The land before time at Wikipedia

Malte279 · **on:** July 03, 2005, 05:05:40 AM

Hi!
Noname, a member of the network54 forum raised a topic there which I find quite interesting. The article the land before time got in the online encyclopedia Wikipedia. You can take a look at the article here: Wikipedia - The land before time
Remarkably there are two obvious mistakes in the article. The sharptooth in the original movie is named a carnosaur. That term however describes a group of meateating dinosaurs whose most famous representative would be Allosaurus. T-Rex (and the original movie's sharptooth was a T-Rex for sure) was not part of this group.
Ducky is said to be a Corythosaurus. This is definitely wrong. Corythosaurus was a species with a kind of semicircular crest on their head. If my memory doesn't fail me their species is the one which is named "hollowhorns" in LBT 8. They are definitely not Ducky's kind.
Ducky's species is still a matter of discussion. She has often been named an Anatosaurus. However, Anatosauruses, unlike Ducky, had no crest at all. She has been named a Parasaurolophus, but in that case her crest would have to a lengthening of the bridge of her nose. Moreover we see young Parasaurolophuses in LBT 4 and they look nothing like Ducky. I suppose she is a Saurolophus, a species resembling Parasaurolophus but with a smaller crest.

Petrie. · **Reply #1 on:** July 04, 2005, 10:01:53 PM

Considering the region 1 dvd has "brontosaurus" written on the back of the cover in the movie description I guess accuracy doesn't matter to a lot of people. :blink: "Brontosaurus" has been incorrect for decades...long before dvd's were even invented.

Malte279 · **Reply #2 on:** July 05, 2005, 01:12:30 AM

I even read a summary according to which Littlefoot was supposed to be a Brachiosaurus!

WeirdRaptor · **Reply #3 on:** July 05, 2005, 07:40:03 PM

Well, Brachio or Bronto, I will always consider Littlefoot and his herd as Brontosaurs, since that is what they originally were, and since its a fictional movie: Who cares?

Malte279 · **Reply #4 on:** July 06, 2005, 02:27:04 AM

The scientists do

For actually there is no species Brontosaurus. It was a name given to a sceleton of an Apatosaurus before it turned out that "Brontosaurus" was no knew species at all but had been discovered and named already.
Otheniel C. Marsh (one of the most famous paleontologists) discovered Apatosaurus in 1877. It was Marsh too who discovered another Apatosaurus sceleton in 1879 and named it Brontosaurus. The error was not discovered until 1903. The name Brontosaurus however was not officially removed from paleontologic records until 1974 (used as a synonym for Apatosaurus).

Mirumoto_Kenjiro · **Reply #5 on:** July 06, 2005, 09:54:01 PM

I heard something about that before. Was the error caused by finding and rebuilding the Apatasuarus skeleton, but with a different skull?

Malte279 · **Reply #6 on:** July 07, 2005, 01:07:25 AM

I think so. I'm not entirely certain and I would have to look it up, but I believe I too heard something about a wrong skull.

trexmaster · **Reply #7 on:** August 10, 2005, 07:24:38 AM

We could always edit the article. You know how Wikipedia works...

Malte279 · **Reply #8 on:** August 11, 2005, 06:14:17 AM

Drew already wrote an article on LBT 2 at Wikipedia and plans to write articles on all the movies there. I do have some summaries written for some of the sequels which I could post there (once I return from Scotland), but I'm not going to do this unless it is alright with you Drew. I do not mean to meddle with what you are planning.

WeirdRaptor · **Reply #9 on:** August 11, 2005, 08:27:23 PM

Fell free to do that, Malte. I won't have my hands free to write any summeries in the near future, and any assistance is welcomed.

Malte279 · **Reply #10 on:** August 30, 2005, 04:38:00 PM

Hi!
I just went to Wikipedia to post summaries of LBT 2 to 6 there just to find that there were links to all these sequels already. However the links will only lead you to a page telling you that there was a possible copyright violation about the text that has been posted there. Apparently text from the official page www.landbeforetime.com had been copied and pasted there.

Malte279 · **Reply #11 on:** October 22, 2005, 06:00:57 PM

The whole copyright violation matter seems to have been dealt with and the pages were free to be filled again.
Today I created land before time webpages at Wikipedia for the sequels 3, 4, and 5. Those pages consist only of a summary and the voice cast of the movies. Inexperienced as I am with Wikipedia I didn't even manage to upload pictures (I hoped to upload the video covers for each of the sequels) to the articles. So if anyone here is more experienced in dealing with Wikipedia it would be great if you could do this.