Episode 409: An enormous new spinosaur and a tiny thyreophoran. A brand new dinosaur that appears like a tiny Carnotaurus lined in armor, one other dinosaur that is likely to be the biggest theropod from Europe, and we title a carnivore and herbivore for each letter of the alphabet
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Information:
- A brand new thyreophoran that appears like a miniature, armored, Carnotaurus was present in Argentina supply
- A brand new, very massive spinosaur was found on the Isle of Wight in England supply
- Spinosaurids changed enamel in a short time, which might be why we’ve discovered so many supply
- Oxford College Museum of Pure Historical past is re-running a lecture J.R.R. Tolkien gave in 1938 about dragonlore and dinosaurs supply
- The Discipline Museum in Chicago lately acquired a brand new hadrosaur dinosaur fossil supply
- One other dinosaur, Zephyr, goes to public sale subsequent month supply
- A pupil at Southern Methodist College in Texas makes dinosaur origami supply
- There’s a brand new trailer for Marvel’s Moon Lady and Satan Dinosaur supply
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The dinosaur of the day: Microvenator
- Oviraptorosaurian theropod that lived within the Early Cretaceous in what’s now Montana, U.S. (Cloverly Formation)
- Regarded sort of like Oviraptor, walked on two legs, had a protracted tail, lengthy arms with massive claws
- Estimated to be 4.3 ft (1.3 m) lengthy
- Holotype (AMNH 3041) is most probably a juvenile, primarily based on some unfused bones
- Grownup in all probability grew bigger
- Fossils present in 1933 by Barnum Brown as a part of a discipline social gathering from the American Museum of Pure Historical past, who thought Deinonychus enamel additionally was a part of the holotype
- Brown informally known as it Megadontosaurus, which implies “big-toothed lizard”
- Brown drew illustrations of the dinosaur however by no means revealed about it
- Fossils discovered embrace a partial cranium, proper decrease jaw, 23 vertebrae (together with components of the tail), ribs, partial left arm, partial pelvis, partial hindlimbs, left coracoid (a part of the shoulder)
- Named by John Ostrom in 1970
- Sort species is Microvenator celer
- Full title means “swift small hunter”
- Named for its lengthy legs
- Ostrom additionally tentatively referred a tooth to Microvenator, however that tooth might be from Deinonychus
- In 1998, Mackovicky and Sues revealed a monograph with Brown’s illustrations and confirmed Microvenator was an oviraptorosaurian (and that the tooth was not a part of it)
- Distinctive options embrace a few of the vertebrae close to and on the tail have been wider than excessive, a crest on the femur, and a deep, oval melancholy on a part of the pubis
- In all probability didn’t have enamel
- Different dinosaurs that lived across the similar time and place embrace Rugocaudia (basal titanosauriform), Sauroposeidon (sauropod), Aquilops (ceratopsian), Zephyrosaurus (ornithischian), Acrocanthosaurus (carcharodontosaurid)
Enjoyable Truth:
We are able to title a carnivorous and herbivorous dinosaur for each letter of the alphabet.
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