PAPO Styracosaurus and Euplocephalus

Bought today the two new 2011 Papo dinos, the Styracosaurus and Euplocephalus. I am impressed with the level of detail on these two! Here are the photos:

:) :)

Congratulations my friend.

I watched Styracosaurus, interesting figure,

but money did not reach.

Congratulation!! Phantastic dinosaurs!!!

Congrats Mihnea, they're excellent

Thanks guys!

Wildheart wrote:

Most probably the last 2 figurines for this year

Do you want me to say a few good words to Santa, maybe these 2 aren't the last after all?

I'd be more than happy!

Congrats on your dinosaurs,Mihnea,they are beautiful!
Those two guys were one more reinforcement for me,to collect dinos from the next year on.

Merci! I warmly recommend you start collecting prehistoric animals!

Congratulations Mihnea, they are both awesome additions, especially the Ankylosaurus. You called it a Euplocephalus, is that what it really is or is Ankylosaurus another name for it?

Thanks Harriet!
It is in fact neither of those 2, but for sure, more of an Euplocephalus. Papo labeled it as an Ankylosaurus to have better sell rates.

HKHollinstone wrote:

Congratulations Mihnea, they are both awesome additions, especially the Ankylosaurus. You called it a Euplocephalus, is that what it really is or is Ankylosaurus another name for it?

Ankilosaurids is a family of several species of dinosaurs, those with an armored looking.
To turn it easier these animals are called ankilosaurus, although there's a species with this name that works as a type species.
So, an †Euoplocephalus is a different species of ankilosaurid.
I'm sure Mihnea, our expert of dinos, will explain it better!

Roger wrote:

HKHollinstone wrote:

Congratulations Mihnea, they are both awesome additions, especially the Ankylosaurus. You called it a Euplocephalus, is that what it really is or is Ankylosaurus another name for it?

Ankilosaurids is a family of several species of dinosaurs, those with an armored looking.
To turn it easier these animals are called ankilosaurus, although there's a species with this name that works as a type species.
So, an †Euoplocephalus is a different species of ankilosaurid.
I'm sure Mihnea, our expert of dinos, will explain it better!

Thanks Mihnea an Roger, whatever it is I like him a lot

They are absolutely wonderful, Mihnea
And your pictures are marvellous ! Did you get a new camera ?

Uhh, I hope that next year I will be able to get some more Papo-dinoes, they are SO awesome

Thanks for explaining, Roger
Hmmmm, I think I will NEVER be able to remember the names of various dinos.
I have to make some memo-rules, - what about this :
An anker is hard and has knobbly, these dinoes are Anker-saurs, and heavy, so they are ankilosaurs

Congratulations Mihnea! Nice photos!!

Congratulation Minhea, those are two excellent models

Euoplocepahlus Tutus and Ankylosaurus magniventris are indeed cousins of the same family. But they are different animals ( more different than a lion and a tiger for example )

They didn't lived at the same time, Euoplocephalus realm began 10Mya and ended before the ankylosaurus realm.

Both were 6 meters long ( some scientific think ankylosaurus reached even 9 meters ).

How distinguish them easily ?

Ankylosaurus had a "plate armour" like the SAFARI ltd Carnegie model



Euoplocephalus had a "spiky armour" like the PAPO or the KINTO FAVOURITE model

SUSANNE wrote:

They are absolutely wonderful, Mihnea
And your pictures are marvellous ! Did you get a new camera ?

Uhh, I hope that next year I will be able to get some more Papo-dinoes, they are SO awesome

Thanks for explaining, Roger
Hmmmm, I think I will NEVER be able to remember the names of various dinos.
I have to make some memo-rules, - what about this :
An anker is hard and has knobbly, these dinoes are Anker-saurs, and heavy, so they are ankilosaurs

Yes, I have a new camera! I also spent 15 minutes trying to take these 2 photos.
Susanne, you should always start by learning the basic species for each genus: in our case-ankylosaurus.
Then, try to learn more about the other species. I found it easier to learn some of them by watching movies of documentaries.
Check WWD on youtube, or educational dino-shows on TV.

To make it clear: ankylosaurus was huge, as big as a car and very robust
euplocephalus was his smaller cousin, much lighter in shape and with a totally different spike arrangement

Thanks Cristophe! You are a living encyclopedia!

Wildheart wrote:

Thanks Cristophe! You are a living encyclopedia!

That's true!

Wildheart wrote:

Thanks Cristophe! You are a living encyclopedia!

SUSANNE wrote:

They are absolutely wonderful, Mihnea
And your pictures are marvellous ! Did you get a new camera ?

Uhh, I hope that next year I will be able to get some more Papo-dinoes, they are SO awesome

Thanks for explaining, Roger
Hmmmm, I think I will NEVER be able to remember the names of various dinos.
I have to make some memo-rules, - what about this :
An anker is hard and has knobbly, these dinoes are Anker-saurs, and heavy, so they are ankilosaurs

Susanne, nobody knows all the names of the dinosaurs, not even a Palaenthologist, there are more than 1000 species.
I think the better way to start learning a little about them is starting to know which are dinosaurs and not:
For example, the marine reptiles like mosasaurs and plesiosaurs are not dinosaurs as well as the pterosaurs (flying reptiles).
Then we can start learning these groups:

theropods - (mostly bipedalcarnivores and birds) (T-rex and friends) ;
ankylosaurians: (armored herbivorous quadrupeds) (ankylosaurus and friends);
stegosaurians: (plated herbivorous quadrupeds) (stegosaurus and friends);
ceratopsians: (herbivorous quadrupeds with horns and frills) (triceratops and friends);
ornithopods: (bipedal or quadrupedal herbivores including "duck-bills") (iguanodon and friends);
sauropodomorphs: (mostly large herbivorous quadrupeds with long necks and tails (brachiosaurus, siamese cats and friends)

I've found these little descriptions in Wikipedia and I think they are easy to get even some taxa are still under discussion but we always have Kikipedia and Mihneapedia to help us. :)
Pick an exemplar of any of the groups from your collection and you'll see clearly the differences, nothing better than learn with our collections!

I once found a site with a complete list updated from time to time.

Here it is:
http://dinosaurs.about.com/

Wildheart wrote:

Here it is:
http://dinosaurs.about.com/

Wow,very interesting site Mihnea!Thank you for sharing.

Vivien1998 wrote:

Wildheart wrote:

Here it is:
http://dinosaurs.about.com/

Wow,very interesting site Mihnea!Thank you for sharing.

Another great site is DINODATA

You need to register but inside is a gold mine

Wildheart wrote:

Thanks Cristophe! You are a living encyclopedia!

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