Episode 287 is all about Callovosaurus, a Dryosaurid which is featured in some editions of Jurassic Park (the primary e book).
We additionally interview Dr. Steve Poropat from Swinburne College & Analysis affiliate at Australian Age of Dinosaurs and Adele Pentland PhD candidate at Swinburne College & Analysis affiliate at Australian Age of Dinosaurs.
Right here’s a creative rendering of the brand new elaphrosaur in motion. Can you see Nessy within the picture under? (Trace: It’s not within the water, zooming required)
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On this episode, we focus on:
Information:
- A fetal Lufengosaurus reveals us the place Diplodocus in all probability acquired its tooth supply
- The Montana Supreme Courtroom has confirmed that the Dueling Dinosaurs should not included in generic “mineral rights” supply
- The Jurassic Coast has new guidelines for fossil collectors supply
- Mary Anning’s biopic, “Ammonite” starring Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan has been delayed supply
- Dinosaur Uncover Web site at Johnson Farm reopened just lately however with restricted hours supply
- A world scholar allegedly broke unto the Australian Museum in Sydney and took selfies subsequent to the dinosaur reveals supply
- The Crystal Palace Megalosaurus has been broken, you may donate to assist pay for repairs supply
The dinosaur of the day: Callovosaurus
- Iguanodontian that lived within the Center Jurassic in what’s now England (Oxford Clay Formation)
- Recognized from an almost full left thigh bone (0.92 ft or 28 cm lengthy)
- Partial tibia (shin bone) discovered close to by could also be Callovosaurus
- Estimated to be 8.2 ft (2.5 m) lengthy
- Herbivorous
- Kind species is Callovosaurus leedsi
- Genus title means “Callovian lizard”
- Callovian is an age and stage within the Center Jurassic, fossil present in center Callovian
- Described in 1889 by Richard Lydekker, initially named Camptosaurus leedsi
- Species title in honor of the collector Alfred Nicholson Leeds
- In 1980, Peter Galton analyzed the fossil and named it as a brand new genus, Callovosaurus
- Some scientists thought it was a doubtful iguanodontian
- Femur was present in a brick pit close to Fletton
- Femur was initially full, and now’s in three items that match collectively
- Solid of the femur made in 1888
- In 1909, Gilmore mentioned that Camptosaurus leedsi was much like Camptosaurus however “if referable in any respect to an American genus, its closest affinities, as indicated by the femur, are with Dryosaurus”
- In 2006, Jose Ignacio Ruiz-Omeñaca and others discovered it to be a sound genus, and the oldest identified dryosaurid
- Initially categorized as Camptosauridae, now Dryosauridae
- Femur is much like Dryosaurus and Valdosaurus
- Closest relative is Dryosaurus
- Different animals that lived across the identical time and place included ichthyosaurs, plesiosaurs, crocodyliforms, pterosaurs, the sauropod Cetiosaurus, the stegosaurs Loricatosaurus and Lexovisaurus and the ankylosaur Sarcolestes
- Replaces Microceratus in some editions of the primary novel, Jurassic Park
- One of many dinosaur toys in Jurassic World Assault Pack
Enjoyable Reality:
Birds have skulls with many options of their child Mesozoic dinosaur counterparts (chook skulls are paedomorphic).
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