Episode 275 is all about Dicraeosaurus, the primary found sauropod with paired spines operating down its neck.
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On this episode, we talk about:
Information:
- A pair of noasaurid bones from Australia develop the identified vary to almost all of Gondwana supply
- The primary case of LCH (Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis) was present in a dinosaur supply
- The Utahraptor Venture has moved their huge sandstone block to a brand new location supply
- A brand new article ranks the US states so as of most dinosaur fossils discoveries supply
- The Illinois Burpee Museum of Pure Historical past’s PaleoFest is developing on March 6–8 supply
- Cellular, Alabama celebrated Mardi Gras with a parade that included a Velociraptor puppeteer supply
- Big Display Movies lately launched the movie Dinosaurs of Antarctica supply
- LucasFilm is launching Star Wars; The Excessive Republic, and should embody dinosaurs supply
- Jurassic World 3 is now formally Jurassic World: Dominion supply
The dinosaur of the day: Dicraeosaurus
- Diplodocoid sauropod that lived within the Late Jurassic in what’s now Tanzania (Tendaguru Hill)
- About 39 ft (12 m) lengthy
- Small for a sauropod
- Estimated to weigh 8800-11000 lb (4000-5000 kg); round identical weight as an elephant
- Didn’t have a whiplash tail
- Didn’t have has a lot pneumaticity within the vertebrae as different sauropods, corresponding to Brachiosaurus
- Changed tooth shortly, round each 20 days for the prexmaillary and rostral maxillary tooth and 50 days for the rostral dentary tooth
- Had a big head, and a comparatively quick, broad neck
- Neck had 12 quick vertebrae
- In all probability a low browser (may eat meals on the bottom and leaves as much as about 10 ft or 3 m off the bottom)
- Had a double row of neural spines on its again
- Spines on the vertebrae have been “Y” formed, like a fork (which led to its identify)
- Spines additionally had muscle attachment factors
- Kind species is Dicraeosaurus hansemanni
- Genus identify means “bifurcated” or “double-headed” or “two forked lizard”
- Described in 1914 by Werner Janensch
- Second species is Dicraeosaurus sattleri
- Not a lot data on the totally different species, however seems to be like there have been each named in 1914, and should have been present in a 1909 excavation
- Different dinosaurs that lived across the identical time and place embody Giraffatitan and Kentrosaurus (ate vegetation at totally different heights, so they might all reside collectively)
Enjoyable Reality:
Dinosaurs (no less than Oviraptorids) eggs hatched sporadically like some trendy birds, not abruptly like trendy crocodiles.
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