Episode 344 is all about Iguanacolossus, The “mighty iguana colossus” which most likely wasn’t any larger than Iguanodon.
We additionally interview Nizar Ibrahim, a paleontologist, anatomist, Senior Lecturer on the College of Portsmouth, Assistant Professor of Biology on the College of Detroit Mercy, Nationwide Geographic explorer, and well-known for his work on Spinosaurus
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On this episode, we focus on:
Information:
- Child dinosaur tooth from 8 teams had been discovered close to the North Pole, displaying these teams probably didn’t migrate supply
- The Boltysh impactor hit no less than half 1,000,000 years after Chicxulub so it didn’t play a task within the mass extinction supply
- New particulars in regards to the youngest dinosaur footprints discovered within the UK supply
- Tyrannosaurus: Meet the Household is on exhibit in Richmond on the Science Museum of Virginia supply
- The L. Alan Cruikshank River of Time Museum in Arizona has a close to life-sized drawing of Sonorasaurus on its wall supply
- The Lyme Regis Fossil Pageant is occurring on-line on July 10 and 11 supply
- Listener Dino Bo was lately featured for his Protohadros hips which will likely be revealed on July 31 in Denton, Texas supply
- Cardiff’s Bute Park within the UK may have animatronic dinosaurs from August 21 to September 5 supply
- A bunch of children began a neighborhood “dino membership” in Riverdale, Utah supply
- A psychedelic One other dinosaur music video by TORRES known as Hug From a Dinosaur was lately posted on YouTube supply
The dinosaur of the day: Iguanacolossus
- Iguanodontian ornithopod that lived within the Early Cretaceous in what’s now Utah (Yellow Cat Member of the Cedar Mountain Formation)
- Seems like Iguanodon, bipedal, with the hoof-like fingers and ponderous physique
- About the identical measurement as Iguanodon
- Herbivorous
- Estimated to be 29.5 ft (9 m) lengthy
- Estimated to weigh between one and 4 tons
- Present in 2005 by Donald DeBlieux, close to Inexperienced River
- Groups led by the Utah Geological Survey excavated
- Described and named in 2010 by Andrew McDonald and others (in the identical paper as Hippodraco, which we coated in episode 322)
- Kind species is Iguanacolossus fortis
- Full identify means “mighty iguana colossus”
- Refers back to the iguana-like tooth of iguanodontians, and its massive measurement
- Described as a “considerably ponderous beast with strong limbs”
- Holotype is UMNH VP 2025, a big partial skeleton that features elements of the tail, many of the spine, some ribs, hips and shoulder (no legs, probably legs had been dragged off by a predator). Additionally consists of elements of the cranium, together with a part of the precise jaw and two unfastened tooth. Tooth in comparison with Camptosaurus and Dakotadon, and one tooth (the broader one with a shield-shaped crown) regarded as a dentary, and the opposite, “the extra lozenge-shaped crown” regarded as a maxillary tooth
- Distinguished by having a contact floor from the supraoccipital to the squamosal (cranium components) that’s “sinuous in caudal view”
- In comparison with family that lived across the similar time however in several areas, appears to be extra basal. Europe and North America had been joined on the time, however Iguanacolossus was extra primitive, so the iguanodonts from America and Europe most likely didn’t work together with one another. Jim Kirkland mentioned in a Salt Lake Tribune article, “It suggests the Appalachia [mountains] had been extra just like the Himalaya again then. It will need to have been a extra formidable barrier than beforehand thought”
- Most likely a couple of million years older than Hippodraco
- One of many earliest recognized Cretaceous dinosaurs present in North America
- Each Iguanacolossus and Hippodraco assist present variety of iguanodonts in North America
- Different dinosaurs that lived across the similar time and place included the sauropod Mierasaurus, theropods Falcarius, Geminiraptor, and Yurgovuchia
Enjoyable Reality:
We now have a brand new definition for a “senile” dinosaur.
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