Episode 236 is all about Gargoyleosaurus, a Jurassic ankylosaur from Wyoming.
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On this episode, we focus on:
Information:
- A brand new Late Jurassic sauropod named Oceanotitan was described from Portugal supply
- A brand new examine reveals that sauropods most likely walked on their toes with a big fleshy pad underneath their heel supply
- About 20 bones have been recovered from the ceratopsian in Highlands Ranch, Colorado supply
- The court docket case over the dueling dinosaurs (a ceratopsian and tyrannosaur) is headed again to Montana supply
- Theropod dinosaur footprints have been present in Phu Pha Lek Nationwide Park in Thailand supply
- Amerst Faculty’s Beneski Museum of Pure Historical past is now dwelling to some dinosaur footprints supply
- Glenrock Paleon Museum in Wyoming has a brand new ceratopsian, nicknamed Carol supply
- Smithsonian created 3D fashions of the Nation’s T. rex and their Triceratops that are free to obtain supply
- There’s a giant dinosaur exhibit on the Guangdong Science Middle in China, referred to as The World’s Largest Dinosaurs supply
- Flamingo Gardens in Florida has life-sized dinosaurs on show supply
- Discipline Station: Dinosaurs reopened in New Jersey supply
- The Milwaukee County Zoo in Wisconsin has Lego dinosaurs for the summer season supply
- In Kansas Metropolis, Missouri, retired couple Bruce and Judith Wake dig up dinosaurs and present them at faculties supply
- PC Video games made an inventory of the perfect dinosaur video games on PC supply
- A brand new manufacturing of Ari Rudenko’s Ghosts of Hell Creek will in Bali, Indonesia on June 14-15 supply
The dinosaur of the day: Gargoyleosaurus
- Ankylosaur that lived within the Jurassic in what’s now Wyoming, US (Morrison Formation)
- Estimated to be about 9.8 to 11.5 ft (3 to three.5 m) lengthy
- Estimated to weigh as much as 2,200 lb (1 tonne)
- Sort species is Gargoyleosaurus parkpinorum
- Described in 1998 by Ken Carpenter and others
- Identify means “gargoyle lizard”
- Genus identify is as a result of its profile seems like a gargoyle
- Species identify is refers to Parker and Pinegar, who discovered the holotype.
- Triangular formed cranium
- Cranium is longer than it’s broad
- Had triangular scutes on the rear corners of the cranium
- Had a slender rostrum
- Had a easy, direct air passage within the snout (not advanced and loops as seen in some Cretaceous ankylosaurids)
- Had an extended, slender scooped beak
- Had deeply inset cheek tooth
- Had 4 sorts of dermal armor: thick, elongated spines, skinny, triangular plates with hole bases, particular person flat, keeled ovate scutes, and scutes and ossicles fused right into a single sheet
- Had postorbital horns
- Had shoulder spines
- Had a mix of ankylosaurid and nodosaurid options (jugal horns, hole based mostly spines and scutes are ankylosaur like, slender snout is nodosaur like)
- Fossils present in 1996 (discovered holotype and two partial skeletons), holotype contains a lot of the cranium and a partial skeleton
- Fossils discovered by Western Paleontological Laboratories, then donated to the Denver Museum of Nature and Science
- A bulldozer had broken the cranium
- Gargoyleosaurus is one in all two ankylosaurs discovered within the Morrison Formation, together with Mymoorapelta
- In 2013 Ken Carpenter and others described a Gargoyleosaurus pelvis, and located that it had an attention-grabbing pelvis, as a result of although it was oriented horizontally, it didn’t flare out like different ankylosaurs. The Gargoyleosaurus pelvis is “intermediate in its morphology” they stated
- Initially referred to as Gargoyleosaurus parkpini, then renamed Gargoyleosaurus parkpinorum in 2001 (they needed to Latinize the identify)
- Can see a skeletal reconstruction on the Denver Museum of Nature and Science
Enjoyable Reality:
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