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PLASTOSPLEEN — Fukuivenator paradoxus Skeletal

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Published: 2020-04-15 14:45:30 +0000 UTC; Views: 3896; Favourites: 157; Downloads: 0
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Description What to say about this creature... for one, it ended up looking a lot less like a dromaeosaurid than what was originally published, I feel that's because I didn't use only dromaeosaurids to fill in the gaps. The arms are also notably bigger than the original illustration would imply too.
A notable feature that makes it look less like a dromaeosaurid is that I gave it more generic hips, as the pubis is unknown, and I don't see any reason to give it the characteristic dromaeosaurid pubis as it seems that any dromaeosaurid features are convergent.
Another notable feature is the long neck and weird head, it's just kinda freaky. In general it's pretty gangly, I wonder how it looked and moved in life, probably a little goofy would be my guess.

Reference: Azuma et al., 2016: A bizarre theropod from the Early Cretaceous of Japan highlighting mosaic evolution among coelurosaurians
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Comments: 14

thedinorocker [2022-02-08 11:29:54 +0000 UTC]

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Ta-tea-two-te-to [2021-06-17 09:21:30 +0000 UTC]

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PLASTOSPLEEN In reply to Ta-tea-two-te-to [2021-06-21 02:25:39 +0000 UTC]

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Atlantis536 [2020-04-22 08:16:13 +0000 UTC]

It looks a little like Ornitholestes.

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TheUltraCube6723 [2020-04-20 14:31:20 +0000 UTC]

Skull kinda resembles a herrerasaurid skull. Do we have any fossil material from Fukuivenator to definitely prove it's a coelurosaurian?

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PLASTOSPLEEN In reply to TheUltraCube6723 [2020-04-20 22:18:52 +0000 UTC]

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TheDinoDrawer66 [2020-04-16 00:51:17 +0000 UTC]

Splendid work.

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PLASTOSPLEEN In reply to TheDinoDrawer66 [2020-04-19 14:18:13 +0000 UTC]

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TheDinoDrawer66 In reply to PLASTOSPLEEN [2020-04-19 19:47:21 +0000 UTC]

No problems!

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ByTheGalaxies [2020-04-15 19:43:59 +0000 UTC]

Looks like hererrasaurus. Probably because of the square head shape

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DinoBirdMan [2020-04-15 16:48:01 +0000 UTC]

Really nice skeletal drawing.

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Timoshauru5-VII [2020-04-15 15:00:40 +0000 UTC]

for some reason I'm reminded of herrasaurus when looking at this skeleton.

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Maurissauro In reply to Timoshauru5-VII [2020-04-15 16:57:30 +0000 UTC]

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YellowPanda2001 [2020-04-15 14:48:35 +0000 UTC]

awesome

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