Saurian: a Field Guide to Hell Creek (an Awesome Book!)

[@flightlesslord2688]

Whilst Hell Creek is heavily represented in paleomedia, I love how much attention the shear diversity and oddities of Hell Creek are getting beyond T-rex, Triceratops, and Edmontosaurus.

[@oliverking7227]

You should have a look at the Minecraft mod “prehistoric nature” it has over 800 prehistoric animals from the pre-cambrian all the way to the Jurassic at the moment the Jurassic is still being worked on so yea but they are going until the present day the creatures are as accurate as they can be within the restrictions of Minecraft and they will update animals and there models if new research comes out on them with noticeable differences

[@flightlesslord2688]

its amazing

[@zacharyrupley3264]

I’ve had my copy for five years now. I absolutely adore it. Reread it a couple times a year.

[@alexgeorge501]

This is some amazingly accurate illustrations of some really iconic dinosaurs!

[@danielmalinen6337]

The Saurian Fieldguide art book is often referred to as the grand bible of paleoart, therefore I would like more similar books on different formations because focusing on one formation limits paleoart too much in my opinion, even though the Saurian book is good because it tells what dinosaurs, other animals and plants belonged to the paleobiota of Hell Creek formation. And I hope for more similar books also because for me all formations are equally important and equal and none of them are better or superior compared to others.

[@michaelbuono4007]

Out of all the dinosaur formations there are Hell Creek definitely shows up the most in media

[@dont-hurt-me2519]

Have you ever considered reading the 3-Book Graphic Novel Series: Earth Before Us by Abby Howard? Each book focuses on a different geological era (Dinosaur Empire! - Mesozoic, Ocean Renegades! - Paleozoic & Mammal Takeover! - Cenozoic)

[@ActualDisasterArt]

I love how they gave the edmontosaurus lorikeet coloring

[@Azureblue25]

I have this book myself and it’s easily one of my favorites too, and I really enjoy everything that it shows, for me the only way to make it better is if it had more cool art scenes around the end of the book, and if they showed the beautiful concept art for Alamosaurus, they showed the concept art for Leptoceratops so they totally could’ve at least showed the concept art for Alamosaurus just for fun, and of course even better albeit pretty much impossible & unrealistic to accomplish, is if they actually went back in time to gather all of the info to make it even more accurate than it already is so it could live up to its full potential.

[@PaleoEdits]

A perfect coffee-table book for paleo-heads 👍

[@hcollins9941]

Woo! Thank you for the name drop! Stay great out there!

[@sandeepkunwar9518]

Dudeeee..... I've been wanting these forever!!!

[@Kisseyhersh123]

The only tragedy with this game is that, as far as we know, the developers have abandoned the game in its early state. Which is rather unfortunate, as it has a LOT of potential!

[@HufflepuffJedi93]

I've been wanting to make a Hell Creek formation Park in Jurassic World Evolution 2 🤩

[@jackal27]

Loved this! My kid has an old animal encyclopedia he loves that has little 1 paragraph blurbs describing each species and I’m trying to find something similar for dinosaurs, that we can read in little chunks, but having trouble.

[@awesomeproductions7755]

Hey, does anyone know if this game is even still in development?

[@JPOG7TV]

The game has basically been shelved. One of the leads was caught secretly stealing money from the kickstarter and it was settled with everyone on the project moving onto other work. Don't bother asking them why they gave up or the fact they scammed us, they'll block you on social media to prevent any more deserved scrutiny.

[@Aaaaaaarrrpirate]

Oxbow lakes are a surprisingly pervasive trivia thing. I swear since the time I learned about them I’ve seen them all over the place

[@gattycroc8073]

who else would like to see more books like this that focuses on different formations like Morrison, Kem Kem, and Yixian. each book about the different flora and fauna of each formation.

[@DinoGuy8]

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[@gattycroc8073]

@@DinoGuy8 by the way do you agree that Borealosuchus is the most underrated creature from Hell Creek.

[@DinoGuy8]

Oh it’s up there. Crocodilians. As a whole need to be shown from time to time.

[@Azureblue25]

@@gattycroc8073For sure although I think Borealosuchus would be even cooler than it already is if we found a specimen that was similar in size to Deinosuchus or maybe a little smaller but still huge like Thoracosaurus, after all there needs to be a large semi aquatic predator in Hell Creek that doesn’t have a jaw shaped like a Gharial which is more designed for catching fish as opposed to land animals, so now Hell Creek needs one with the Alligator/Crocodile jaw shape which would be more useful for taking down dinosaurs, and the perfect animal to fit this niche would be a huge Borealosuchus that’s similar in size to Thoracosaurus or even close to the size of Deinosuchus, and I can’t wait until that gets discovered, although I have heard that a fragmentary fossil of a giant Crocodilian was discovered in Hell Creek which might not be a Thoracosaurus so that’s exciting, I also hope that more fossil material for Dakotaraptor gets discovered, as well as a larger Ankylosaurus fossil, a possible Hell Creek Alamosaurus fossil, and maybe even an undiscovered giant Hell Creek Therizinosaurid fossil (fossilized 4 toed footprints were discovered in Southeast Yellowstone National Park which date to the Maastrichtian could indicate that a Therizinosaurid was present in North America at the same time as Hell Creek, near the same location a tooth of a juvenile T. Rex was found too, and Yellowstone is not too far away from Hell Creek, because Yellowstone is in Northwest Wyoming, and one of Hell Creek’s Eastern most points is in Northeast Wyoming, a fossil for a Maastrichtian North American Therizinosaurid could be found any day now, if there was a Therizinosaurid discovered it could indicate that the reason why a Therizinosaurid wasn’t found in Hell Creek itself by now is because they prefer more inland regions, and Hell Creek itself is mostly close to the coast of the Western Interior Seaway, it’s possible that Ankylosaurus & Dakotaraptor may have preferred more inland regions as well which could be why fossils for them are rarely seen in the Hell Creek Formation). In fact Anky’s preference for more inland regions is even mentioned in the Saurian Book, I own a copy of the book myself.

[@gattycroc8073]

@@DinoGuy8 I just love Borealosuchus because it is one of the few inhabitants of the formation that survived into the Cenozoic. not to mention it was basically the top predator in its environment after T rex died out.

[@tyrannotherium7873]

2:49 I was going to say I don’t think there are no mosasaurs in hell creek

[@Ozraptor4]

Fragmentary Hell Creek mosasaurine was described in Vranken & Boyd 2021.

[@bobsmith8405]

There's a recent book that came out that i bought called Dictionary of Dinosaurs an illustrated A to Z of every dinosaur ever discovered, although it only goes up to around 200. The art style is interesting and some of the information is a little outdated but I'd like to see your thoughts on it. Plus the paleoswania is one of the lizards you eat in path of titans!

[@BraydenBarras4174]

2:15 that guy is in Path of titans!

[@MAKATOONY]

No way 🤯

[@danilodesouza6461]

You: lips are the norm amongst tetrapods, even reptiles. Crocodiles are the odd ones out. Testudines: allow us to introduce ourselves

[@DinoGuy8]

We’re talking about oral tissue with the purpose of covering teeth.

[@udaychhetri1963]

Megaraptors maip macrothorax please

[@lee_kebum34]

You should review the book Dinosaurs vs. Beasts

[@joeljuarez2828]

I know that it’s something that you may not want to talk about, but can you do a video or two on the K-Pg extinction event and the asteroid impact that ended the Cretaceous period?

[@samneugebaur2064]

First like!

[@lolboi-j1n]

Pls collage with red raptor rites

[@nicholashenlisia3098]

Hay great video Dino Guy and how are you doing? have you heard of the Montana Dueling Dinosaurs Nanotyrannus skeleton named bloody marry? and I have heard that it might be a full grown Nanotyrannus if you are interested in knowing if you plan to talk about this Nantyrannus t-rex debate in a future video.

[@PteranodonLongicepsGen1]

Could you do ark creature dossiers

[@enzoleonardo2197]

Have you read Raptor Red by Robert Bakker? I'd love to watch a review on that book

[@DinoGuy8]

I have it on my list! A review is definitely planned!

[@NH23-m8f]

While the Saurion game isn’t that good,the book sounds great?

[@thedinohunter212]

Game is good

[@superiorcybergodzilla5670]

Where can we get the book?

[@DinoGuy8]

Link is in the description!

[@JPOG7TV]

Shame this book reminds me of the game. The development of the game has slowed to a crawl because one of the people working on it stole money from the project. Everybody has moved on from it as well. Very disappointing. RJ Palmer himself is extremely hostile when anyone asks him about the project or criticizes the fact he abandoned it. He said that they didn't want to repeat the mistakes of Mesozoica which was another failed kickstarter dino game. Oh the irony.

[@matem1649]

He probably just doesn't want to talk about it which I don't blame him for

[@DinoGuy8]

That is really unfortunate to hear.

[@evodolka]

got this book like 2 years back, really cool, also interesting how only like 10% of it si actually dinosaur focused, most of it is landscape & all other forms of life, it's crazy in depth

[@burntrap123]

Perfect timing, because i Literly got this book from Amazon today.

[@Geniusprimate]

Worst book ever, i prefer jurassic fight club

[@tyrannotherium7873]

Are you going to do a book review of Dr. Darien Naish marine, reptiles book

[@JPOG7TV]

He must. I always wanted to buy those books but wasn't sure if they were worth 40 bucks.

[@TheFoshaMan]

5:50 Nah my Dino Guy, Nanotyrannus is still invalid, the fact that specimen can't be studied by everyone but just a few shows how much these people are so biased and want to gatekeep the so called "Nanotyrannus" specimen because if lot of scientist were able to study it, this debate would've ended long time ago.

[@DinoGuy8]

Oh believe me, I am still very much in the “Juvenile Rex” camp, the new paper certainly didn’t resolve anything.

[@Lizardboy-111]

Was there any stegosaurid in the hell creek formation? Other than ankylosaurus

[@hcollins9941]

@sprangles-ze1ox Well, considering that Ankylosaurus is not a Stegosaurid, then no there are no Stegosaurids at all in Hell Creek. There are a few Ankylosaurs, like Denversaurus & of course Ankylosaurus.

[@GTSE2005]

Stegosaurs went extinct 100 million years ago, long before the end of the cretaceous

[@Azureblue25]

Stegosaurids actually went totally extinct during the Early Cretaceous, with the last Stegosaurid species to ever exist believed to be Wuerhosaurus which lived in China during the Early Cretaceous, so there’s no evidence of them living in the Late Cretaceous at all, but on the plus side, Ankylosaurids & Nodosaurids were still around, and they got to coexist with Ceratopsians, Pachycephalosaurids, Hadrosaurids, Parksosaurids, Ornithomimids, Oviraptorids, Therizinosaurids & Titanosaurid Sauropods, & maybe even Iguanodontids but Hadrosaurids may have replaced them completely, so herbivore diversity was still at an all time high, the only major group that was notably missing were the Stegosaurids, it’s possible that Stegosaurids were the least adaptable out of the majorly unique groups of herbivorous dinosaurs, hence why they didn’t make it to the Late Cretaceous.

[@DryptosaurusDavid]

@@GTSE2005all of them died at the end of the Jurassic and very early Cretaceous as far as I'm aware.

[@tyrannotherium7873]

Well until we find a mummy will know the truth if t.rex had lips or not

[@ExtremeMadnessX]

Fun fact. Until Jurassic Park T. Rex was depicted with lips since the original The Lost World and King Kong. Also, it was only theropod in the movie without lips.

[@tyrannotherium7873]

@@ExtremeMadnessX that’s bizarre