Coal critter

Macdoc · #1 by **Macdoc** » Dec 16, 2019 1:22 pm

Ancient 'coal dragon' is now the oldest parareptile ever found

Carbonodraco lundi, which lived more than 306 million years ago, unseats fossil found by P.E.I. boy

Emily Chung · CBC News · Posted: Dec 16, 2019 4:00 AM ET | Last Updated: an hour ago

https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/carb ... -1.5394231

Svartalf · #2 by **Svartalf** » Dec 16, 2019 1:34 pm

must be pretty early... IIRC my dinosaur period as a child, there were plenty reptilians in the carboniferous era... I always remember the dimetrodon with its big back sail.

Ironclad · #3 by **Ironclad** » Dec 16, 2019 4:29 pm

That isn't a dinosaur, fwiw. And we are a relative, by some gymnastics. It was also a childhood favourite of mine

Svartalf · #4 by **Svartalf** » Dec 16, 2019 4:52 pm

yeah, I know, but then again I've always been a big fan of trilobites... "dinosaurs" was just a wrapword for the larger category of interesting prehistoric animals

newolder · #5 by **newolder** » Dec 16, 2019 5:32 pm

... The animal, which was about 25 centimetres long from nose to tail, lived more than 306 million years ago during the Carboniferous Period...

From the image & description, the title 'coal dragon' does seem a bit grandiose.

"Hello, Phillip's the name and fern filching's the game." - Phillip Fern Filcher, 309 MYA.

Macdoc · #6 by **Macdoc** » Dec 16, 2019 8:09 pm

nah

they are cute

newolder · #7 by **newolder** » Dec 16, 2019 8:22 pm

^ You've supplied a modern, living "Forest Dragon" (something with a frilled back and that lives in a forest) in defence of the moniker of the fossilised "coal dragon" (a smooth-backed beast that lived alongside ferns) with the tag line, "they are cute". What is the disagreement with my post you think you are having here? :dunno:

Macdoc · #8 by **Macdoc** » Dec 16, 2019 8:57 pm

There are Komodo dragons
Bearded dragons
even a dragon millipede.

You've been reading too much Anne McCaffrey :coffee:

newolder · #9 by **newolder** » Dec 16, 2019 9:39 pm

Why do you think the Carboniferous era beast wandered about in coalfields?

If none is too much reading of A. McC. then I'm guilty as charged.

Ironclad · **#10** by **Ironclad** » Dec 16, 2019 10:18 pm

Svartalf wrote:yeah, I know, but then again I've always been a big fan of trilobites... "dinosaurs" was just a wrapword for the larger category of interesting prehistoric animals

Agreed.

laklak · **#11** by **laklak** » Dec 17, 2019 3:26 am

Dinosaurs. Jesus rode them. Hell, wouldn't you if you could get away with it? I fucking would and no mistake.

Macdoc · **#12** by **Macdoc** » Dec 17, 2019 5:20 am

A unique fossil that is "literally a black piece of coal" found in the dump of a 19th-century coal mine

which came from swamps that eventually became coal ...argue with the authors...they started it :coffee:

newolder · **#13** by **newolder** » Dec 17, 2019 9:53 am

Macdoc wrote:
A unique fossil that is "literally a black piece of coal" found in the dump of a 19th-century coal mine

which came from swamps that eventually became coal ...argue with the authors...they started it

I'll argue with the contrarian who responds, thanks. The naming convention here is uniquely stupid since it implies that all fossils found in lumps of coal be named coal X (which, of course, they are not) and we know the formation of coal shows peaks in both Carbonferous and Cenozoic eras that are separated by vast time intervals.

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