Episode 317 is all about Protohadros, a hadrosauroid ornithopod discovered close to Dallas, Texas.
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The dinosaur of the day: Protohadros
- Ornithopod that lived within the Late Cretaceous in what’s now Texas, US
- Lived about 95 million years in the past
- Herbivorous
- Cranium was about 28 in (70 cm) lengthy
- Estimated to be 23 ft (7 m) lengthy and weigh 2 tons
- Holotype discovered within the Woodbine Formation in Texas, and features a partial cranium, ribs, hand ungual and neural arch
- Holotype was a subadult, so could have gotten larger
- Not clear precisely the way it regarded based mostly on fragments discovered
- Based mostly on paleoart, seems to be lots like Edmontosaurus in physique form
- Hind legs had been in all probability longer than the entrance legs
- May transfer quadrupedally or bipedally
- Had massive, deep decrease jaws, and snout turned down on the entrance
- Probably a low-browser, ate swamp vegetation that grew in delta streams (scooped up vegetation with its mouth)
- May partially grind meals. Had pleurokinesis (cranial joint system) however the again of the cranium was nonetheless fairly motionless
- Kind species is Protohadros byrdi
- Gary Byrd discovered the ribs and ungual in 1994 at Flower Mound, Denton County in Texas, when he was analyzing a street. He informed Yuong-Nam Lee, who organized the excavation
- First reported in 1996 by Jason Head from Dedman Faculty of Humanities and Sciences, Southern Methodist College
- Described and named in 1998 by Jason Head
- Genus title means “first hadrosaur”
- Jason Head thought it was the oldest recognized hadrosaur
- Species title is in honor of Gary Byrd
- First considered essentially the most basal hadrosaurid, and on the time of discovery thought to point out that hadrosaurids didn’t evolve in Asia, however now it’s thought of to be a much less derived iguanodontian
- Now thought of to be a non-hadrosaurid iguanodontian, a basal member of Hadrosauroidea
- In 1997 attainable Protohadros tracks discovered, and named the ichnospecies Caririchnium protohadrosaurichnos
- Habitat was a wooded marsh
- Extra fossils from smaller people (probably juveniles or subadults) discovered on the Arlington Archosaur Web site close to Dallas-Fort Price, Texas. They’re 30% to 50% smaller than the holotype
- Lots of them had crocodile chunk marks
- Can see a reconstruction of the cranium on the Perot Museum in Dallas, Texas
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