Episode 328 is all about Lessemsaurus, a Triassic sauropod that was massive for its time in what’s now Argentina.
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The dinosaur of the day: Lessemsaurus
- Sauropod with a protracted neck and lengthy tail that walked on 4 legs, however it’s legs have been extra bent than different sauropods
- Sauropod that lived within the Triassic in what’s now Argentina (Los Colorados Formation in La Rioja Province)
- Estimated to be about 30 ft (9 m) lengthy
- Weighed as much as 10 tonnes
- Had tall neural spines
- Had bent legs (not columnar)
- Fairly massive dinosaur, particularly for the Triassic
- Grew bigger otherwise from different sauropods (Diplodocus, Brontosaurus, Giraffatitan, and so forth.). They grew shortly and it’s thought their physique construction helped, just like the column like legs (to assist with weight)
- Lessemsaurus bones grew briefly, fast bursts
- Sort and solely species: Lessemsaurus sauropoides
- Described by José Bonaparte in 1999
- Genus title is in honor of Don Lessem
- Genus title means Lessem’s lizard
- “Dino” Don Lessem is a pop science author, founding father of the Dinosaur Society and the Jurassic Basis, and the CEO of Dino Don, Inc., which makes animatronic dinosaurs and different creatures
- Bonaparte described as an unnamed superior prosauropod in 1986, later named it in 1999
- When Bonaparte named and described Lessemsaurus, described the eight presacral neural arches, and stated there have been different fossils most likely related to it
- Holotype is barely the eight presacral neural arches
- In 2006, Diego Pol and Jaime Powell described extra Lessemsaurus fossils, together with components of the vertebral column, pectoral girdle, forelimb, pelvis, and hindlimb
- Fossils have been from a number of, most likely three, people (some duplicate bones)
- All have been present in an assemblage
- Mentioned the assemblage was most likely Lessemsaurus as a result of all of the duplicate bones seemed alike, all of the fossils within the assemblage have been distinct from different sauropodomorphs discovered within the space (Riojasaurus and Coloradisaurus)
- Couldn’t decide relative size of forelimb and hindlimb components, due to variety in sizes and disarticulation
- Discovered a variety of similarities with Antetonitrus ingenipes (sauropod from the Early Jurassic in what’s now South Africa)
- Due to similarities with Antetonitrus, could have been a detailed relationship between tetrapods in what’s now South Africa and South America within the Late Triassic (wants extra evaluation)
- Additionally discovered derived characters shared with eusauropods, together with having proportionally quick and excessive dorsal centra (again vertebrae), pubic plate being greater than 40% of the full size of the pubis, and comparatively lengthy metatarsal I (belonging to the primary digit on the foot)
- Cecilia Apaldetti and others in 2018 found Ingentia and Lessemsaurus fossils
- Earlier than the invention of Ingentia and Lessemsaurus fossils, scientists thought sauropods received so massive throughout the Jurassic and that it was linked to eusauropod modifications (column like legs, and so forth.)
- In response to Cecilia Apaldetti and others in 2018, exhibits these dinosaurs began getting greater, greater than 30 million years earlier than the primary recognized eusauropods
- A part of the clade Lessemsauridae, which additionally consists of Antetonitrus, Ingentia, and Ledumahadi
- Dinosaurs that lived across the identical time and place embrace the sauropodomorph Riojasaurus, the massospondylid Coloradisaurus, the theropod Zupaysaurus
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