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Messy History
O.C. MarshNineteenth century dinosaurs from North America are often confusing and jumbled. There are quite a few good reasons for that and the major reason that pretty much always sums up what caused...
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Old Art Like New Art
©Lancelot Speed 1905The most recent illustrations of Anchisaurus resemble the 1905 interpretation of Marsh's line drawings alarmingly. Most dinosaurs have changed extensively in the past 100 years or...
View ArticleColorful Days
Anchisaurus exists on a number of kids websites including the NHM of London and a more detailed description KidsDinos. The notoriously bland drawings of Enchanted Learning can be used as coloring pages...
View ArticleOnline Lies
The Smithsonian website lied to me today. I thought there was a short explanation of our dinosaur on it today and when I went to open it for everyone to preview it, it was not there nor was there any...
View ArticleAntsy Anchisaurus
Anchisaurus is a well read dinosaur. That means that there is a lot of literature out there at varied levels that is available to everyone to read; this is a very fantastic thing I assure you all....
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Toys For All
It has been quite a few weeks since I have been able to share toys on here. We have discussed a number of dinosaurs over the past few weeks, at least, that had no toys. Toys are great for a number of...
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Stokes and Cleveland
Illustrated by ContyWilliam Lee Stokes and James Madsen are famous for the remains they recovered from the Cleveland-Lloyd Quarry in Utah. Thousands of bones were recovered by the pair including a...
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Being Different
Usually when we think of tyrannosaurs we think of Tyrannosaurus rex and Tarbosaurusbataar and other large headed theropods that used their large teeth and bulk to hunt down, overpower, and subdue their...
View ArticleStoked for Sunday
Stokesosaurus is a well-known tyrannosaur, as we all know. Once again, however, a dinosaur with some clout to its name has come up somewhat dry in the website category. There are a few places to get...
View ArticleMotivated Models
Stokesosaurus and other Proceratosauidae are not well represented in the documentary sphere. However, one man, Shaun Stroud, has at least put some effort into making a model of Stokesosaurus.His eye...
View ArticleTaking Away Fossils
There was a time when Stokesosaurus had a fairly large number of fossils attributed to it. There was even a second species considered for a short number of years not too long ago. This has since, along...
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Short Autapomorphies
Stephen L. Brusatte and Roger B.J. Benson Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 GenericThe single autapomorphy of Stokesosaurus is found on the ilium on both specimens. Yes, I did say yesterday that there...
View ArticleVideo Games, No Books
We saw Stokesosaurus in a video game earlier in the week. The dinosaur does not appear in any popular type texts though. No children's books specifically mention the small tyrannosaur. Popularized...
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Near Horned Faces
This entry is backdated to yesterday. Yesterday was a long tiring day and I wasted the evening away in a video game. Sometimes you have to turn off the brain.Image Credit: Wikicommons user...
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Many Horned Faces
The sheer number of ceratopsian skulls can be perplexing when it is noticed how few have postcranial bodies. In terms of overall fossil numbers Anchiceratops is fairly well represented and this gives a...
View ArticleSlap Fight!
The links abound for Anchiceratops at different levels of reading complexity and ability. As usual when we have a lot of links we can set up a gradient of complexity in the links. These range from very...
View ArticleTwo Timer
Apparently Anchiceratops is one of only two dinosaurs (Carcharodontosaurus being the second) to appear in the Dinosaur King cartoon twice and in the same city both times. Anchiceratops like Paris...
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History In Play
Barnum BrownAs a history major during undergrad I thoroughly enjoyed reading personal accounts and the language of the early 20th century and earlier. It always makes my day when I can find original...
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Suppose and Assume
©Nobu TamuraTaking after Paul, who made the estimates of body length and size, we can assume that the specimen he used, NMC 8547 (Canadian Museum of Nature), represents a postcranial skeleton of...
View ArticleThe Quieter Chasmosaur
Anchiceratops is a very popular ceratopsian. It is not well known by the public though. This is a well studied dinosaur and is the subject of many books and book chapters and has appeared in at least...
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