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I just want to say that anyone who picks pterodactyl, ichthyosaurus, or mosasaurus as their favourite dinosaurs is wrong because none of those are dinosaurs.
Having said that, I like triceratops, which isn't on the list for some reason. I guess I'll pick styracosaurus since it's similar.
I haven’t checked in a while but I THOUGHT it was believed triceratops is now just a juvenile other dinosaur
That was news to me. The wiki for Torosaurus is a deep rabbit hole, and since fossilization is rare and we have to go with what little we can find, this will probably be a long debate either way.
With that being said, whatever the name, three horn dino is best dino! And weird that the meme wouldn't have one on there, since it has always been a well known dinosaur in movies and toys.
I know it's been debated back and forth with a lot of the ceratopsian dinosaurs. Torosaurus was the one they think/thought is the adult version of a triceratops. I'm not sure where the consensus stands now though.
Consensus is probably not.
My favorite dinosaur is Plesiosaurus.
What are you gonna do about it? >:)
"raptor"
There's more than one kind of raptor, buddy. Also why doesn't the raptor have feathers? If you're gonna mush all the raptors together into a single species, at least draw the feathers. This is offensive to theropods around the world as it turns us into a homogeneous, featherless caricature.
Also why are pterodactyls even here? They're pterosaurs, not dinosaurs
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I think “ankylosaurus” is misspelled. The only reason I know that is because it has always been my favorite dinosaur.
"Iguanadon" (my favourite) and "Coelophysis" are also mispelled
👍👍 Two thumbs up for iguanodon.
Same, and I was getting concerned when I got halfway down the list and I didn't see it yet. I've always liked the pterodactyl as well, because it's basically the closest we'll get to a wyvern.
No Triceratops? Yeah, I gonna need to speak to a manager on this one...
We only have tricera-bottoms here.
I’ll pick the Stegosaurus… but only because the Triceratops is conspicuously absent from this chart.
(Secret fighter menu?)
3 of those aren’t dinosaurs, but I would go with the mosasaur. Giant sea snake that ruled the oceans.
Spinosaurus and Baryonyx.
Because so many people recognize the former, but we know so very little about that entire family of dinosaurs, and currently it might be one of the easier ways to get paleontologists to argue amongst each other.
For example: the graphic in the post shows Spinosaurus standing on two legs. It was probably mostly quadrapedal, standing on all fours.
It has a huge, paddle like tail, but apparently didnt have the muscles to use it like a croc or gator does.
The entire family has denser bones suggesting an aquatic life, but most of the spinosaurids have those huge back spines which dont seem to serve a known purpose and the spinal bones have room for air sacs which runs counter to the whole aquatic thing.
So to sum up, we have a heavily built, seemingly aquactic crocodile like dinosaur with teeth and jaws built for active hunting. But wouldnt be that fast on land (heavy bones and giant spines) and cant swim like a croc or gator(no muscles for that.) And it doesn't have a long neck like a heron or pleisiosaur.
Best of all, the most complete skeleton of spinosaurus was destroyed in WW2, so we don't even have that to work from.
Stegosaurus!
My people are here!
Love the thagomizers.
They're my second favorite thing that pokes out from a stegosaurus!
Ankilosaurus.
Because nothing says antisocial quite like bony back armor and a big ass hammer.
One of us! One of us!
Stegosaurus has spikes on its back
to keep away predators trying to attack.
Stegosaurus does have the Thagomizer, so named by The Far Side comics, and officially given that name because scientists didnt give it a name before that.
He protecc
He attacc
He got spikes on his bacc
(Plus I bet he talks like Eeyore)
Where arw my raptor feathers. They are objectively the coolest dinosaur!
I've said it before and I'll say it again: parasaurolophus is the choice dino
Where the HELL is my triceratops?
Gonna need this reworked to include pachycephalosaurus.
Diplodocus just for the name. Either pronunciation is amazing (DIPLO-dockus, di-PLOD-ocus) and I love it
Allosaurus!
Has been and always will be stegosaurus. How can you not love those bone plates and spiked tail? Dude's a beast.
That said, ankylosaurus comes in at a close second. It's armor is pretty boss.
Brachiosaurus is my guy
I think you mean 'pick your favourite dinosaur... for today'.
It's Stegosaurus. How could it not be Stegosaurus?
Parasaurolopus because of Land Before Time.
Yes! But for me it's because of the awesome name.
Ayo, where's my boy triceratops at‽
iguanadone since childhood
I’ma go with Allosaurus on account of the epic Mohawk
Ankylosaurs please. Give me an armor plated tank with a built in beat stick that could knock a midsized car several feet with a single swing.
If we are going ancient life in general I will always pick Dunkleosteus. A swimming arrangement of thick bone plates the size of a medium bus with a set of Jaws of Life (Death?) for a mouth. The damn thing could slice through or crush literally anything in the ancient oceans and shallow seas. If it weren't for the Hangenberg event Sharks and Orca would definitely be having some competition.