{"id":1188,"date":"2012-01-10T16:18:28","date_gmt":"2012-01-10T20:18:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/?p=1188"},"modified":"2012-01-10T16:19:26","modified_gmt":"2012-01-10T20:19:26","slug":"we-gonna-light-it-up-like-its-dicynodont","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/2012\/01\/10\/we-gonna-light-it-up-like-its-dicynodont\/","title":{"rendered":"We gonna light it up like its Dicynodont"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I tweeted a picture of this bug-eyed beastie this morning, hoping someone could identify it. <\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1189\" style=\"width: 293px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/possiblyplacerias.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1189\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/possiblyplacerias-283x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"possiblyplacerias\" width=\"283\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1189\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/possiblyplacerias-283x300.jpg 283w, https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/possiblyplacerias.jpg 540w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 283px) 100vw, 283px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1189\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">We shall name him Toby. <\/p><\/div>\n<p>I rescued young Toby from its hellish spinning prison at Giggleberry Farms because it interested me so. Yes, I am the master of the dino-teeth claw game&#8230;and apparently the master of spending 50 cents to win 4 cents of prehistorical-themed plastic. I have a general familiarity with dinosaurs, but this guy was new to me. Turns out, that might be because he&#8217;s not a dinosaur.<\/p>\n<p>Cartographer extraordinaire and apparent dino afficionado <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/flashmapper\">Jim Miller<\/a>, suggested he is a dicynodont, a type of tusked herbivore that nibbled its way across the Earth back in the mid-Permian era some 280 million years ago. It is, for all purposes, part of proton-mammallian line of reptiles as the more camera-friendly dimetrodon.   I look forward to reading more about them. According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/science\/dinosaurs\/8967459\/Fossils-of-dicynodont-discovered-on-every-continent.html\">Telegraph<\/a>, they were very successful and can be found most anywhere on the planet. Good on them.   <\/p>\n<p>Also glad to know that whatever factory in Asia churns out plastic dino toys has been looking to represent therapsids. Good on them. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I tweeted a picture of this bug-eyed beastie this morning, hoping someone could identify it. I rescued young Toby from its hellish spinning prison at Giggleberry Farms because it interested me so. Yes, I am the master of the dino-teeth claw game&#8230;and apparently the master of spending 50 cents to win 4 cents of prehistorical-themed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dumb-thoughts","category-sciencegeek-porn","post-preview"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7V2xo-ja","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1188"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1191,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188\/revisions\/1191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}