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The Fossil Record
Herbivores
Carnivores
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Steal up to 2 meat chunks or a trophy from carnivores with claimed bodies at their own risk.

What is scavenging?

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A word derived from Latin "fossus", meaning "dug up"


What is a fossil?

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A genus of dinosaur know for its massive size and long necks.

What are sauropods?

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A small turkey sized Dromeosaur made famous by a popular movie series.

What is Velociraptor?

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The alvarezsaurid with the shortest dinosaur name

What is Yi qi?

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Most carnivores are not this, but those that are (as indicated by their profiles) can be divided into the following classes: Type 1, 2, and 3.

What are cannibals?

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A weakness or crack in the earth.

What is a fault?

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A clade of dinosaurs that includes stegosaurus and kentrosaurus.

What are thyreophora?

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The largest known dromeosaur.

What is Utahraptor?

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This cartoonist named the spiked tail of the stegosaurus in one of his comic strips.

Who is Gary Larson?

300

Animals with Hatchlings and Juveniles in their group, may additionally initiate combat with invaders after the required 3-calls+attack moves, within the limitations.


What is the protective parent clause?

300

This is fossilized feces of extinct animals that can give scientists a look on what their normal diet consists of.

What is Coprolite?

300

A dinosaur of which an entire herd was found in a coal mine in Belgium.

What is an Iguanodon?

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A large Cretaceous pholidosaur that superficially resembles modern gharials.

What is a Sarcosuchus?

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The first dinosaur that was named.

What is megalosaurus?

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These auto-claim territory after occupying a territory for ≥5 minutes and must territory contest* other TACs that they see within the POI or forfeit it and leave.

What are terrestrial apex carnivores?

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Hints at an organism's lifestyle or behaviour, rather than remains of the animal itself

What is a trace fossil?

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A large herbivorous theropod from the Nemegt Formation of Mongolia that was initially identified as a turtle-like reptile in the original 1954 description.

What is a Therizinosaurus?

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A marine reptile that got its name from the river Meuse in the Netherlands.

What is Mosasaurus?

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Filamentous integumentary structures on the bodies of pterosaurs.

What are pycnofibers?

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Herbivores may Aggressive call (3-call) once plus do at least one air attack move towards other herbivores that are currently occupying the space, any fights must stay within the immediate vicinity and are usually non-lethal.

What is herbivore resource aggression?

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The natural zigzag movement of sediments along a coast, parallel to the shore.

What is longshore drift?

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A herbivorous dinosaur named after the writer of jurassic park.

What is crichtonsaurus?

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The fossils of this dinosaur were famously destroyed during a bombing raid in ww2.

Spinosaurus.

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Hypertrophied neural spines of the dorsal and sacral vertebrae that act as support structures.

What are the sails of spinosaurus/ouranosaurus/concavenator/itchy made of?