Naashoibitosaurus

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Naashoibitosaurus

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Author: Moondawg

Keywords: extinct animals

Date Released: Dec 2 2008

Current NaashoibitosaurusMD_2008.ztd dated 27 November 2008

File Size: 6.16mb

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Description : Naashoibitosaurus (meaning in Navajo na'asho'i "lizard creek") is a genus of hadrosaurid dinosaur that lived about 73 million years ago,
Naashoibitosaurus, based as it is on a single partial skeleton, is not well-known in terms of anatomy. Its skull, the most thoroughly described portion, has a low nasal crest that peaks in front of the eyes, but does not strongly arch as in Gryposaurus.

Naashoibitosaurus is a hadrosaurine hadrosaurid, a "flat-headed or solid-crested duckbill". It is closest to the solid-crested forms like Saurolophus. If it is the same as Kritosaurus, Kritosaurus would be used because it is the older name, but its position vis-a-vis other duckbills would be the same.

Befitting a genus with a confusing taxonomic history, the name of this genus is based on an error. David Gillette and David Thomas collected the type and only known specimen from what was thought to be the Naashoibito Member of the Kirtland Formation, the youngest member of the Kirtland; this was commemorated in the name. Instead, it came from the older, late Campanian-age De-na-zin Member. Horner described the skull in 1992 as that of an immature Kritosaurus, using it as evidence that Gryposaurus was different from Kritosaurus. At the same time, Hunt and Lucas were describing the postcrania as belonging to Edmontosaurus saskatchewanensis. When the disconnect became apparent, Hunt and Lucas gave the specimen its own generic name, because the skull did not agree with an edmontosaur, and they considered Kritosaurus indeterminate and thus not usable.

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Additional info:

NaashoibitosaurusMD_2008.ztd                                uca: 7D88A985 dated 27 November 2008

Results From Configuration Checking:

7d88a985.uca date: Thu Nov 27 23:38:14 2008
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Animal Type: 7D88A985

Naashoibitosaurus

Naashoibitosaurus, based as it is on a single partial skeleton, is not
well-known in terms of anatomy. Its skull, the most thoroughly described
portion, has a low nasal crest that peaks in front of the eyes, but does not
strongly arch as in Gryposaurus.
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Animal Characteristics:

Habitat: Deciduous Forest; Location: North America; Era: Cretaceous
Minimum happiness needed for chance of breeding: 90.
Animal can jump.
Animal can climb cliffs.
Cannot be used in original Zoo Tycoon: cKeeperFoodType (8) is not 0 to 5.

Exhibit Preferences:

Foliage:
Wild Olive Tree, Elm Tree, Pacific Dogwood Tree, Cherry Tree, Maple Tree
Thornless Mesquite Tree, Birch Tree, Trembling Aspen Tree, Globe Willow Tree
Japanese Maple Tree, Deciduous Bush, Weeping Willow Tree, White Oak Tree
Broadleaf Bush, Gingko Tree (DD), Glossopteris Tree (DD), Magnolia Tree (DD)
Monkey Puzzle Tree (DD), Bonsai (CC), Snowbell Tree (CC)

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, Deciduous Forest Rock - Formation

Exhibit Construction:

Number of animals allowed per exhibit: 3-5 with 70 squares for each adult.

Exhibit size (for 3 adults): 210 grid squares

Terrain (for exhibit with 210 grid squares):
136 Deciduous Floor, 21 Dirt, 21 Fresh Water, 32 Grass

Foliage (for exhibit with 210 grid squares):
15 grid squares should contain foliage.
Foliage that would give the most happiness: Magnolia Tree (DD)
Since this is a small plant, greatest happiness will occur
if each of the 15 grid squares contains 4 of this plant.

Rocks (for exhibit with 210 grid squares):
8 Small Rock - Small, which is its most liked rock.