Episode 247 is all about Patagonykus, The “Patagonian claw” alvarezsaur from the Cretaceous.
We additionally interview Annalisa Berta, a paleontologist and professor emerita at San Diego State College. She’s additionally the co-author, together with Dr. Susan Turner, of the upcoming e-book Girls in Vertebrate Paleontology, which is a historical past of girls bone hunters starting within the late 1700s.
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On this episode, we talk about:
Information:
- Elektorornis chenguangi was named primarily based on its fuzzy foot, which was present in amber supply
- Elektorornis might have used its toe fuzz like birds use their facial bristles immediately supply
- A workforce of paleontologists discovered the primary ever Tyrannosauripus footprint in China supply
- The Nice Plains Dinosaur Museum is providing a dinosaur dig program for adults and children in Malta, Montana supply
- Leeds metropolis centre, within the UK, has 5 animatronic dinosaurs for the subsequent few weeks supply
- In Fortnite Season X, there are weekly missions, together with discovering dinosaurs supply
- The brand new anime sequence “Jurassic!” will mix a contemporary world and prehistoric animals supply
The dinosaur of the day: Patagonykus
- Alvarezsaur that lived within the Cretaceous in what’s now Neuquen Province, Argentina (Portezuelo Formation)
- Estimated to be 6.5 ft (2 m) lengthy
- Holotype is incomplete, and consists of vertebrae, partial forelimb, pelvic girdle, and hindlimbs (no cranium)
- In all probability ate bugs
- Alvaresaurs are small, bipedal, and doubtless ate bugs
- Alvaresaurs additionally had brief, sturdy forelimbs
- Kind species is Patagonykus puertai
- Genus title means “Patagonian claw”
- Described in 1996 by Novas
- A second specimen was present in 2003, however just one digit from its finger
- Different dinosaurs that lived across the similar time and place embody Megaraptor, Rinconsaurus and Antarctosaurus
Enjoyable Truth:
By Tarbosaurus tooth, it seems that what’s now the Gobi dessert was as soon as a forest stuffed with conifer bushes (issues like redwood, pine, & cedar).