Episode 266 is all about Futalognkosaurus, one of the crucial full titanosaurs ever discovered.
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The dinosaur of the day: Futalognkosaurus
- Titanosaur sauropod that lived within the Late Cretaceous in what’s now Argentina (Neuquén province, Portezuelo Formation)
- Initially estimated to be 105-112 ft (32-34 m) lengthy, however in 2008 estimated to be 85 ft (26 m) lengthy; Gregory Paul estimated it was at most 98 ft (30 m) lengthy (although laborious to say, since many of the tail wasn’t discovered)
- Estimated size with tail primarily based on proportions of different titanosaurs, although paleontologists want extra fossils to get a greater concept of its precise size
- Comparable in measurement to Puertasaurus and Argentinosaurus (one paper says it was about 15 to 25 % smaller)
- Estimated to weigh between 38 and 50 tons
- Had a powerful, giant neck, which exhibits extra variety in titanosaurs
- Neck had 14 vertebrae, and had tall neural spines with a “shark-fin” form
- Had giant, cumbersome hips that have been nearly 10 ft (3 m) large
- Sort species: Futalognkosaurus dukei
- Genus identify means “large chief lizard”
- Genus identify comes from Mapuche language (futa means large and lognko means chief)
- Species identify is in honor of the Duke Energey Argentina Firm, which sponsored the dig in 2002-2003
- Fossils present in 2000, collected between 2002 and 2005, and described in 2007 by Jorge Calvo and others
- Futalognkosaurus was named primarily based on three specimens (skeleton was about 70% full), and was described on the time by the staff as “probably the most full large dinosaur identified to date”
- Holotype included a whole neck, dorsal vertebrae, ribs, pelvis, and one caudal vertebra (tail)
- Fossils are housed on the CePaLB-Universidad del Comahue, Neuquén, Argentina
- Herbivorous
- Most likely lived in a heat tropical local weather, primarily based on fossilized fish and leaves discovered close to the dinosaur bones
- Additionally discovered extra angiosperms than gymnosperms within the space, which can imply Futalognkosaurus ate numerous angiosperms
- Different animals present in the identical time and place embody pterosaurs, fish, crocodylomorphs, sauropods, theropods, ornithopods, (lots of the dinosaurs not but formally described), in addition to extra particularly, Megaraptor and Unenlagia
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