Episode 280 is all about Sauropelta, a rhinoceros sized armored dinosaur.
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On this episode, we talk about:
Information:
- A chunk of amber from Myanmar seems to include a hummingbird-sized dinosaur supply
- A brand new tracksite on the isle of Skye consists of a number of the oldest stegosaur tracks supply
- The Pure Historical past Museum of Denmark has delayed their unveiling of the T. rex Tristan Otto supply
- Many neighborhoods are placing dinosaurs of their home windows so children can go on scavenger hunts supply
- Tinkercad is operating a create a dinosaur tinker collectively problem supply
- Google Chrome’s T. rex run recreation has been was an train instrument supply
- Liverpool One has relaunched their Dinosaurs Unleashed augmented actuality app, so you should utilize the app at dwelling supply
The dinosaur of the day: Sauropelta
- Nodosaurid that lived within the Early Cretaceous in what’s now North America (Wyoming, Montana, possibly Utah)
- Medium sized, about 17.1 ft (5.2 m) lengthy
- Gregory Paul estimated in 2010 that it was 19.7 ft (6 m) lengthy and weighed 2 tonnes
- Tom Holtz estimated it to be 25 ft (7.6 m) lengthy
- Had an extended tail that was about half the size of its physique
- One skeleton was discovered with 40 tail vertebrae, although some had been lacking, so there have been extra (possibly 50)
- Weighed about 3,300 lb (1,500 kg), about the identical as a contemporary rhinoceros
- Heavy due to its armor, and had massive spines on its neck
- Coated in osteoderms (one skeleton discovered with osteoderms preserved in situ)
- Had two parallel rows of dome scutes that ran down the neck
- The again and tail had ossicles and huge conical scutes that ran in parallel rows
- The hips had ossicles and huge domed plates that shaped a sacral protect
- Had spines on the perimeters of the neck, that had been bigger by the shoulders, after which small once more alongside the facet of the physique (ended on the hips)
- Had flat, triangular plates on either side of the tail that pointed outwards
- Had massive shoulder spines
- Spikes would have made it look bigger and been intimating, good for protection that manner
- Quadrupedal and herbivorous
- In all probability sluggish transferring
- Forelimbs had been shorter than hindlimbs
- Had a large physique, with a broad pelvis and ribcage
- Had massive limbs
- Had stout ft, limbs, and shoulders
- Had brief, broad ft
- In all probability had a “net” of pores and skin between its toes, and toes had been unfold out, to distribute weight, and possibly had padding to cushion its steps
- Adapated to be heavy
- Had a stiff tail
- Had a brief neck
- Had a stiff neck
- Had a triangular cranium, that was flat on the prime (not domed)
- Thick roof of the cranium that had flat, bony plates that had been very tightly fused (seemed easy), however that could possibly be as a consequence of preservation or preparation of the fossils
- Had thick, triangular scutes popping out from behind the eyes, beneath the eyes, and close to the cheeks
- Had leaf-shaped tooth, used to chop by way of vegetation
- In all probability had a keratinous beak
- Could have been a low browser
- In all probability ate conifers and cycads
- One of many earliest recognized nodosaurids
- Kind species: Sauropelta edwardsorum (could also be different species, although not named)
- Genus title means “lizard protect”
- Title refers to its armor
- Barnum Brown discovered the holotype of Sauropelta within the Cloverly Formation in Montana, within the early Thirties, within the Crow Indian Reservation (additionally discovered two different skeletons)
- A kind of skeletons had in situ armor, and is on show on the AMNH
- John Ostrom from Yale’s Peabody Museum discovered extra specimens within the Cloverly Formation in Wyoming and Montana within the Sixties, and named Sauropelta in 1970
- Ostrom named it Sauropelta edwardsorum, and George Olshevsky modified it to Sauropelta edwardsi to stick to Latin grammar guidelines
- Generally confused with the title Peltosaurus, which Brown utilized in lectures and museum displays, however by no means formally as a reputation or description. In 1972 the title Peltosaurus was revealed with a photograph of one of many Sauropelta specimens
- Peltosaurus is already the title of a North American lizard
- Carpenter and others described materials of a giant nodosaurid present in Utah, within the Cedar Mountain Formation in 1999, and stated it was probably a brand new species, however didn’t title it. Later, Carpenter solely referred to the specimen as a nodosaurid
- Different fossils discovered, however haven’t been formally described. They embrace a cranium from the Cloverly Formation, and a big fragmentary skeleton from the Cedar Mountain Formation
- Probably Sauropelta footprints have been present in British Columbia in Canada (Charles Sternberg discovered them in 1932). However don’t know for positive. Often called Tetrapodosaurus borealis, an ichnogenus (initially considered ceratopsian, now considered nodosaurid, in keeping with Kenneth Carpenter in 1984)
- Lived in huge floodplains close to rivers that flowed to the shallow inland sea. Numerous river flooding, so it was muddy. After Cloverly, the shallow sea expanded and have become the Western Inside Seaway
- Different dinosaurs on the similar time and place included the ornithopod Tenontosaurus (most typical herbivore), the ornithopod Zephyrosaurus, titanosaurs, theropod Deinonychus, oviraptorosaur Microvenator, and the theropod Acrocanthosaurus
- Different animals included lungfish, mammals, turtles, crocodilians
- One in all Mattel’s 2020 Jurassic World Primal Assault toys, referred to as Savage Strike Sauropelta
Enjoyable Reality:
There’s potential to get some data from all the mesozoic (all of dinosaur historical past) utilizing amber.
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