Episode 355 is all about Arrhinoceratops, a ceratopsian which appears so much like a miniature Torosaurus (or Triceratops).
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Information:
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- One other enjoyable listing of dinosaur websites features a sculpture backyard in San Diego, CA supply
- Moon Woman and Satan Dinosaur is coming again as an animated collection on Disney in February 2022 supply
The dinosaur of the day: Arrhinoceratops
- Chasmosaurine ceratopsian that lived within the Late Cretaceous in what’s now Alberta, Canada (Horseshoe Canyon Formation)
- Most likely seemed so much like Triceratops, however a unique frill, and smaller
- Primarily based on the cranium, estimated to be about 15 ft (4.5 m) lengthy and weigh 2,900 lb (1.3 tonnes)
- Had a broad, sq. neck frill with two fenestrae (openings)
- Had deep grooves alongside the neck frill
- Sides of the frill had about 9 ossifications
- Left squamosal on the frill aspect has a gap from a pathology, perhaps from a wound
- Some scalloping across the frill
- Had lengthy forehead horns and a brief, blunt nostril horn
- Horns flip outward
- Snout was quick and excessive
- Had dental batteries
- Most likely ate ferns, cycads, and conifers
- Described in 1925 by William Parks
- Holotype is {a partially} crushed, considerably distorted cranium with out the decrease jaws, discovered alongside the Pink Deer River on Neill’s Ranch web site throughout a 1923 expedition from the College of Toronto
- Kind species is Arrhinoceratops brachyops
- Genus identify means “no nostril horn face”
- Species identify means “quick confronted”
- Solely the cranium is thought
- Parks wrote, “The nasal horn core is outwardly absent, however the nasal bone is sharp above and considerably rugose, suggesting that it might have carried a attractive sheath.” Additionally stated the nasal bone rose abruptly, however had no hint of a horn core and that there was no signal on the floor of the bone that the construction had been misplaced (too clean)
- Later research of Arrhinoceratops discovered Parks had made some errors in his unique description
- In 1933 Richard Swann Lull wrote a revision of Ceratopsia. Lull stated there was extra proof of a nasal horn on Arrhinoceratops than within the sort specimen of Triceratops obtusus (“Hatcher” on the Smithsonian)
- Lull additionally stated it was unusual Arrhinoceratops was so uncommon when tons of of Triceratops had been discovered
- Extra fossils in Utah discovered within the Thirties, that have been posthumously named Arrhinoceratops? utahensis in 1946 by Charles Whitney Gilmore
- Gilmore wasn’t positive it was Arrhinoceratops, as a result of on the time there have been fossils from as much as 11 people of an undescribed ceratopsian, and so they have been all fragmentary so it was arduous to inform what they need to be assigned to
- Gilmore had died the yr earlier than the publication, so a colleague in all probability completed it
- Douglas Lawson reclassified it as Torosaurus utahensis in 1976 (stated it was totally different from Torosaurus latus as a result of Torosaurus latus had a proportionally shorter squamosal bone)
- In 2011 Helen Tyson stated solely the sort specimen may very well be thought of for positive to be Arrhinoceratops brachyops
- Additionally stated Arrhinoceratops did have a nasal core
- And stated that Torosaurus is the closest relative of Arrhinoceratops
- In 2014, extra Arrhinoceratops fossils discovered
- Took two years to excavate, and located infants and adults, so perhaps they traveled in herds or households
- Discovered a bone mattress with 5 specimens
- Earlier than, solely recognized from two skulls
- Fossils present in 2010 by Frank Hadfield, who has been described as a dinosaur fanatic. He seen decrease jaws and a horn core
- Over 3,000 kilos of fossils. Used helicopters to airlift some
- Ready on the Royal Tyrrell Museum
- Not clear how the group died, however may very well be from a flood
- The discover included cranium bones, components of the arms, and hip bones
- In 2014 Jordan Mallon and others printed on new details about Arrhinoceratops
- Described a second specimen, with a comparatively full cranium, vertebrae, and partial left forelimb
- Had a triangular nasal horncore
- In 2015, Jordan Mallon and others printed on the cranium ontogeny of Arrhinoceratops
- Described the partial cranium of a juvenile chasmosaurine attributed to Arrhinoceratops, and checked out extra mature specimens to grasp the ontogeny
- Discovered that as Arrhinoceratops matured, the horncores obtained longer and shifted extra to a ahead inclination, the frill epiossifications grew to become decrease and fused to the underlying frill, and the face obtained longer
- Additionally the scalloping across the frill margins obtained smaller because it aged
- In 2013, Canada’s Museum of Nature in Ottawa had a “Dino Idol” contest, the place guests to the museum voted between 5 dinosaurs (whose fossils have been nonetheless in jackets). The winner obtained ready
- Had 5 choices, all with nicknames: “Headrosaur” (the cranium of a hadrosaur), “Thriller Jaw” (jaw of a carnivore like Gorgosaurus or Daspletosaurus), “Stumpy” (the cranium of a ceratopsid, perhaps Arrhinoceratops), “Regal Ed” (partial skeleton of an Edmontosaurus, whose head had already been ready), and “Canadian Membership” (the again half of an ankylosaur
- “Canadian Membership” received (had been wrapped up for 100 years). All 5 contestants had been collected within the 1910s and Nineteen Twenties by Charles Sternberg and his three sons
- Lived a number of million years earlier than Triceratops
- Different dinosaurs that lived across the similar time and place included Anchiceratops, Albertosaurus, Hypacrosaurus, Saurolophus, Parksosaurus, Ornithomimus, Struthiomimus
Enjoyable Truth:
Ecosystems often have many mesopredators, however only one apex predator. Nonetheless, they generally change roles.
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