Ceratosauria

Has anyone did any gdi estimates for this creature? Specimen called UMNH 5278, which is technically just an adult version of nasicornis.

Iirc someone said it was 1500 kg, and somewhere else they said it's 2 tons! This thing is huge, and certainly the apex predator of its respective environment (reminds me of a big cat like a jaguar or puma)

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(Been waiting to write this one for a while now!)

Commander: Alrighty, the plan is simple! Team A will take 6 of the Sillo's whilst B takes the other half! Team C, you deal with the Saltrio! Do we have any questions?

(Silence)

Commander: Ok then, Roll out!

We headed into the everglades, as much as we disliked it. My group of primarily local hunters seemed a bit discouraged, So I tried to lighten the mood.

Me: What you doin this for?

Hunter: My family, we could use the money.

Me: Thats swe-

(Spots Sillo group)

Me: FIRE!

We fired blanks at the Sillo's to scare them in the direction of the trap, but then they got in the water and started swimming away.

Hunter: SHIT! How do we catch them now?!

Me: Government supplied us with airboats! Don't worry.

We hoped in the airboat the government had supplied us and managed to her the Sillo's into the trap.

Me: Where is team 2?

Commander: They will be here shortly.

Team B barged in while still firing blanks at the Sillo.

Commander: CLOSE THE GATE!

The gate closed, and we all celebrated.

Me: Wait, where's team C?

Team C fled for their lives from the Saltrio, which accidentally pushed it into the trap. We closed the gate on it Aswell.

An hour went by, we were still waiting on the containment helicopter to arrive... when this happened.

Hunter: Something big's coming towards us!

Commander: What is it!

Hunter: Don't ask, more bracing for impact!

I distinctly remember what that beast looked like, it was some huge Metriacanthosaurid with a bit of basal ceratosaur in it. It turned to face the Saltrio, only to rip the head of it. We were all terrified when all the sudden...

?: Don't move

Me: Where the hell did you come from?

Soul: Names soul, that thing is MY property, and I want my Malusaurus, so please don't kill it.

I had enough at that point and just decided to book it out of there.

Soul: (Snaps fingers) Kill that guy.

That made me run even FASTER, and when I saw humanoid EYES catching up to me, I clocked out at cheetah speeds. I reached the park... only for Jacob to be there.

Jacob: What happened!

Me: Do you really want to hear?

Jacob: (Sigh) Of course.

(End)

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(This story follows CIA agent RF and his assigned mission infiltrate a Heart & Soul industry's building in a disclosed location in Texas.)

Me: So, in and out, right?

MC: Yes... do you remember your supplies and the plan?

Me: Yes, you guys at mission control really need to learn to stop asking me that because you know the answer.

MC: Fine, I guess.

Me: The fence surrounding the facility is pretty tall, and electric at that. Can you shut it off by any means?

MC: We will send in a drone to deactivate the fence, you have to go fast though, it will only be inactive for 20 seconds, now GO!

I climbed the fence like my life depended on it (cause it kind of did at the moment) and was able to get over the fence 5 seconds before the electricity reactivated.

Me: Simple.

MC: Alright, now proceed to the power station, if we cause a blackout, you may be able to sneak into the main building easier.

Me: Can you send your drone in to move ceiling tile and knock the two guys in their out?

MC: Can do!

The drone moved open a ceiling tile in the power station, then proceeded to knock out the workers by firing a tranquilizer dart at each of them. I then proceeded to climb on in.

Me: I'm in, what now?

MC: Simple, flip the power off or do something to cause a blackout.

I then realized there was a spare suit and AK47 right there.

Me: No need... they have a lost & found.

MC: You wouldn't...

Me: Oh yes I would!

MC: (Sigh) just shove those guys into a locker or something before you leave, ok?

Me: Okey dokey.

I shoved the guys in a locker and went on my merry little way before stopping to observe the main building. It was a large brick building, with a few vents scattered here and there. There were noticeably a few guards armed with AK'S and a couple of guard dogs.

Me: Alright, in I go!

So, I walked right up to the main entrance, showed the guards my ID, and they didn't even bate an eye! Those idiots opened the entry door for me without even questioning! While walking around, I heard a conversation that piqued my interest.

Worker 1: Heard about the Sillo incident yet?

Worker 2: Yeah, didn't we try to steal a couple Sillo's when a Malu broke out?

W1: Yeah, I think P.P already is sending out Recontainment forces to deal with the Sillo's and a loose Saltrio Aswell. They're already going to set off for the Recapture tomorrow night.

Me: (Hey MC, I think I know who smuggled the Sillo's, but I'll tell you when I get back to base.)

I was able to use my ID to slip on through the door's and into the room the of the man I was assigned to kill, the manager of this place.

Manager: Sup.

Me: Uh...

Stomach: Names stomach, but you can call me YOUR WORST NIGHTMARE!

This Stomach guy proceeded to pull out a whole ass elephant gun, so I in return pointed my AK at him. It didn't take long for a shoot-out to break out between us two, it actually got so bad a whole WALL fell off during the whole duel. That's when the Spec Ops FINNALY arrived when they heard the gunshots.

Me: HAH! Took Ya long enough!

Spec ops guy: Shut up and get in the Helicopter!

I did what he said and got in the helicopter, where I asked stomach a question as I flew away.

Me: Where is Heart, Lung and Soul?

Stomach: HAH! You'll likely never find them. They are in a place so desolate and remote that you'll never find them. NOW EAT DIMORPHODONTS!

All the sudden, these Pteranodon sized Dimorphodonts started attacking the helicopter, when all the sudden a Ducc attacked the Dimorphodonts, deterring them from the helicopter.

Me: God bless you ya glorious waterfowl. Also, I nabbed this suitcase on the way out with some private documents on the way out.

Spec ops guy: And for a second there I thought you came back with nothing! Solid job!

And we laughed all the way back to base...

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GIGANTORAPTOR

Description: Gigantoraptor is a large oviraptorid from the ‬Iren Dabasu formation in Mongolia. It weighed 2 tons and was 26ft in length. Here's the size for yall:

Extra info: Gigantoraptor, like all oviraptorids, is an omnivore that while comfortable eating plant matter is still known to eat small animals and scavenge corpses. They are known to create small burrows in which they nest and use to avoid predators, though these burrows are usually quite small. They are quite aggressive, but usually just have geese mentality and try to scare threats off instead off attacking them, which can create for quite the scare on van tours of the Mongolian exhibit when a Gigantoraptor pulls a mock charge on the tour van while unleashing an even more geese-like screeching.

‬BEIBEILONG

Description: Beibeilong is a large oviraptorid from the Gaogou Formation from China. It reached 25ft long and weighed 1.2 tons. Here's ya size comparison:

Extra info: Beibeilong is basically everything Gigantoraptor is with a few small differences. Instead of being aggressive, the Beibeilong is quite a shy and skittish creature that usually runs from danger instead of confronting it. Instead of living a solitary lifestyle, Beibeilong lives in large family groups with a meerkat like society led by a dominate pair of mates. The group's members all stand lookout for predators and threats to young. When threats to young are spotted, the adults will rundown the threat and usually kill it. When a predator is spotted, the adults will run back into the complex burrow in which the family resides. The burrowing instinct of Beibeilong is much strong than the one of Gigantoraptor and, with the help of the family, can dig colossal complex burrows in which 4 types of rooms reside, one where young are kept, another where food is stored, another where a majority of the family sleeps, and finally one were the head mating pair sleep. This burrowing caused issues once when 3 Beibeilong burrowed directly under the enclosure walls. Once out, they saw human beings they were unfamiliar with outside a van for the first time and panicked, with one Beibeilong kicking a man straight in the stomach (The man was rushed to the hospital and thankfully survived). The Beibeilong escaped through the park's main entrance, they were successfully able to run a good distance from the park before making the horrible mistake of running into an open parking lot, perfect for Recontainment forces to tranquilize the creatures from a helicopter. After this incident, the walls around the Mongolia enclosure were made much deeper to keep the Beibeilong from burrowing underneath ever again.

UPDATE ON SILLO AND SALTRIO INCIDENT

Recontainment forces have successfully Rallied local professional hunter's and trapper's to assist in the Recontainment of the Sillo's and the Saltrio, wish them good luck.

(Teaser: The Sillo's are the bait)

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Description: Bruhathkayosaurus is an absolutely colossal titanosaurian sauropod from the Kallemedu formation in India. It was the largest creature to ever walk the earth, weighing 5 tons more than the 85-ton Argentinosaurus. Don't believe us? Look at the size comparison.

Extra info: Bruhathkayosaurus don't live in regular herds like a lot of sauropods, instead they live in family groups lead by the oldest female and her sisters while being defended by the adult bulls of the group. During the mating season, family groups will gather around an open field, where males will fight for mating permission from females. The fighting is basically what you'd expect, biting of the neck and head, wrestling and kicking, blows from the tail and stuff like that. When threatened, the females will circle around the young while the males charge at the threat to scare it away, and if that doesn't work, to kill it by kicking and trampling and stomping it to death. We learned this the hard way when a power-outage caused the power in the South American section to go out, resulting a gate malfunction in the Mapusaurus enclosure, giving the pack of 14 a good 7 minutes to break out and run to the Bruhathkayosaurus enclosure, which they broke into via a wall still weak after being damaged during the mating season. They attacked a family group of Bruhathkayosaurus, with 4 pack members distracting the bulls while the others targeted the young. However, due to the defense circle, all it resulted in was an adult female getting killed by the Mapusaurus. However, it was not just the Bruhathkayosaurus that were going to die that night, as while one of the attacking Mapusaurus wasn't looking, one of the males charged from the side, reared up, and proceeded to crush the Mapusaurus to death. The Mapusaurus then fled the enclosure and tried to escape through the park's entry gate, but by then recontainment forces had been expecting them and proceeded to tranquilize and relocate the now pack of 13. Meanwhile, the Bruhathkayosaurus preformed what is known as a "sauropod vigil", where members of a sauropod herd or family stand by the corpse of their loved one while not eating or drinking for the whole day. Alexis thatcher, head of sauropod care and Eli fowler, head of carnivorous therapod care both agree that the incident was a horrible tragedy that, with a good increase in security, should hopefully never happen again.

UPDATE ON SILLOSUCHUS AND SALTRIOVENATOR INCIDENT:

As we speak, Recontainment forces are rallying local professional hunters and trappers to assist in the recontainment of the escaped Sillosuchus. We have started a fundraiser to help raise money for this cause, your donations are much appreciated. Money also goes into the recontainment of the Saltriovenator, which we have now been made aware has committed its first attack against human's. About a day ago, the Saltriovenator attacked a small family by literally charging through the family's cabin wall. The family only got injured by the wood that flew in their direction when the Saltriovenator broke in. The family's mother managed to deter the Saltriovenator by firing a shotgun at the Saltriovenator and, although she missed, scaring it off. The father of the family has pointed out that the Saltriovenator appeared starved, probably only attacking the family out of starvation.

We will keep you updated on the incident.

(Goddamn this took a long time to write)

Pls explain

Here is a hypothetical basal abelisaur skull, got kind of bored so I made it

Answers down there and help me find out

Round of 16

1. Spectrovenator vs Arcovenator

2. Genyodectes vs Chenanisaurus

3. Xenotarsosaurus vs Masiakasaurus

4. Majungasaurus vs Ornithomimoides

5. Llukalkan vs Titanovenator

6. Carnotaurus vs Rajasaurus

7. Ekrixinatosaurus vs Indosaurus

8. Ostafrikasaurus vs revival round winner

Revival round

Revival 1

Saltriovenator

Quilmesaurus

Thanos

Dahalokely

Jubbulpuria

Revival 2

Viavenator

Dryptosauroides

Orthogoniosaurus

Fosterovenator

Berthasaura

Revival 3

Indosuchus

Berthasaura

Niebla

Berberosaurus

Rugops

Ceratosaurus

There's gonna be 5 per poll, the one that gets most votes will face the winners of the other polls and then one of them gets revived and will face Ostafrikasaurus.

So I'll just go over the matches that will take place in this round.

1. Spectrovenator vs Saltriovenator

2. Arcovenator vs Quilmesaurus

3. Thanos vs Genyodectes

4. Daholokely vs Chenanisaurus

5. Jubbulpuria vs Xenotarsosaurus

6. Viavenator vs Masiakasaurus

7. Majungasaurus vs Dryptosauroides

8. Ornithomimoides vs Orthogoniosaurus

9. Llukalkan vs Fosterovenator

10. Berthasaura vs Titanovenator

11. Indosuchus vs Carnotaurus

12. Niebla vs Rajasaurus

13. Ekrixinatosaurus vs Berberosaurus

14. Indosaurus vs Rugops

15. Ceratosaurus vs Ostafrikasaurus

As you can see only 15 Ceratosaurians will remains, so 1 of them will get revived in the revival round. There will be 3 polls with 5 Fallen Ceratosaurians, the ones with most votes will then be in poll with eachother and the one with the most votes in that poll will return (I know, much epik)

I didn't forget about this lolz.

So upcoming polls (Who do you like more ones)

1. Elaphrosaurus vs Spectrovenator

2. Saltriovenator vs Tarascosaurus

3. Arcovenator vs Ozraptor

4. Lametasaurus vs Quilmesaurus

5. Thanos vs Laevisuchus

6. Genyodectes vs Ilokolesia

7. Daholokely vs Vespersaurus

8. Chenanisaurus vs Dandakosaurus

9. Aucasaurus vs Xenotarsosaurus

10. Noasaurus vs Jubbulpuria

11. Viavenatir vs Coeluroides

12. Masiakasaurus vs Abelisaurus

13. Majungasaurus vs Huinculsaurus

14. Dryptosauroides vs Spinostropheus

15. Ornithomimoides vs Bayosaurus

16. Eoabelisaurus vs Orthogoniosaurus

17. Llukalkan vs Austrocheirus

18. Fosterovenator vs Genusaurus

19. Vitakridrinda vs Chuandongcoelurus

20. Pycnemosaurus vs Titanovenator

21. Carnotaurus vs Kryptops

22. Rahiolisaurus vs Indosuchus

23. Compsosuchus vs Niebla

24. Rajasaurus vs Limusaurus

25. Velocisaurus vs Ekrixinatosaurus

26. Berberosaurus vs Afromimus

27. Indosaurus vs Ligabueino

28. Betasuchus vs Rugops

29. Tralkasaurus vs Ceratosaurus

30. Ostafrikasaurus vs Kurupi

After round 2 15 dinosaurs will remain so one will get a second chance.

Starting tomorrow.