Episode 334 is all about Erketu, a titanosaur with some critically lengthy neck vertebrae.
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On this episode, we talk about:
Information:
- A brand new abelisaurid named Llukalkan was present in Patagonia together with an almost full cranium supply
- Evaluation of the cretaceous rock in Mongolia exhibits a local weather much like Southern California supply
- In Fujian Province, China, scientists have discovered a “dinosaur dance flooring” with over 600 tracks uncovered to date supply
- A big theropod monitor was discovered on the Yorkshire coast of England supply
- The T. rex Trix was scanned, 3D printed at full scale, and assembled for a brand new dinosaur museum in Nagasaki, Japan supply
- The Missouri Institute of Pure Science in Springfield is having a raptor run supply
- Dinosaur Nationwide Monument is reopening the Quarry Exhibit Corridor on Could 1 supply
- McAllen, Texas has a Dinos and Dragons Journey Park from now till Could 15 supply
- St. Louis Put up Dispatch shared 5 locations folks can dig for dinosaurs and different prehistoric animals supply
- Common Studios Hollywood just lately up to date Jurassic World – The Journey to incorporate a 55ft lengthy Indominus combating T. rex supply
The dinosaur of the day: Erketu
- Somphospondylan (titanosauriform) sauropod that lived within the Late Cretaceous in what’s now Mongolia (Bayan Shireh Formation)
- Seems to be titanosaur-like, with columnar legs and a really lengthy neck
- Had a really lengthy neck relative to its physique measurement (based mostly on its elongate cervical vertebrae)
- Neck estimated to be twice so long as its physique
- Don’t know what number of vertebrae within the neck, solely that every one was very lengthy (however Daniel Ksepka estimated 14 or 15)
- Vertebra lengths ranged from 6.3 in (160 mm) to 19.2 in (489 mm)
- Had air cavities within the neck and bigger vertebrae had a V-shaped notch
- Cervical neural spines have been deeply bifurcated (5 by means of 9)
- Described in 2006 by Daniel Ksepka and Mark Norell
- Ksepka stated, “It’s nearly like having a bungee twine holding the neck up”
- Norell stated, “On the weirdo index, that is fairly bizarre”
- No cranium discovered
- Herbivorous and possibly a excessive browser, with its lengthy neck
- Kind species is Erketu ellisoni
- Genus identify is after Erketü, a type of the god Tengri (from Mongolian shamanism); Erketu Tengri is the Mighty Tengri, a creator-god who referred to as Yesugei, the daddy of Genghis Khan, into being
- Species identify is in honor of Mick Ellison, for his contributions to ongoing AMNH dinosaur analysis
- Fossils discovered throughout a area expedition in 2002 and 2003, as a part of an American Museum of Pure Historical past and Mongolian Academy of Sciences expedition
- Crew discovered new locality Bor Guvé within the Bayan Shireh Formation
- Referred fossils described in 2010 (discovered three extra cervicals in 2003)
- Fossils discovered embody 8 cervical vertebrae (discovered articulated first by means of fifth cervical vertebrae and partial sixth, then later 3 extra articulated cervical vertebrae, 7, 8, and 9), a part of the correct sternum, tibia, and fibula, with astragalus and calcaneum (ankle and heel bones)
- One of many first sauropods described from the Bayan Shireh Formation
- Estimated to be 49 ft (15 m) lengthy and weigh 11,000 lb; although no dorsal vertebrae discovered (however hindlimb materials helped with estimate)
- Proper hindlimb bones discovered are much like Gobititan, a titanosauriform present in China
- Fibula was longer than the tibia, however damaged on the finish
- Shut relative of Euhelopus (sauropod present in China with forelimbs longer than hindlimbs)
- Lived close to lakes and rivers, on a floodplain, in a semi-arid local weather
- Different dinosaurs that lived across the similar time and place included the dromaeosaur Achillobator, the hadrosauroid Gobihadros, the ankylosaur Talarurus, the therizinosaurs Erlikosaurus and Segnosaurus
- Additionally discovered with fossilized fruits (that resemble okra), and turtles
Enjoyable Reality: Stegosaurus had alternating plates on its again, however different stegosaurs have been discovered with pairs of plates.
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