Alamosaurus

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Alamosaurus

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Author: Moondawg

Keywords: extinct animals

Release Date: Dec 16 2008

Current AlamosaurusMD_2008.ztd dated 9 December 2008

File Size: 8.47mb

Compatibility: All Game Versions

Description: Alamosaurus, ("meaning "Alamo lizard"), is a genus of titanosaurian sauropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous Period of what is now North America.
Contrary to popular assertions, this dinosaur is not named after the Alamo in San Antonio, Texas, or the battle that was fought there. The holotype, or original specimen, was discovered in New Mexico and, at the time of its naming, Alamosaurus had not yet been found in Texas. Instead, the name Alamosaurus comes from Ojo Alamo, the former name for the geologic formation in which it was found (that part of the Ojo Alamo Formation has since been reassigned to Kirtland Shale) and which was, in turn, named after the nearby Ojo Alamo trading post. The term alamo itself is a Spanish word meaning "poplar" and is used for the local subspecies of cottonwood tree. The term saurus is derived from saura , Greek for "lizard" and is the most common suffix used in dinosaur names. There is one species (A. sanjuanensis), which is named after San Juan County, New Mexico, where the first remains were found. Both genus and species were named by Smithsonian paleontologist Charles W. Gilmore in 1922.

Alamosaurus is undoubtedly a derived member of Titanosauria, but relationships within that group are far from certain. One major analysis unites Alamosaurus with Opisthocoelicaudia in a subfamily Opisthocoelicaudinae of the family Saltasauridae (Wilson, 2002). A major competing analysis finds Alamosaurus as a sister taxon to Pellegrinisaurus, with both genera located just outside Saltasauridae (Upchurch et al., 2004). Other scientists have also noted particular similarities with the saltasaurid Neuquensaurus and the BrazilianTrigonosaurus (the "Peiropolis titanosaur") which is used in many cladistic and morphologic analyses of titanosaurians (Lehman and Coulson, 2002).

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AlamosaurusMD_2008.ztd                                     uca: 2E776E28 dated 9 December 2008

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2e776e28.uca date: Tue Dec 09 18:01:12 2008
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Animal Type: 2E776E28

Alamosaurus

It was a large quadrupedal herbivore, up to 53 feet (16 m) in length and up to
33 tons (30 metric tonnes) in weight. Alamosaurus, like other sauropods, had a
long neck and a long tail, which may have ended in a 'whiplash' structure
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Animal Characteristics:

Habitat: Coniferous Forest; 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 (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, Broadleaf Bush
Pine Bush, Club Moss Shrub (DD), Walchian Conifer Tree (DD)
Dawn Redwood Tree (DD), Lepidodendron Tree (DD), Monkey Puzzle 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, Deciduous Forest Rock - Formation
Coniferous Forest Rock - Formation, Medium Coniferous Rock (DD)

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):
104 Coniferous Floor, 8 Dirt, 8 Fresh Water, 16 Deciduous Floor, 24 Grass

Foliage (for exhibit with 160 grid squares):
10 grid squares should contain foliage.
Foliage that would give the most happiness: Walchian Conifer Tree (DD)
Since this is a small plant, greatest happiness will occur
if each of the 10 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, 2 nonadjacent squares should be elevated.