Suchomimus

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Suchomimus

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Author: Moondawg

Keywords: extinct animals, dinosaurs

Date Released: Feb 18 2009

Current SuchomimusMD_2008.ztd dated 3 November 2008

File Size: 6.57mb

Compatibility: DD and CC

Description: Suchomimus ("crocodile mimic") is a genus of large spinosaurid dinosaur with a crocodile-like mouth that lived 110 to 120 million years ago, during the middle portion of the Cretaceous period in Africa.
Suchomimus.Unlike most giant theropods, Suchomimus had a very long, low snout and narrow jaws studded with some 100 teeth, not very sharp and curving slightly backward. The tip of the snout was enlarged and carried a "rosette" of longer teeth. The animal is reminiscent of crocodilians that eat mainly fish, such as the living gharial, a type of large crocodile with a very long, slim snout, from the region of India.

Suchomimus also had a tall extension of its vertebrae which may have held up some kind of low flap, ridge or sail of skin, as seen in much more exaggerated form in Spinosaurus. Detailed study shows that the specimen of Suchomimus was a subadult about 11 meters (36 ft) in length, but scientists think that it may have grown to about 12 meters (40 ft) long, approaching the size of Tyrannosaurus. The overall impression is of a massive and powerful creature that ate fish and presumably other sorts of meat (carrion, if naught else) more than 100 million years ago, when the Sahara was a lush, swampy habitat.

Suchomimus has been placed among the spinosaurids, a group of predator-scavengers adapted for hunting fish but with frail bone structures (particularly their skulls), especially when compared to other similarly sized theropods, like the tyrannosaurids. Apart from the back ridge, Suchomimus was very similar to the spinosaurid Baryonyx which also had strong forelimbs and a huge sickle-curved claw on its "thumb". And, as with Baryonyx, the claw was the first fossil part to be noticed by palaeontologists. Suchomimus was considerably larger than Baryonyx, but a few paleontologists have suggested that the latter might almost have been a juvenile of the former.

After discovering new specimens of Carcharodontosaurus and Sarcosuchus, Chicago-based palaeontologist Paul Sereno and his team added a discovery in 1997. In the Sahara, near the Tenere Desert in Niger, they found fossils that represented about two-thirds of the skeleton of a huge meat-eater. This was named Suchomimus ("crocodile mimic") after the shape of its head.

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Additional info:

SuchomimusMD_2008.ztd                         uca: 3154C2FB dated 30 November 2008

Results From Configuration Checking:

3154c2fb.uca date: Sun Nov 30 19:30:56 2008
No Errors or Warnings to show.
Animal Type: 3154C2FB

Suchomimus

Suchomimus.Unlike most giant theropods, Suchomimus had a very long, low snout
and narrow jaws studded with some 100 teeth, not very sharp and curving
slightly backward. The tip of the snout was enlarged and carried a "rosette"
of longer teeth. The animal is reminiscent of crocodilians that eat mainly
fish, such as the living gharial, a type of large crocodile with a very long,
slim snout, from the region of India.
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Animal Characteristics:

Habitat: Coniferous Forest; Location: Africa; Era: Cretaceous
Minimum happiness needed for chance of breeding: 96.
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, 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, Coniferous Forest Rock - Formation
Medium Coniferous Rock (DD)

Exhibit Construction:

Number of animals allowed per exhibit: 2-3 with 80 squares for each adult.

Exhibit size (for 2 adults): 160 grid squares

Terrain (for exhibit with 160 grid squares):
96 Coniferous Floor, 16 Dirt, 16 Fresh Water, 32 Grass

Foliage (for exhibit with 160 grid squares):
13 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 13 grid squares contains 4 of this plant.

Rocks (for exhibit with 160 grid squares):
13 Small Rock - Small, which is its most liked rock.