#euoplocephalus — Public Fediverse posts

I was challenged late 2021 to use a different wheel base for a new build. It was short and wide. I took one look at it and thought “perfect for Anklyosaurus”. Here is the end result
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#Euoplocephalus #Gastonia ( designed as a gift to
@paleojim.bsky.social
)
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My 25 years of palaeoart chronology...

Dinosaurs were a funny bunch. Here's a parade from DINOSAUR BEHAVIOUR (2023), by Prof Michael Benton (published by Princeton University Press).

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Euoplocephalus (AAA/Early Learning Centre)

This small outdated ankylosaur model was sold by the Early Learning Centre in the UK in the 1990s. It doesn’t have any brand markings, but I’m reasonably confident it’s an AAA model based on the style and knowing the strong relationship the Early Learning Centre had with AAA. If anyone knows otherwise, please let me know. We’ve already reviewed an AAA Euoplocephalus on the DinoToyBlog, but they are very different. So, I’ve added “Early Learning Centre” to the title of this review to differentiate them – I’m not sure which came first.

The figure is marked “EUOPLOCEPHALUS MADE IN CHINA CE”, so we can be confident of the generic identity. However, this is almost meaningless since the anatomy of this toy is a generic ankylosaur, in a style depicted for most of the 20th century. It has a roof of neat rows of flatish rectangular osteoderms along the head, back, and tail. The armour over the head is armadillo-like.

This armour plating above is flanked by short conical spines along each side. These rows are positioned quite high, so the warty skin on the sides of the ribcage and belly is exposed. The bumpy wart-like skin is typical for AAA models and is one of the features that makes me confident about the brand. The tail ends in a generic oval club, which it is swiping to the side.

The hands and feet all have four-clawed digits. So, that’s one toe too many in each foot, and one finger too few in the hands, although not every digit in the hand of Euoplocephalus had a claw.

This is a relatively small model, 11.5 cm long, but closer to 12 cm as measured along the spine. It has interesting metallic blue stripes on the armour, and the spines and toes are painted white. Otherwise it is painted light brown on what appears to be a pale creamy blue base plastic.

The history of AAA dinosaurs is poorly known. If this is indeed an AAA model it shows there’s a wide variety of figures by this brand that may not be marked as such. AAA models tend to be a notch or two above no-brand Chinasaurs, but still lack refinement and attention to detail, so they usually fail to impress. And that ends this short and sweet overview of a pleasant enough but otherwise unremarkable traditional depiction of an ankylosaur.

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#Euoplocephalus

Euoplocephalus (Haolonggood)
Written by Gwangi

4.8 (4 votes)

In 1971, Water Coombs published a paper titled The Ankylosauridae. In it, he argued that there was only one species of ankylosaurid living during the Campanian age of Late Cretaceous North America and synonymized Anodontosaurus, Dyoplosaurus, and Scolosaurus with Euoplocephalus. More recent papers would overturn Coombs’s paper, finding each of […]

Read more... https://dinotoyblog.com/euoplocephalus-haolonggood/

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This weeks #Lego #FossilFriday is #Euoplocephalus

Euoplocephalus was found in 1897 in Alberta.

In 1902 it was named #Stereocephalus. But that was found already be the name given to an insect (like most cool names).

In 1910 it was changed to Euoplocephalus.

In 1971 Walter Coombs concluded that all anklyosaurid remains from the #Campanian of North America belonged to Euoplocephalus.

Recently paleontologists have reverted several back to their own species.

This weeks #Lego #Dinosaur of the week will be #Euoplocephalus

Each build come with a fact sheet, and parts list.
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Want to build this little critter? Well here's the instructions - https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1F13VWLrS5-F22zWJ7AGck536CdKYBV2Z?usp=sharing

A peaceful Euoplocephalus sleeping in the forest. digital painting done in Clip Studio Paint.

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