Date: 13/06/2014 18:05:05
From: JudgeMental
ID: 547022
Subject: Cretaceous Dinosaurs

http://www.sciencewa.net.au/component/ohanah/cretaceous-dinosaurs?Itemid=

14. Jun 2014. 2:00 pm (Save to cal) Tunnel Theatre, Perth Museum

Meet the Perth Museum’s Palaeontologist Mikael Siversson as he presents a time in our planet’s history when giant dinosaurs walked the Earth.

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Date: 13/06/2014 21:48:42
From: mollwollfumble
ID: 547192
Subject: re: Cretaceous Dinosaurs

I’ve often thought that the film “Jurassic park” ought to have been “Cretaceous park” as most of the important dinosaurs in the film: Tyrannosaurus, Velociraptor, Triceratops, Parasaurolophus, Gallimimus etc. are from the Cretaceous not the Jurassic. Most of these are even from the Maastrichtian period, the very last part of the Cretaceous just before the dinosaurs were all killed off. So even “Maastrichtian park” would have made more sense.

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Date: 13/06/2014 22:09:16
From: Speedy
ID: 547196
Subject: re: Cretaceous Dinosaurs

mollwollfumble said:


I’ve often thought that the film “Jurassic park” ought to have been “Cretaceous park” as most of the important dinosaurs in the film: Tyrannosaurus, Velociraptor, Triceratops, Parasaurolophus, Gallimimus etc. are from the Cretaceous not the Jurassic. Most of these are even from the Maastrichtian period, the very last part of the Cretaceous just before the dinosaurs were all killed off. So even “Maastrichtian park” would have made more sense.

The film was named after the book. The character played by Richard Attenborough would have been the person who named it. I guess this was one of the many things he didn’t get quite right.

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Date: 13/06/2014 22:14:34
From: party_pants
ID: 547197
Subject: re: Cretaceous Dinosaurs

Speedy said:


mollwollfumble said:

I’ve often thought that the film “Jurassic park” ought to have been “Cretaceous park” as most of the important dinosaurs in the film: Tyrannosaurus, Velociraptor, Triceratops, Parasaurolophus, Gallimimus etc. are from the Cretaceous not the Jurassic. Most of these are even from the Maastrichtian period, the very last part of the Cretaceous just before the dinosaurs were all killed off. So even “Maastrichtian park” would have made more sense.

The film was named after the book. The character played by Richard Attenborough would have been the person who named it. I guess this was one of the many things he didn’t get quite right.

You know, the thing is for me I’‘d never been that familiar with the term Jurassic before the film. I knew of it vaguely, but nothing as specific as which species of dinosaur was common in that era. Cretaceous Park would have worked just as well for me.

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