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Author: Moondawg

Keywords: extinct animals

Date Released: Oct 30 2009

Current PolacanthusMD2009.ztd dated 29 October 2009

File Size: 2.01mb

Compatibility: All Game Versions

Description: Polacanthus, deriving its name from the Ancient Greek poly "many" and acantha "thorn" or "prickle", was an early armored, spiked, plant-eating ankylosaur from the early Cretaceous period.
It lived 132 to 112 million years ago in what is now western Europe.

Polacanthus grew to between 4 to 5 metres (13 to 16 ft) long. It was a quadrupedal ornithischian or "bird-hipped" dinosaur. There are not many fossil remains of this creature, and some important anatomical features, such as its skull, are poorly known.

Polacanthus had a large sacral shield, a single fused sheet of dermal bone over its hips (sacral area) which was not attached to the underlying bone and decorated with tubercles. This feature is shared with other Polacanthine dinosaurs such as Gastonia and Mymoorapelta.

Polacanthus foxii was discovered by the Reverend William Fox on the Isle of Wight in 1865. It was an incomplete skeleton with the head, neck, anterior armour and forelimbs missing. Two other partial skeletons have since been found. The second known specimen was found and excavated by Dr William T. Blows in 1979, and is also in the London Natural History Museum. It is the first specimen to show neck vertebrae and anterior armour.

P. rudgwickensis was named in 1996 by Dr. William T. Blows, after review of some fossil material found in 1985 and thought to have been Iguanodon, which was on display at the Horsham Museum in Sussex. The material is fragmentary and includes several incomplete vertebrae, partial scapulocoracoid, the distal end of humerus, a nearly complete right tibia, rib fragments, and two osteoderms. P. rudgwickensis seems to have been about 30% larger than type species P. foxii and differs from it in numerous characters of the vertebrae and dermal armor. It is named after the village of Rudgwick in West Sussex and was discovered at a Rudgwick Brickworks Company quarry, at the quarry floor in gray-green marl beds of the Wessex Formation. Barremian age, approximately 124-132 million years ago.

Additional info:

PolacanthusMD2009.ztd                          uca: 634AB057 dated 29 October 2009

Results From Configuration Checking:

634ab057.uca date: Thu Oct 29 21:59:44 2009
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Animal Type: 634AB057

Polacanthus

Polacanthus grew to between 4 to 5 metres (13 to 16 ft) long. It was a
quadrupedal ornithischian or "bird-hipped" dinosaur. There are not many fossil
remains of this creature, and some important anatomical features, such as its
skull, are poorly known.
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Animal Characteristics:

Habitat: Coniferous Forest; Location: Europe; 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 60 squares for each adult.

Exhibit size (for 3 adults): 180 grid squares

Terrain (for exhibit with 180 grid squares):
135 Coniferous Floor, 9 Sand, 9 Dirt, 9 Fresh Water, 18 Grass

Foliage (for exhibit with 180 grid squares):
9 grid squares should contain foliage.
Foliage that would give the most happiness: Dawn Redwood Tree (DD)
Since this is a small plant, greatest happiness will occur
if each of the 9 grid squares contains 4 of this plant.

Rocks (for exhibit with 180 grid squares):
1 Medium Coniferous Rock (DD), which is its most liked rock,
and 3 Small Rock - Small.

Elevation: Of the 180 squares, 2 nonadjacent squares should be elevated.