Holy treestars! I think I might have found out...

Littlefoot505 · **on:** October 28, 2017, 06:21:28 PM

...what the LBT treestars are based on.

Okay so a few months ago, I went to a stargazing program at Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument in Colorado, and I poked a bit in the visitors center and saw this! The only thing is that it was REALLY small, so I highly doubt that sauropods could have lived on those the way they do in LBT. The actual size was, if memory serves, a little bigger than how it shows looking at the picture on my iPhone SE.

EDIT: The image didn't show up!

EDIT AGAIN: In case the image STILL doesn't show

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https://ibb.co/dMZOeH

EDIT YET AGAIN: I broke down and switched hosting sites. Whatever you do, DON'T use Image Venue!!!

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HOPEFULLY FINAL EDIT: Postimg no longer works well, so I switched sites again.

DinoTeen10 · **Reply #1 on:** October 28, 2017, 06:27:38 PM

WoW. Something from the series actually exists?

Littlefoot505 · **Reply #2 on:** October 28, 2017, 07:00:58 PM

Quote from: DinoTeen10,Oct 28 2017 on 04:27 PM

WoW. Something from the series actually exists?

Yes. I made the image show up this time.

Ludichris1 · **Reply #3 on:** October 29, 2017, 07:37:49 AM

Still not available XD

Littlefoot505 · **Reply #4 on:** October 29, 2017, 08:51:48 AM

Quote from: Ludichris1,Oct 29 2017 on 05:37 AM

Still not available XD

I know. That's why I put the hyperlink in there. It's so annoying!!!

DarkHououmon · **Reply #5 on:** October 29, 2017, 09:10:07 AM

The image had worked fine for me earlier, but now it's broken and the link doesn't work.

Edit:

Okay I think I found the plant you were trying to link. It does at least look familiar and has the same sort of shape.

DarkHououmon · **Reply #6 on:** October 29, 2017, 09:16:38 AM

Whoops didn't mean to put this in a new post. Please disregard.

Littlefoot505 · **Reply #7 on:** October 29, 2017, 10:02:53 AM

Quote from: DarkHououmon,Oct 29 2017 on 07:10 AM

The image had worked fine for me earlier, but now it's broken and the link doesn't work.

Edit:

Okay I think I found the plant you were trying to link. It does at least look familiar and has the same sort of shape.

That is it! To see mine, just click on the hyperlink in the original post. The image worked for me too at first, then it didn't, so I put the link in there. I'm going to continue trying to fix it.

DinoTeen10 · **Reply #8 on:** October 29, 2017, 10:09:22 AM

This picture is impressing.

Dr. Rex · **Reply #9 on:** October 29, 2017, 08:08:50 PM

Wow. Do we know if the filmmakers did their research, or was this just some crazy coincidence that they were spot-on accurate?

Littlefoot505 · **Reply #10 on:** October 30, 2017, 12:45:44 AM

Quote from: Dr. Rex,Oct 29 2017 on 06:08 PM

Wow. Do we know if the filmmakers did their research, or was this just some crazy coincidence that they were spot-on accurate?

I don't know about that, but again, the Florissantia leaf (the one that looks like the treestars) was so small that I definitely wouldn't imagine it as being a sauropod's main/favorite food source like it is in LBT. But honestly, I also definitely wouldn't imagine that some animator at Universal decided to draw an arbitrary leaf for their new dinosaur movie, and that leaf just so happened to bear a striking resemblance to that of an actual extinct plant. Although another possible inaccuracy is that all the fossils at Florissant Fossil Beds are from after the age of the dinosaurs, and I don't know if the plant in question has ever been found in Cretaceous/Jurassic era fossils.

Dr. Rex · **Reply #11 on:** October 30, 2017, 07:54:24 PM

Quote from: Littlefoot505,Oct 29 2017 on 11:45 PM

Quote from: Dr. Rex,Oct 29 2017 on 06:08 PM
Wow. Do we know if the filmmakers did their research, or was this just some crazy coincidence that they were spot-on accurate?
I don't know about that, but again, the Florissantia leaf (the one that looks like the treestars) was so small that I definitely wouldn't imagine it as being a sauropod's main/favorite food source like it is in LBT. But honestly, I also definitely wouldn't imagine that some animator at Universal decided to draw an arbitrary leaf for their new dinosaur movie, and that leaf just so happened to bear a striking resemblance to that of an actual extinct plant. Although another possible inaccuracy is that all the fossils at Florissant Fossil Beds are from after the age of the dinosaurs, and I don't know if the plant in question has ever been found in Cretaceous/Jurassic era fossils.

Crazy coincidence it is, then.

Littlefoot505 · **Reply #12 on:** November 02, 2017, 08:22:47 PM

Quote from: Dr. Rex,Oct 30 2017 on 05:54 PM

Quote from: Littlefoot505,Oct 29 2017 on 11:45 PM

Quote from: Dr. Rex,Oct 29 2017 on 06:08 PM
Wow. Do we know if the filmmakers did their research, or was this just some crazy coincidence that they were spot-on accurate?
I don't know about that, but again, the Florissantia leaf (the one that looks like the treestars) was so small that I definitely wouldn't imagine it as being a sauropod's main/favorite food source like it is in LBT. But honestly, I also definitely wouldn't imagine that some animator at Universal decided to draw an arbitrary leaf for their new dinosaur movie, and that leaf just so happened to bear a striking resemblance to that of an actual extinct plant. Although another possible inaccuracy is that all the fossils at Florissant Fossil Beds are from after the age of the dinosaurs, and I don't know if the plant in question has ever been found in Cretaceous/Jurassic era fossils.
Crazy coincidence it is, then.

Well, I don't know about that. I hear they did do some pretty extensive research for the film. I think Universal probably did base the treestars on the Florissantia leaf, but they stylized it a tad and made it much bigger so that it WOULD be a sauropod's main/favorite food source.