Well yesterday’s post was inevitably rather popular and I did promise a little more, so here it is. Above is the mounted cast of the holotype and below the life reconstruction sculpture of the head that was produced.
A little more Raptorex
Published 01/09/2011 Dinosaurs 6 CommentsTags: Dinosaurs, theropod, tyrannosaurus
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Is the headgear based on actual findings, or artistic license (within the confines of what we know about feathers on theropods)?
Artistic license.
I never liked that design. Looks like he has a wig on his head.
The skeleton looks very nice though.
That hairdo (featherdo?) looks to me like a mullet.
I never noticed before but those legs’ bones proportions scream “young tyrannosaurid”, but we’ll see. Great pictures btw!
Slightly off topic, but this has been bothering me for a while. I have no idea how to pronounce the latinized species names when they end with a “i” or 2. For example, Raptorex kriegsteini, do I pronounce the “i” at the end of kriegsteini?
Do anyone know?