Author: David Belisle

The Donaldosaurus is playing second fiddle today as I’ve had to put everything on hold, having discovered no less than four new dinosaurs. Who knew? Close at hand are a Kimjongadon, a Chungkingosaurus, a Rokosaur and a Kittysaurus.

The Kimjongadon was a predator, a johnny-come-lately Cretaceous crocodile, rather than an unusual theropod. He had a strongly developed neural spine, though I only came across a single distal caudal vertebra, as in a two-and-a-half inch backbone. I was unable to extrapolate the species length as the specimen appears to be a child.

The Chungkingosaurus was the strong and silent, herbivorous stegosaurus. It had two rows of spiked plates on its back that seemed to run forever. You can’t miss them. The stegosaurus ruled with it’s dreaded weapon, the thagomizer.  This arsenal featured four to ten tail end spikes, used as a defensive, end-game option.

The Kittysaurus was a theropod dinosaur hailing from the southwest corner of crowded White Chrysanthemum Formation. It was classified as an early “tyrant lizard.” Overpopulation will do that to dinosaurs, even a Kittysaurus. While this animal, proportionately, had the longest hands among non-avialan theropods, I’m out of my element when discussing dinosaur technology.

The Rokosaur was the boy band of Asian herbivores. A basal (not basil) sauropodomorph with soul. Or at least a large body and sturdy limbs enabling it to move about on all fours. Listed at 1.3 tons, with 8 teeth in front (premaxilla) and 19 in the back (maxilla), the Rokosaur was ready for all terrain.

What does this all mean? As mentioned yesterday, I sense the Putinodon is just a bucket of mud away. Will the Putinodon and Chungkingosaurus combine their Troodontidae-Huayangosauridaen wits to keep Kittysaurus and Rokosaur safe from baby croc-pot Kimjongadon? This Trumpassic world depends on it.

I made the startling discovery today of Phalaris canariensis. Birdseed, that is. This hints that with any luck, I may soon discover the remains of the pesky Putinodon, a relatively small bird-like dinosaur that slithered across from the Central Mongolian Plateau during the Siberhackian Era. The Putinodon has a highly unstable classification, having first been thought to be a lizard. With grasping hands, a large brain and stereoscopic vision, he’s much like today’s Procyon, the common raccoon.

If the Donaldosaurus and Putinodon should meet, it would be a Trumpassic first. Expect an Olympian level of macho. Will there be ruffled, fossilized feathers? When the dust is sifted, perhaps the Donaldosaurus had a sour sauropod that day and doesn’t attack. It doesn’t take a political paleontologist to know the Putinodon has been meddling in Rizes cyperaceae (grass roots) since Pangaea broke up into Fordpintosia and Bananaland. So many questions. I love my job.

I was sipping my morning joe at the excavation site when I noticed there appeared to have been some sort of serious altercation with the Donaldosaurus. I found evidence of a Scarboropteryx and Mikaceratops nearby. It looks like the sniping covered several days.

The Scarboropteryx was a sparrow-sized creature with a tree-dwelling lifestyle and had an unusually elongated middle finger. The Mikaceratops walked on two legs, had short front arms and a beak-like mouth that made a tweeting sound. Not sure what they were doing together, but they were no match when the Donaldosaurus came upon them.