Transformers Comic Artist Nick Roche Has Newly Discovered Dinosaur Named After Him

Friday, December 21st, 2018 4:50PM CST

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Here's some odd but delightful news to share and it comes courtesy of BBC News Portsmouth. According to the report, a paleontology student at Portsmouth University has named a new species of Pterosaur after IDW Maximum Dinobot Comic Artist Nick Roche.

(What the Klobiodon Rochei might have looked like by Mark Witton)

The dinosaur's full name is Klobiodon rochei, with the first part of the name meaning "Cage Tooth" and the second referencing Nick.

Nick posted about the naming on Twitter, having shown his gratitude to the student by sending him some signed prints and a design page for IDW Swoop.

Nick Roche wrote:Oh, Can you please send that back, mate? I've been looking for that. Ta.

(Full dislcosure: Mikey's a paleontologist who named a FLIPPING DINOSAUR - Klobiodon Rochei - After me! https://t.co/8xE3CsaOSm)

But yeah, send that back, mate. Cheers https://t.co/CBFw9ritOx

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Credit(s): BBC News Portsmouth, Nick Roche Twitter Account

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Re: Transformers Comic Artist Nick Roche Has Newly Discovered Dinosaur Named After Him (2000353)
Posted by Nemesis Maximo on December 21st, 2018 @ 4:57pm CST

This is awesome. I’d love to know the reasoning, although I’m assuming it has something to do with that magnificent chin.

Re: Transformers Comic Artist Nick Roche Has Newly Discovered Dinosaur Named After Him (2000377)
Posted by D-Maximal_Primal on December 21st, 2018 @ 6:12pm CST

so well deserved. shoulda put "Wreck" or "rule" in that name somehow too

Re: Transformers Comic Artist Nick Roche Has Newly Discovered Dinosaur Named After Him (2000466)
Posted by Sabrewing on December 22nd, 2018 @ 3:15am CST

This is not a dinosaur.

It's a pterosaur. (A rhamphorynchid, to be precise: it has a tail).

I am astounded that this happened in 2018. If it has wings, it is not a dinosaur.

Re: Transformers Comic Artist Nick Roche Has Newly Discovered Dinosaur Named After Him (2000512)
Posted by Cyberstrike on December 22nd, 2018 @ 9:05am CST

Well if the late Micheal Crichton (author of a little book called Jurassic Park maybe some of you heard of it) can get a dinosaur named after him so can an artist who drew robot dinosaurs once.

So Congrats Nick Roche!

Re: Transformers Comic Artist Nick Roche Has Newly Discovered Dinosaur Named After Him (2000524)
Posted by triKlops on December 22nd, 2018 @ 10:00am CST

The student is Mikey from the Transformers focused Moonbase 2 podcast. He has talked about this for the last little bit on the podcast.

https://moonbase2.libsyn.com
https://twitter.com/themoonbase2?lang=en
https://www.facebook.com/Moonbase2/

Re: Transformers Comic Artist Nick Roche Has Newly Discovered Dinosaur Named After Him (2000540)
Posted by Tyrannacon on December 22nd, 2018 @ 11:25am CST

I was going to point out that it was in fact a pterosaur and not a dinosaur. Pterosaurs are archosaur-line animals related to dinosaurs, crocodillians, and obviously birds. Typically, they are incorrectly presumed to be dinosaurs, but they're closer to dinosaurs though than animals like Plesiosaurus, Kronosaurus, Tylosaurus, and Mosasaurus though. Actually, fun fact, Tylosaurus and mosasaurs like it are related to monitor lizards while Plesiosaurus and Kronosaurus fall under Sauropterygia and are defined as Plesiosaurs and Pliosaurs, which are both closely related. Think of pliosaurs as basically short-necked plesiosaurs.

Oh and Dimetrodon, before anybody says it, is a synapsid and therefore closer to mammals than dinosaurs.