Episode 253 is all about Skorpiovenator, a barely smaller hornless relative of Carnotaurus. It’s probably the most full abelisaurids discovered to this point.
We additionally interview Dave Hone, lecturer in Zoology at Queen Mary College of London. He’s an skilled in each dinosaurs and pterosaurs. He wrote the Tyrannosaur Chronicles and simply described the pterosaur Cryodrakon. Discover him on-line @Dave_Hone, on fb, or on his weblog Archosaur Musings.
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On this episode, we talk about:
Information:
- A brand new research reveals the primary day of the Cenozoic had enormous Sulphur emissions and widespread fires supply
- The second most full T. rex, Victoria, is happening a world tour for the subsequent 5 years supply
- The Kids’s Museum of Indianapolis has a brand new Jurassic Paleo Prep Lab supply
- New youngsters’s present known as Tremendous Dinosaur might be on Amazon on Oct 6 supply
- The sport Jurassic World Evolution has a brand new herbivore dinosaur pack supply
- The brand new brief Jurassic World Battle at Huge Rock was launched on YouTube supply
The dinosaur of the day: Skorpiovenator
- Abelisaurid that lived within the Late Cretaceous in what’s now Argentina (Huincul Formation)
- Probably the most full abelisaurids identified
- Holotype was largely full (solely lacking components of the tail and forelimbs)
- Estimated to be 19.7 ft (6 m) lengthy. Gregory Paul estimated it to be 24.6 ft (7.5 m) lengthy and weigh 1.67 tons. One other estimate in 2016 mentioned it was 20.3 ft (6.2 m) lengthy
- Had brief, just about ineffective arms
- Had sturdy legs and thighs
- Had a brief, stout cranium that had many ridges, furrows, and bumps
- Not clear why it had so many bumps on its head
- Cranium was shorter and deeper than Abelisaurus and Majungasaurus
- Had 19 maxillary tooth, greater than different abelisaurids
- Since so many tooth have been discovered with the skeleton, the invention of Skorpiovenator makes it simpler for scientists to match tooth and determine what sort of dinosaur it got here from. It’s potential that tooth regarded as from carcharodontosaurids on the finish of the Cretaceous could have been Skorpiovenator (or different abelisaurids), and helps shed extra mild on the varieties of dinosaurs that lived within the Cretaceous in South America
- Described in 2009 by Canale, Scanferia, Agnolin, and Novas
- Identify means “scorpion hunter”
- A lot of scorpions on the dig website
- The sort species is Skorpiovenator bustingorryi
- Species identify in honor of Manuel Bustingorry, proprietor of the farm the place the dinosaur was discovered
- Different dinosaurs in the identical time and place included carcharodontosaurid Mapusaurus and abelisaurid Ilokelesia
- Fossils at the moment are on the Ernesto Bachmann Paleontological Museum of Villa El Chocón, Patagonia, Argentina
Enjoyable Truth:
It’s possible that pterosaurs and early flying dinosaurs have been usually consuming one another.