User talk:FanCollector

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Size chart
Hi FanCollector, I do have a layered version of the croc scale chart. It's in .psd format, shoot me an email and I'd be happy to send it through as an attachment. Dinoguy2 (talk) 03:35, 7 November 2008 (UTC) Hey FC, the image looks good! If you could either link "Dinoguy2" to my userpage or include my name in the attribution section (Matt martyniuk) that would be great, thanks! Dinoguy2 (talk) 02:06, 10 November 2008 (UTC)

Just Wanted to Say
I just wanted to tell you that you've been doing a spectacular job fixing up Deinosuchus so far.--Mr Fink (talk) 05:43, 12 November 2008 (UTC)
 * If you're having problems finding reports, have you tried speaking with User:Smith609 to find them for you?--Mr Fink (talk) 01:58, 13 November 2008 (UTC)

Image Request
Hi FanCollector, thanks for the request. Sorry to disappoint but I'm quite buisy right now. I'm not particularly knowleagable about crocs, to create a new image will require a lot time and resurch. After Christmas I might have more time. Might I suggest that you ask some of the other artists that are linked too on my page. Cheers Steveoc 86 (talk) 16:39, 29 November 2008 (UTC)

Dental Adjustment
I'll either try to adjust the teeth in photoshop, or I'll redo the image within a week, which ever is more feasible. Roger willco and out.--Mr Fink (talk) 20:29, 29 November 2008 (UTC)

I understand, though, were there any other crocodilian genera that coexisted with (and were possibly cannibalized by) Deinosuchus?--Mr Fink (talk) 14:13, 5 December 2008 (UTC)

On second thought, I've decided against putting in anyone else in the upgraded picture: less clutter and worry that way. So, what do you think so far ? Any more adjustments to make before I begin inking it?--Mr Fink (talk) 22:25, 8 December 2008 (UTC)

Forgive me: the holidays have been brutal in eating up my spare time. I'll have the inks scanned tonight.--Mr Fink (talk) 13:50, 7 January 2009 (UTC)

You mind if we use the lineart for the illustration for a while? I'm in the process of changing computers, and I don't have the opportunity to color it yet. Also, what do you think of the lineart so far? --Mr Fink (talk) 05:45, 8 January 2009 (UTC)

re: Request for IPA assistance
Hi, I've added IPA pronunciation guides to the Deinosuchus article, as you requested. If there's anything else that needs doing, please let me know. :D

BTW, I'm interested in old reptiles as well as dinosaurs, and I was very pleasantly surprised at the impressive quality of the article. Good job, I dare say. :) --Kjoonlee 12:24, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

Deinosuchus
Hello, FanCollector;

Deinosuchus has been pretty clean going so far. Circeus has done very good reviews for various dinosaur articles, so you may want to drop him a line and see if he's interested in diversifying his portfolio of prehistoric archosaurs. J. Spencer (talk) 04:03, 15 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Another editor who would be worth contacting is Casliber, although he may be busy as he's recently gotten on to Arbcom and generally has a half-dozen irons in the fire at any given time. J. Spencer (talk) 03:05, 20 January 2009 (UTC)

Tooth or Consequences
You wouldn't happen to know where you got the reference of that Deinosuchus eating that turtle picture you loaned me for the teeth-reference?--Mr Fink (talk) 00:03, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Done and done, thanks muchly, and I hope Deinosuchus' nomination succeeds.--Mr Fink (talk) 14:13, 1 March 2009 (UTC)

Argentinosaurus
Hello, I'm zh:User:Hoseumou from zh.wikipedia. I have some question about the length and weight of Argentinosaurus. It seems that there are three papers about Argentinosaurus in 90s, such as:

Appenzeller, T. 1994. Argentine dinos vie for heavyweight titles. Science 266, 1805. Paul, G.S. 1994. Is Garden Park home to the world’s largest known land animal? Garden Park Paleontology Society 4, 5. Paul, G.S. 1997. Dinosaur models: the good, the bad, and using them to estimate the mass of dinosaurs. In Wolberg, D.L., Stump, E. and Rosenberg, G.D. (eds), DinoFest International Proceedings, pp But i can't find these papers in internet. Can you search these papers, and find out the length and weight of Argentinosaurus in these papers?

I'll be very thankful if you can help me, thanks. hoseumou 08:40, 28 March 2009 (UTC)

Ornitholestes Photo
I saw your reference to my photo in the talk page for the Dinosaurs Project. I have changed the licence to share-alike. If this is still not suitable, please contact me through Flickr as I would like to help. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.6.162.248 (talk) 21:51, 9 February 2011 (UTC)
 * The new licensing (CC-BY-SA 2.0) is suitable for use on Wikipedia and Commons, so I have uploaded this photo. Since it was higher resolution than the other one we have, I have placed it in the taxobox on Ornitholestes. FanCollector (talk) 01:33, 10 February 2011 (UTC)

WP:DINO's broken link
I readded Paul's website link, since it works fine for me. If it's still not working for you, could it be something with your computer? Crimsonraptor &#124; (Contact me) Dumpster dive if you must 13:26, 15 February 2011 (UTC)

Ornitholestes classification
When it comes to classifications, I agree it's hard to find explicit statements. Many papers, however, do address differences in former classifications and attempt to explain them. I suspect nobody has addressed Paul's because his scheme was not based on any kind of analysis, just his own subjective opinion of overall similarities (i.e. old-fashioned, non-phylogenetic classification). It's also important to weigh the relative merits of these, and frankly, newer papers tend to be seen as more correct than older ones, especially if they benefit from a larger dataset. You mention Holtz et al. 2004 in The Dinosauria 2. This analysis is over 5 years old and was published before many relevent taxa had even been discovered (Guanlong, Kileskus, etc.) While Holtz'a analysis was fine for its time, the discovery of more specimens of basal coelurosaurs have (and will continue to) make our understanding of their relationships more complete. (note that, as any good scientists would, neither Holtz nor Paul currently support those old hypotheses in any of their newer publications. I think for Wikipedia's purposes, if even the same author abandons his own theory in a subsequent paper, there's no reason to treat it equally with newer works, or even mention it outside the context of history).MMartyniuk (talk) 04:52, 22 February 2011 (UTC)

Main page appearance: Deinosuchus
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Deinosuchus is an extinct relative of the alligator that lived 80 to 73 million years ago, during the Late Cretaceous period. The name is derived from the Greek δεινός/deinos ("terrible") and σουχος/soukhos ("crocodile"). Although Deinosuchus was far larger than any modern crocodile or alligator—measuring up to 12 m and weighing up to 8.5 MT—its overall appearance was fairly similar to its smaller relatives. It had large, robust teeth that were built for crushing, and its back was covered with thick semispherical osteoderms. One study indicates that Deinosuchus may have lived for up to 50 years, growing at a similar rate to that of modern crocodilians, but maintaining this growth over a much longer period of time. Deinosuchus fossils have been found in ten U.S. states, as well as northern Mexico. It lived on both sides of the Western Interior Seaway, and was an opportunistic apex predator in the coastal regions of eastern North America. Deinosuchus reached its largest size in its western habitat, but the eastern populations were far more abundant. Deinosuchus was probably capable of killing and eating large dinosaurs. It may have also fed upon sea turtles, fish, and other aquatic and terrestrial prey. (more...) UcuchaBot (talk) 00:02, 28 October 2011 (UTC)

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