refers to the animal's character as an "early tyrant", while the specific
epithet is a mention to the discoverer of the fossil. Eotyrannus is a 6
meter-long theropod whose tyrannosauroid character is given by serrated
premaxillary teeth with a D cross section, proportionally elongate tibiae and
metatarsals. Primitive characters for Tyrannosauroidea are the elongate neck
vertebrae and the long well developed arms forelimbs along with the
undecorated dorsal surface of the skull, unlike the more advanced
tyrannosaurids. However this animal, proportionally, has one of the longest
hands in Theropoda known to date.
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Animal Characteristics:

Habitat: Rainforest; Location: Europe; 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, Stone Ruins, Coniferous Forest Rock - Formation
Medium Coniferous Rock (DD)

Other specifically liked items:
Waterfall Rock - Formation, Jungle Rock - Formation

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, 16 Dirt, 8 Fresh Water, 24 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.

Elevation: Of the 160 squares, 4 nonadjacent squares should be elevated.