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Length
editWhy is this article so short? And why isn't there a stub template on it? Troodon58 21:19 2 September 2010 (UTC)
Time
editIt did'nt live that long, it lived toi the end of the createceous with all other dinosaurs about 65 mya. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.48.33.49 (talk) 00:10, 3 May 2011 (UTC)
- Nope. Also, all dinosaurs did not live to the end of the Cretaceous. There is more time between the genera Apatosaurus and Tyrannosaurus than between Tyrannosaurus and us. J. Spencer (talk) 01:23, 3 May 2011 (UTC)
Seriously? I already know apatosaurus an t-rex are seperated by time periods. but on this show called last Day of the Dinosaurs on discovery channel, it showed Saurornithoides living at the end of the createceous.
- Do not rely on documentaries for dino info. They like to embellish things and often get stuff wrong. Albertonykus (talk) 02:26, 3 May 2011 (UTC)
- For the "more time between X and Y than X and us", it works out like this:
- Apatosaurus, as a Morrison dinosaur, is last known from around 145 million years ago. Tyrannosaurus, from several uppermost Cretaceous formations, dates to between about 68 and 65 million years ago. This puts roughly 75 to 80 million years between them. We, of course, are at 0 million years ago, 65 million years later than Tyrannosaurus. Therefore, there are roughly 10 to 15 million years more between the end-Jurassic Apatosaurus and end-Cretaceous Tyrannosaurus than there are between Tyrannosaurus and today. J. Spencer (talk) 03:34, 4 May 2011 (UTC)
Are you positive that it didn't live to the end of the Createceous?
- Here's a listing of every known specimen with the formation age they were found in. See for yourself: there are 3 known specimens, all from the late Campanian age, at least 5 million years before the end of the Cretaceous. MMartyniuk (talk) 00:34, 13 May 2011 (UTC)Well then, i guess discovery did that just because they couldent call it Troodon and put it with Parasaurolophus because Parasaurolophus didn't live to the end.
- The thing to remember about those shows is they're not made by scientists. Often the CGI segments are made well before any science consultants are brought in, and then it's too late to change them. Discovery is an entertainment company, not a science company. They probably had no idea that all Late Cretaceous dinosaurs did not live and die at the same time. MMartyniuk (talk) 13:25, 13 May 2011 (UTC)