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Allosaurus fragilisby ~TheMorlock

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The Common Allosaur is a famous carnosaur from late Jurassic North America. It is an ambush predator, and preys mainly on ornithopods like Camptosaurus, but will occasionally take sauropods. Carnosaurs do not hunt in organized packs, but will sometimes teem up on large prey in a similar way to Komodo Dragons (Varanus komodoensis).
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Nothing really new here, just another version of our friend Big Al. This is my new "official" Allosaurus fragilis... or at least it is until a new discovery renders it outdated. Occupational hazard. Colouration still more or less based on the lion, but I put some ostrich in there too.

Thanks to

for the suggestions.

I'm still to chicken to give my large theropods lips.

Based on a skeletal restoration by the great Scott Hartman (well, obviously, because it's just a tweaked version of this [link] ).

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~DinoBirdMan Mar 23, 2013 Student Artist

I see you have a inspiration of Yutyrannus's snout crest and even the fully grown proto-feather style!

~Orionide5 Mar 22, 2013

With all the awesome detail here, it seems wrong to mention something I dislike, but somehow the white fluffy cheeks make it look more like a small animal.

~TheMorlock Mar 22, 2013 Student General Artist

There's a bit of that, I'll admit, but if he was bearing down on you, would you care?

~grisador Mar 22, 2013

Wow ! Cool Picture !

~TheMorlock Mar 22, 2013 Student General Artist

thanks.

~DeinonychusEmpire Mar 22, 2013 Hobbyist General Artist

Admittedly, Allosaurus looks pretty badass with feathers; although I'm not sure I'd plume it so extensively considering it's a bit distanced from Coelurosauria. Believe me, I want hard evidence that theropods outside of Coelurosauria were feathered too. Unfortunately, Sciurumimus' dubious position within Megalosauroidea isn't substantial enough for me.

~TheMorlock Mar 22, 2013 Student General Artist

Ah. Well, we'll see.

~Mesozoic0906 Mar 22, 2013

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Sorry... I found this just several minutes ago.

~TheMorlock Mar 22, 2013 Student General Artist

"2-3 mm in diameter"? Those are pretty tiny scales. If they're that small, I don't see how they couldn't just be "goosebumps" like birds have when you remove the feathers. Feathers often rot off when an animal decays.

~Gojira5000 Mar 22, 2013

Oh, a small skin sample on a small portion of the animal's surface, SURELY MORLOCK HAS TO MAKE THE ALLOSAURUS SCALY AND LIZARD-LIKE!

It's a small skin sample, it's still possible for it to have integument elsewhere, like Tyrannosaurus rex probably did. And since Yutyrannus huali is the same size as Allosaurus fragillis, I think it's possible Allosaurus had feathers.

One skin sample =/= The skin of the whole body. Birds have scales on their feet, so obviously if we found fossilized bird skin samples from the feet, we'd go say they were all completely scaly, right? No, we wouldn't. Phylogenetic bracketing is ALWAYS more prevalent in palaeontology. Since most all coelurosaurs and ornithschians had filamentous structures, it's possible, if not likely, all dinosaurs aside from sauropods had filamentous structures in life.

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