Megalosaurus

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Megalosaurus

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Author: Moondawg

Keywords: extinct animals

Date Released: Dec 29 2008

Current MegalosaurusMD_2008.ztd dated 28 December 2008

File Size: 10.67mb

Compatibility: DD and CC

Description: Megalosaurus (meaning "Great Lizard", from Greek,megalo- meaning 'big', 'tall' or 'great' and sauros meaning 'lizard') is a genus of large meat-eating theropod dinosaurs of the Middle Jurassic Period (Bathonian) o
Megalosaurus was the first dinosaur to be described. Part of a bone was recovered from a limestone quarry at Cornwell near Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, England in 1676. The fragment was sent to Robert Plot, Professor of Chemistry at the University of Oxford and first curator of the Ashmolean Museum, who published a description in his Natural History of Oxfordshire in 1677. He correctly identified the bone as the lower extremity of the femur of a large animal and he recognized that it was too large to belong to any known species; he considered it to be the thigh bone of a giant. The bone has since been lost but the illustration is detailed enough to identify it clearly as the femur of a Megalosaurus.

The Cornwell bone was described again by Richard Brookes in 1763. He named it Scrotum humanum, while describing its similar appearance to a pair of human testicles. The label was not considered to be a "name" for the animal in question at the time, and was not used in subsequent literature. Technically, the name was published after the advent of binomial nomenclature, and although this name theoretically had priority over Megalosaurus, the rules of the ICZN state that if a name falls into disuse for 50 years after publication, it is no longer in competition for priority. Therefore, the name Scrotum humanum is a nomen oblitum, or "forgotten name".

More discoveries were made, starting in 1815, again at the Stonesfield quarry. They were acquired by William Buckland, Professor of Geology at the University of Oxford and dean of Christ Church. He did not know to what animal the bones belonged but, in 1818, after the Napoleonic Wars, the French comparative anatomist Georges Cuvier visited Buckland in Oxford and realised that the bones belonged to a giant lizard-like creature. Buckland then published descriptions of the bones in Transactions of the Geological Society, in 1824 (Physician James Parkinson had described them in an article in 1822).

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MegalosaurusMD_2008.ztd                                uca: 72724026 dated 28 December 2008

Results From Configuration Checking:

72724026.uca date: Sun Dec 28 17:22:38 2008
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Animal Type: 72724026

Megalosaurus

Megalosaurus (meaning "Great Lizard", from Greek,megalo- meaning 'big', 'tall'
or 'great' and sauros meaning 'lizard') is a genus of large meat-eating
theropod dinosaurs of the Middle Jurassic Period (Bathonian) of Europe
(Southern England, France, Portugal).
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Animal Characteristics:

Habitat: Rainforest; Location: Europe; Era: Jurassic
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:
Mangrove Tree, Elephant Ear Tree, Foxtail Palm Tree, Rainforest Bush
Rainforest Fern, Orchid Tree, Thouarsus Cycad Tree (DD), Fern Bush (DD)
Leptocycas Tree (DD), Williamsonia Tree (DD), Fallen Rainforest Tree (ES)
Rainforest Stump (ES), Rafflesia (ES), Giant Ficus Tree (ES)
Durian Tree (ES)

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, Rainforest Rock - Formation
Mossy Rainforest Rock (ES), Limestone Rock (ES)

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):
96 Rainforest Floor, 16 Dirt, 24 Grass, 8 Fresh Water, 16 Coniferous Floor

Foliage (for exhibit with 160 grid squares):
8 grid squares should contain foliage.
Foliage that would give the most happiness: Rainforest Bush
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):
1 Stone Ruins, which is its most liked rock,
and 5 Small Rock - Small.

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