Melanorosaurus

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Melanorosaurus

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Author: Moondawg

Keywords: dinosaurs

Release Date: Sep 28 2009

Current MelanorosaurusMD_2009.ztd dated 4 March 2009

File Size: 8.34mb

Compatibility: All Game Versions

Description: A herbivore from South Africa, it had a great body and sturdy limbs, suggesting it moved about on all fours. Limb bones were massive and weighty, like sauropod limb bones.
Melanorosaurus, "Black Mountain Lizard", from the (Greek melano "black", "mountain" + saurus"lizard", was a 12 meter long sauropod dinosaur that lived in the Late Triassic period. A herbivore from South Africa, it had a great body and sturdy limbs, suggesting it moved about on all fours. Limb bones were massive and weighty, like sauropod limb bones.
But, like most sauropods vertebrae, its spinal bones had hollows that helped reduce weight. Unfortunately, a skull has not been found to date.

The type specimen was described in 1924, having been collected from the Upper Triassic Elliot Formation on the north slope of the Thaba 'Nyama (Black Mountain) in Transkei,
South Africa. It wasn't until 2007 when the first complete skull of Melanorosaurus was described. Two species are known: M. readi, the type species, and M. thabanensis.

Melanorosaurus was once classified as a prosauropod, but is now recognized as one of the
earliest known sauropods. Once thought to be an ancestral basal assemblage to the sauropods, differences in e.g. the design of their ankle bones point out that these are sister groups. Basal sauropods such as Melanorosaurus, Anchisaurus and Antetonitrus are
intermediate between these groups.

Melanorosaurus had a skull which measured approximately 250 mm. The snout was somewhat
pointed, and the skull was somewhat triangular when seen from above or below. The premaxilla had four teeth on each side, a characteristic of primitive sauropodomorphs. The
maxilla had 19 teeth on each side of the jaw.

Melanorosaurus was around 12 meters long.

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Additional info:

MelanorosaurusMD_2009.ztd                  uca: B2398026 dated 4 March 2009

Results From Configuration Checking:

b2398026.uca date: Wed Mar 04 22:07:10 2009
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Animal Type: B2398026

Melanorosaurus

A herbivore from South Africa, it had a great body and sturdy limbs,
suggesting it
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Animal Characteristics:

Habitat: Deciduous Forest; Location: Africa; Era: Triassic
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:
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), Norfolk Island Pine 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: 1-3 with 100 squares for each adult.

Exhibit size (for 2 adults): 200 grid squares

Terrain (for exhibit with 200 grid squares):
140 Deciduous Floor, 10 Sand, 10 Grass, 20 Fresh Water, 20 Dirt

Foliage (for exhibit with 200 grid squares):
12 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 12 grid squares contains 4 of this plant.

Rocks (for exhibit with 200 grid squares):
16 Small Rock - Small, which is its most liked rock.

Elevation: Of the 200 squares, 5 nonadjacent squares should be elevated.