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Nice photos again. sunny sunny

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I think the figure is quite nice and regardless of its smallish size, it is at a perfect scale. Thanks for adding those comparisons, they're quite interesting.

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My shelves are looking neater today due to me sorting out all the figures that didn’t really add much to my collection (none of the ones in my list were moved out)
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It’s nice to see them get some breathing room. The first one is a figure I’ve had for a while, but was on the fence about shelving it.

Clown Triggerfish (Balistoides conspicillum) (Safari Ltd)
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Indian and Pacific Oceans
Length: 19 inches
Scale: 1:6

I was thinking about hunting down Safari’s Triggerfishes from Incredible Creatures line, but then I realized I had a great triggerfish here. I always liked this kind of fish because of how weird they are, with their fins on the top and bottom of their body. Triggerfishes are part of the same order as the Mola mola and Pufferfish. Clown Triggerfish are often kept in saltwater aquariums because of their coloration.

And an addition from Japan

Common Fangtooth (Anoplogaster cornuta)(Kaiyodo)
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Length: 6 inches
Scale: 1:6

I usually refrain from buying from Japanese companies and stick to American and European figure companies, but I couldn’t resist my favorite deep-sea fish. I think this will be my only figure from Kaiyodo’s Deep Sea Odyssey. It is famous for having teeth too big to fit in its mouth, and it preys on crustaceans, small fish, and cephalopods.

Here it is with Safari’s Pelican Eel.
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On the other side of the capsule, it lists information about the fish.
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Last week, I went to the Mississippi Aquarium and it was a very good place.
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Alligators
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Filefish
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Queen Triggerfish
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Bottlenose Dolphins
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And lastly some Cownose Rays.
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I was rather unsatisfied with the gift shop, as it didn’t have any good quality figures from Safari (which is the main brand zoos, science centers, and aquariums choose here in the USA). Instead, they had off-brand figures that were dollar store quality, but going there did inspire me to buy a figure.

Cownose Ray (Rhinoptera bonasus) (Safari Ltd)
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Atlantic Ocean
Wingspan: 3 feet
Scale: 1:10

I've you've ever been to an aquarium and went to a touch pool with stingrays, this is the species you've probably seen. In the wild, they are often found near the coast swimming in schools. They get their name from their snout. Safari also made a bigger Incredible Creatures Cownose Ray, but I think the smaller one fits better into my collection.

With Safari's Bluespotted Ribbontail Ray. There are about 6 more rays that I need in my collection.
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Masiakasaurus (Safari Ltd)
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Late Cretaceous Madagascar
Length: 6 feet
Scale: 1:9

Lastly, two dinosaurs. Masiakasaurus was actually related to Carnotaurus and Ceratosaurus. It is known for its odd teeth, which project forward from its mouth. It lived with Majungasaurus, another famous dinosaur from Madagascar.

Another weird thing about this animal is that since it is part of the clade Ceratosauria, it has four fingers. While it may look like it has only three, there is a fourth vestigial digit I highlighted. As the theropods kept evolving, they lost these figures over time.
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Suchomimus (Safari Ltd)
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Early Cretaceous Africa
Length: 31 feet
Scale: 1:40

Suchomimus was a relative of Spinosaurus, but was closer to Baryonyx. It lived in Africa before the massive Spinosaurus. Instead of the massive sail, Suchomimus has a smaller ridge along his back. It would have lived with the giant crocodylomorph, Sarcosuchus.

Here it is with some other 1:40 Megalosauroids. Spinosaurus (Schleich) and Megalosaurus (Collecta)
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03.21.2022

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More great additions, your collection is doing very well. The fingers of the Masiakasaurus appear to be very accurately made. The ogre fish and pelican eel are a lovely pair Very Happy.

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It was a long long time ago when I used to go fishing together with my Suchomimus friend. Laughing I really enjoy your new favorite fish, the picture with the pelican eel is quite funny.

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Congrats on the wonderful new figures! I just got the smaller cownose ray and I love it! I've lived close to the water most of my life and in the summer when swimming in the ocean at low tide you will often see large fevers of cownose ray swimming by, its really neat to see them in the wild.

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Since I spent the majority of the past couple of days cleaning off my shelves, today I'd like to present some figures that aren't on my list but are still in my room somewhere.

But first a quick reptile health update. I see Gizmo the Leopard Gecko and Niko the Crested Gecko often, and they're doing great. Frank the Leopard Gecko is doing great, he just did a shed and his tail was perfectly healthy. I didn't really want to bother him since he was taking a nap in his hide, so no picture of him.

Next is my rescue Ball Python Lucy. She is doing great, but both of my snakes have been fasting for the colder months, which is perfectly normal. When it starts to get hotter and clearer weather, I'll try to give her some food.
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And Nyoka the Kenyan Sand Boa is skinnier than I'd like him to be, but this is a result of him fasting through the winter months.
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Starting off the figures, we have the Papo Dilophosaurus, Tyrannosaurus, and Triceratops. These have been here for a long time, and while they aren't accurate enough to be on the list, they're still good members of my collection.
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The Safari Ltd Field Museum Exclusive Baby Sue rex, and Collecta Baby Apatosaurus. I kept the small rex because it's a souvenir from the Field Museum and the Baby Apatosaurus because of its backstory. I was maybe 5 or 6 years old and I remember checking the mail to find this dinosaur loose in my mailbox. To this day I have no idea how it got there. Although it may be worth stating that this baby Apatosaurus is as old as my collection itself.
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Favorite Co Fighting Pterosaurs and Collecta Daspletosaurus. The Favorite Co Fighting Pterosaurs is a nice little figure from Brett I got a while ago and while I'm still waiting on getting Safari's Daspletosaurus (simply because I can't buy a figure every single day), Collecta's still has a unique position.
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Schleich Triceratops and Carnegie Giganotosaurus. I just couldn't part with this old Giganotosaurus, simply because it's so good.
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Favorite Allosaurus and Safari Edmontosaurus. While Favorite's Allosaurus is great, it doesn't top Safari's and I only need one on my list. And for the Edmontosaurus, a discovery was made showing that Edmontosaurus had a claw on its front hooves, and this means that it's outdated as a figure. Collecta's new 2022 Edmontosaurus fixed this error, but I'm waiting to see what collectors that are more knowledgable than myself *cough* halichoeres *cough* will do regarding this figure.
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Beasts of the Mesozoic Baby Raptor Triplets.
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Beasts of the Mesozoic Centrosaurus (overtaken by PNSO Centrosaurus) & PNSO Sinoceratops Baby
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Next are four figures from left to right. Golden Link Nanuqsaurus, Mattel Mussaurus, Mattel Ornitholestes, Mattel Coelurus. These four are "under review" as I like to call it. All four are exclusive species, but I need to do some more research about their accuracy before I add them.
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While the Spirit Bear is a subspecies, which (currently?) disqualifies it from being on my list, this figure probably jump-started me into buying modern-day animals, along with me finding my old deep-sea figurines.
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03.23.2022

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Emu chicks are litterally like raptor babies. affraid
No way to desqualify that bear, it is beautiful.

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I placed an order for two prehistoric animals from Dejankin’s to cap off this month, but I’m not 100% sure they will arrive by the end of March. So here is the last modern animal of March.

Sperm Whale (Physeter macrocephalus) (Safari Ltd)
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Pliocene-Recent Worldwide
Length: 45 feet
Scale: 1:55

Finally I found a figure of the largest toothed predator that I liked. This figure gets everything right, from the small dorsal fin, to the big boxy head. Collecta made a Pygmy Sperm Whale, which I have to get at some point. The Sperm Whales are known for the infamous battle between it and the giant squid, which has never been witnesses by humans, but known as fact because of the Sperm Whale bodies with scars from the squids tentacles.

With the older Sperm Whale from Safari’s line.
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PNSO’s figure of the extinct Livyatan is bigger than Safari’s Sperm Whale, but the Livyatan is 42 feet compared to the Sperm Whale’s 45 feet. Also the Livyatan has teeth on both of its jaws, but in the Sperm Whale, the bottom teeth fit into sockets in the top jaw.
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With Safari’s Bowhead Whale.
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03.25.2022

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Haydn, what a beautiful piece, I am sure it is one of those that can make us feel very proud of owning it. Very interesting information, it is unbelievable the amount of things we never witnessed and Nature continues reserving loads of misteries.
Fantastic comparisons too, especially with the PNSO grandpa.

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Today my Dejankin's package unexpectedly arrived.
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Shunosaurus (Safari Ltd)
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Late Jurassic China
Length: 31 feet
Scale: 1:50

I was reviewing my list of Sauropods I needed and did an eBay search for this one. I found nothing and immediately placed an order for it at Dejenkins. Shunosaurus is a primitive sauropod. Shunosaurus had a tail club that was used for defense. Shunosaurus was one of the best-known sauropods, with several nearly complete skeletons, so it's great to have a worthy figure of it in my collection. It's annoying when species with great fossil remains are overlooked in favor of species known only from a jawbone (it has happened before). Shunosaurus was closely related to the basal sauropods like Mamenchisaurus and Barapasaurus.

It scales well with Safari's Giraffatitan and Battat's Dacentrurus. Shunosaurus was small by sauropod standards (since some of the animals from the same era reached over 60 feet), but small by sauropod standards is still massive from human standards.
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Belemnite (Collecta)
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Late Triassic-Late Cretaceous
Cone Length: 3 inches
Scale: 1:1

While Collecta's Belemnite may look like a normal squid, there is more than meets the eye. Belemnites are a group of primitive mollusk that survived all the way through the Late Triassic to the Late Cretaceous, dying out with the dinosaurs. While the Orthocones had hard shells on the outside, Belemnites have shells on the inside in the form of an ossified cone. Using the length of this cone to measure the animal puts the largest of these at 10 feet, but most were considerably smaller. The differences are even further in that while squid has 8 normal arms and 2 longer ones used for grabbing, soft preserved Belemnites show that they have 10 arms, all of them the same length. Belemnites would have been the staple prey for marine reptiles and predatory fish during the Mesozoic.

Scales well with Flormoon's Ammonite Pleydellia.
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Here is a March 2022 overview. This month I tried to get as many prehistoric as modern and I succeeded. I'm satisfied with the month.
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Triassic~

Belemnite (Collecta)

Jurassic~

Shunosaurus (Safari Ltd)

Cretaceous~

Centrosaurus (PNSO)
Masiakasaurus (Safari Ltd)
Suchomimus (Safari Ltd)

Modern~

Basking Shark (Collecta)
Common Fangtooth (Kaiyodo)
Cownose Ray (Safari Ltd)
Sperm Whale (Safari Ltd)
West Indian Ocean Coelacanth (Safari Ltd)

03.26.2022

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I couldn't agree more about the nearly complete skeleton comment. It may be fun for a sculptor to rebuilt a creature known from a single bone but tendencially it will look more like the known creature closely related than with the real thing, I guess. Those less popular dinosaurs but completely known surely deserve serious renditions, at least we know the elementar shape will be respected.

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This is going to be an image-heavy post. Today I went to the Dauphin Island Estuarium. April was a rather slow month for my collection.

A statue of Mosasaurus hung to the ceiling.
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A small box turtle resides in the land portion of the tank where multiple river turtles live.
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Softshell Turtle in the same tank.
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This tank also has a good population of fish.
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Water Snake
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A Baby Alligator reminiscent of Safari’s new figure.
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Some invasive species are on display for viewing.

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Horseshoe Crab
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Comb Jellyfish. Apparently, Comb Jellies have been spotted in the wild in the fall near where I live so I’ll have to keep an eye out for them.
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Baby Seahorses
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The closely related pipefish.
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Blue Crab
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Flatfish
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Nurse Shark
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Red Snapper
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The invasive Lionfish is next to a camouflaged scorpionfish on the rock.
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A Clownfish in a tank with coral.
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A Hogfish
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A tiny Bonnethead shark residing with the stingrays in a touch pool.
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The Safari Ltd gift shop. Almost every animal-related place I’ve been to has had at least some Safari figures (the only exceptions being the Jurassic Quest and the Mississippi Aquarium). A testament to how successful this company is, also how they have so many modern animals I need to get.
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Now onto the figures.

Deep-Sea Jellyfish (Benthocodon hyalinus) (Safari Ltd)
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Recent Arctic Ocean
Size: 1 inch
Scale: 2x Life Size

Jellyfish figures are hard to come by in general. When I heard Safari made a model of a Deep Ocean Jellyfish but it was discontinued, I said I was going to look for it. I searched on eBay but to no luck. I was confident I wasn't going to find this figure until I posted it on my wishlist on the ATF and someone directed me to an Amazon listing. Blaine identified it as being based on Benthocodon and since he is an expert on invertebrates, I decided to do a further search and stumbled upon B. hyalinus.

It’s not an exact match in regards to coloration, but it’s as close as I can get.
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Bonnethead (Sphyrna tiburo) (Safari Ltd)
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Recent Atlantic Ocean
Length: 3 feet
Scale: 1:6

The Bonnethead is known for two main things. Its tiny size and the fact that it's the only known omnivorous shark. Seagrass makes up about 62% of its gut content in the wild making it the only shark that is known to eat plants. It also has a partial diet of crustaceans and smaller fish, but the fact that it heavily relies on plants makes it a good choice for a tank with other animals. There was a sign warning us to not touch or bother the shark, as it does have teeth and can bite in defense. While not being the smallest shark, the Bonnethead is the smallest of the 10 species in the genus Sphyrna (which contains the hammerheads).

North American Manatee (Trichechus manatus) (Safari Ltd)
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Pleistocene-Recent North America
Length: 9 feet
Scale: 1:18

Interestingly, Manatees and Alligators do get along and have been recorded coexisting. This species is also called the West Indian Manatee, even though it does not live near India (maybe this was a result of the early discoverers of North America thinking they landed in Asia). They are close relatives of elephants. This was an impulse purchase I don't regret, and this figure will remain as my collection's manatee (eventually being accompanied by Collecta's Dugong).

Ocean Sunfish (Mola mola) (Safari Ltd)
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Recent Worldwide
Height: 10 feet
Scale: 1:35

The Ocean Sunfish is the largest still living bony fish (which that in itself is debatable since the Oarfish is a LOT longer, but not as heavy). Despite this, it's smaller than the largest extinct bony fish and smaller than even some of today's sharks. I was quite happy to see this figure in the gift shop because it came with its stand. Safari released a Sunfish model with a stand built to hold it upright, and then discontinued that model, later releasing just the figure without the stand. Apparently, this gift shop carries several discontinued models. The only downside was that the figure was taped over so that it wouldn't be separated from its base. The Ocean Sunfish is related to pufferfish, triggerfish, and strangest of all Anglerfish. Biology is weird like that.

Near the very end of 2022, I was thinking of doing a recap of my collection. Showing my messy shelves wouldn't do my collection justice, as they are best when they are taken off of their shelf space. My idea was to separate all of my figures into taxonomic groups for group shots (for example, my trilobites would get a group picture and then my sea scorpions would get a group picture) and turn that into a project with daily updates until the end of the year. I'm still thinking of doing that, though one of the problems I've run into is that with a group with some members much larger than others, the biggest member would be made into a "Standard size" figure (whatever that actually means) and the smallest members would be made into a scale closer to life-size. One of my working solutions is that I just list the scales up with the figures' names so you know which comparisons are accurate and which are not. I'm still going to be following through with that idea.



Ocean Sunfish with the largest bony fish of all time, Leedichthys (died out in the Jurassic)
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And compared to some of the largest modern fish (Great White and Basking Shark, because I really need Papo's Whale Shark)
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I died of envy with the comb jelly and the ocellated wedge sole :)

Please notice that while pufferfish, triggerfish and sunfish forms a taxonomic unity (the order Tetraodontiformes), anglerfish are from another order (Lophiiformes) and not even distantly related, if we arrange the bony fish in taxonomic order the whole ingent order of perchlikes, plus some other orders, would be in between the Tetraodontiformes and the Lophiiformes.

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Pardofelis wrote:

Please notice that while pufferfish, triggerfish and sunfish forms a taxonomic unity (the order Tetraodontiformes), anglerfish are from another order (Lophiiformes) and not even distantly related, if we arrange the bony fish in taxonomic order the whole ingent order of perchlikes, plus some other orders, would be in between the Tetraodontiformes and the Lophiiformes.

I do understand that the Pufferfish, triggerfish, and sunfish form the order Tetraodontiformes and that the Anglerfishes form the order Lophiiformes and though they are two separate orders, there has been research providing evidence for a close relationship between the two orders.

LINK HERE

The paper I linked provides a diagram highlighting the restricted gill opening on members of both orders. Specifically being the Common Monkfish (top right), the Short-Rod Anglerfish (top left), Tetraodon sp. (bottom left) and the Ocean Sunfish (bottom right)

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Well I'm not knowlegdeable about fish taxonomy but small gill openings can be just a synapomophy, eels also have threm and are the most primitive of actinopterygians while tetraodontiforms are the last ones.

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The reduced gill opening were the only drawn out diagram that the paper presented, but the author also states that they share rounded and anteriorly placed kidneys, a compact thyroid included in a blood sinus, an abbreviated spinal cord, an asymmetric liver, and lastly a cluster of supramedullary neurons in the rostral part of the spinal cord.

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My last haul for April arrived today, but first I need to update a figure that I already have.

Passalotuethis (Collecta)
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Early Jurassic Europe
Length: 5 inches
Scale: 1:1

An STS Forum member contacted Collecta about this figure's species, and then Blaine posted his Belemnite as Passalotuethis on in the ATF's Recent Acquisitions thread, and that's how I found it. When I got this figure, I didn't really try to identify it, since there are about 2,000 species of Belemnite, and their range as a whole span from the Triassic to the Cretaceous. Which, I would rather have my figures assigned to certain genera instead of just letting them go unidentified.

Today I was greeted by three parcels.
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Xenoceratops (Collecta)
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Late Cretaceous Canada
Length: 18 feet
Scale: 1:40

Quickly straying from my rule of "only buy figures of dinosaurs with good remains", we have Collecta's Xenoceratops. In my defense, Xenoceratops is known from fragments of the skull, and from the neck down most ceratopsians follow the same general build. This figure is about 14 cm long and feels oddly small in my hands. Either way, the figure serves its species well. Xenoceratops is a Chasmosaurine, meaning it's in the same group as Triceratops, Pentaceratops, and Torosaurus. They are known for their massive frills, massive brown horns, and small nasal horns.

The Xenoceratops is equipped with a turkey-like wattle and a war paint frill.
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With some other Chasmosaurines from 1:30-1:35 Vagaceratops (Safari Ltd), Pentaceratops (Schleich), Torosaurus (Toyway)
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Ceratosaurus (Safari Ltd)
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Late Jurassic North America and Africa
Length: 18 feet
Scale: 1:30

Ceratosauria is actually a larger group that contains the Abelisaurs, Masiakasaurus, and Deltadromeus. They are much more primitive than the members of Carnosauria (Giganotosaurus, Spinosaurus, Allosaurus) or Coelurosauria (birds, Tyrannosaurs, and Dromaeosaurs). Ceratosaurus is known from several almost complete skeletons to the point where we know what most of its body looked like. Ceratosaurus had osteoderms, or bones growing on the surface of its skin, that acted as armor.

You can tell if a dinosaur is primitive or not based on the number of fingers on its hand.  Ceratosaurus has four fingers on its hand.
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Ceratosaurus with some other Jurassic dinosaurs from Safari. Camarasaurus (Safari Ltd), Stegosaurus (Safari Ltd)
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Yutyrannus (Safari Ltd)
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Early Cretaceous China
Length: 29 feet
Scale: 1:40

Yutyrannus was a relative of T. rex, yet it was closer to Proceratosaurus. Yutyrannus was also an early member of the superfamily Tyrannosauroidea, which is shown by its long arms, and three fingers. Yutyrannus was one of the largest feathered dinosaurs, comparable in length to Therizinosaurus, but Therizinosaurus may appear bigger due to its long neck. Several juvenile Yutyrannus has been found with adults, suggesting they may live in family groups.


Yutyrannus lived with a lot of small dinosaurs. Sinosauropteryx (PNSO), Caudipteryx (Safari Ltd), and Liaoceratops (PNSO). For reference on these animals compared to Yutyrannus, look at their size compared to the human, and then the human compared to the Yutyrannus.
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Yutyrannus with its relative, T. rex. The reason why Yutyrannus has feathers and T. rex doesn't is because Yutyrannus lived in a cold climate, about 10 Degrees Celsius (50 Degrees Fahrenheit), while Tyrannosaurus rex (as well as a lot of other large tyrannosaurs) enjoyed a climate similar to the Florida Everglades.
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Styracosaurus (Safari Ltd)
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Late Cretaceous Canada
Length: 18 feet
Scale: 1:30

Styracosaurus is a centrosaurine, making it related to Centrosaurus, Einiosaurus, and Pachyrhinosaurus. They are known for smaller frills and bigger nasal horns, but there are exceptions to this rule. I've actually gotten this figure before, but I gave it away and bought it again.

With some 1:30-1:40 contemporaries. Parasaurolophus (Battat), Euoplocephalus (Battat), Gorgosaurus (Papo)
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April wasn't as productive as I hoped it would be, and I normally only do recaps on the last day of the month, however, I do have a figure that is planned to arrive on May 1st, so I'm doing this to avoid back to back posting.
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Ceratosaurus (Safari Ltd)

Cretaceous~

Styracosaurus (Safari Ltd)
Xenoceratops (Collecta)
Yutyrannus (Safari Ltd)

Modern~

Bonnethead (Safari Ltd)
Deep-Sea Jellyfish (Safari Ltd)
North American Manatee (Safari Ltd)
Ocean Sunfish (Safari Ltd)

04.25.2022

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Passalotuethis? How interesting, we should take note of it.
Lots of great figures, I like the turkey guy. Wink

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I like a lot the belemnite!.. and some others! cheers cheers
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