one thing that annoys me about jw is that it popularized the idea of ceratopsians with holes in their frills
those were ripped right off patchi the pachyrhinosaurus from walking with dinosaurs 3d
who specifically looks that way because of an *injury*
New Jurassic World dinosaur designs have had some good ones in there but oh man have there been some dire misses and the Sinoceratops is absolutely one of them
It's just,,,, ugly. The body is inexplicably shaped almost exactly like a rhinoceros which isn't even an issue that other JW ceratopsians have as much as this guy. The head is misshapen, the feet are wrong, the tail is huge for some reason. And yeah, The Frill Holes, which become even weirder given that the Sinoceratops seems to have replaced a previous design for Pachyrhinosaurus that didn't even have the frill holes?
Overall I just find it an unpleasant and uninteresting-looking animal. Which like, as far as I'm aware that seems to be a consensus even among JW fans so nobody's really big into this guy.
Ripping into bad JW designs is kinda old hat at this point and it just makes me grumpy so I'm not gonna do any more of them, but the Sinoceratops really does epitomise the laziness at the centre of the worst designs in the series. Unlike something like the Therizinosaurus or Oviraptor, it's clearly just made by people who didn't know what ceratopsians look like and didn't care enough to figure it out. Which is basically inevitable in a big dinosaur movie but it's still disappointing.
As such, I have drawn my own Sinoceratops! Note the smaller frill, bigger head, short tail and non-rhino-looking body and legs and feet!
Also amusingly Jurassic World Evolution later introduced an official Pachyrhinosaurus and they look way nicer!
For quite a long time now, I’ve been in a huge art block, everything I drew had something wrong or just wasn’t right. I would spend hours on a single sketch until I would get so stressed and frustrated I would just stop drawing for days and leave the art to forever sit in my unfinished art folder. I have been working on getting out of this rut so I tried drawing vent art of my dinosona Voltage the Sinoceratops to try helping to get out of this rut.
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Ladies and gentlemen, we are pleased to welcome a new, exotic dinosaur species to Jurassic World. The striking Sinoceratops ('Chinese Horned Face') comes to us from Late Cretaceous China via the Xingezhuang Formation, and is as yet the only ceratopsian to be discovered outside of North America. Its most distinctive features are its immense nasal horn and the beautiful pattern of its crest.
Our dinosaur behaviorists are currently working to integrate our Sinoceratops into the Gyrosphere section of the park, to see how they do amongst our general herbivore population. In the meantime, our oldest specimen, Maria, has found a home amongst her cousins at Triceratops Territory. Be sure to make time for one of our interactive meet-and-greets (available every three hours) for the opportunity to get to know this majestic newcomer.
Was playing Paleocraft and Bucket the acrocanthosaurus and Lady the achillibator decided to kill Wave the sinoceratops, and then I took em on a field trip so they wouldn't kill each other too and instead they decided to fight a sinoceratops and Bucket Lady and Gent the also achillibator all died. only Maze and Labyrinth the Velociraptor (Tigris, so fake not scientifically accurate) survived. Made them all tombstones so now we have Cassie (acrocanthosaurus), Blue and Grey (achillibator) and i still have Maze and Labyrinth! no more herbivores for sure and everyone's gotta stay in the (big) yard until they're all done being teens and chill out a bit
(looking at Maze and Labyrinth, who are the oldest now and won't stop following a psicattosaurus and oviraptor through the fence line-)
I know it’s not possible because the Spinoceratops hybrid is made for colder climates. But the idea of Sammy and Yaz keeping Angel and Rebel similar to farmers using donkeys to protect livestock, wouldn’t leave my mind until I drew something for it.
(little practice sketches)
Yes I gave them a more accurate sail and kind of a paddle tail. lol
While hadrosaurs tend to be perceived as horse or cow-size, there were some intimidatingly huge members of the family. As the largest hadrosaur discovered so far, Shantungosaurus giganteus could reach 15 metres (49 ft) to 16.6 metres (54 ft) long and weigh an estimated 13 metric tons (14 short tons) to 16 metric tons (18 short tons). It lived in Late Cretaceous China, and would have filled a niche typically filled by sauropods in its ecosystem. As these dinosaurs have been found in a mass grave, it’s likely they also traveled in large, formidable herds. Shantungosaurus also had very large nostril holes which were probably covered by flaps of skin that could have inflated to amplify its calls.
Shantungosaurus lived alongside other hadrosaurs like Laiyangosaurus, Tanius, and Tsintaosaurus, all quite large animals but still overshadowed by Shantungosaurus. It would have also lived alongside a diverse array of ceratopsians like Sinoceratops, Ischioceratops, Zhuchengceratops, and Micropachycephalosaurus, as well as the ankylosaur Pinacosaurus and the oviraptorosaur Anomalipes. So far, only one sauropod has been found in this area, Zhuchengtitan, the tallest animal in its ecosystem… beating Shantungosaurus by a neck. The apex predator of this region was the tyrannosaur Zhuchengtyrannus. However, it’s likely would not have been able to take on an adult Shantungosaurus, but could have picked off young or sick individuals that strayed from the herd.