Episode 223 is all about Nodosaurus, the unique member of Nodosauridae: The clade of ankylosaurs with out tail golf equipment.
Interview with Thomas Hopp, scientist, inventor, lecturer, and creator. He’s written quite a lot of brief tales and novels, together with the science fiction collection Dinosaur Wars.
He has additionally proposed that dinosaurs developed feathers on their hindlimbs to heat their nests. Listed here are PDFs of his feather paper and his poster from SVP.
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On this episode, we talk about:
Information:
- A brand new American Tyrannosauroid, Moros intrepidus, was about 30 million years youthful than T. rex and 1% its dimension supply
- The Irish coast guard have been referred to as to get well some T. rex bones which turned out to be a hoax supply
- Matt Lamanna, will current “Diving for Dinosaurs: Cretaceous fossils from Croatia” on the Carnegie Museum of Pure Historical past supply
- Pismo Seaside, California, had a grand re-opening lately for Dinosaur Caves Park supply
- Within the UK, now you can purchase Easter-themed chocolate dinosaurs at each Aldi and Marks & Spencer supply
- Metahub posted a listing of the very best and worst dinosaurs in Jurassic World Alive supply
The dinosaur of the day: Nodosaurus
- Ankylosaur that lived within the Late Cretaceous in what’s now North America
- Herbivorous
- Estimated to be about 13 to twenty ft (4 to six m) lengthy
- Had bony plates on the highest of its physique, and will have had spikes on the facet of its physique
- Bony plates have been like bands, alternating between slim and vast bands over the ribs
- The broader bands have been additionally coated in bony knobs
- Had a brief neck and a protracted, stiff tail (no membership)
- Had a small, slim head, pointed snout, small enamel, and highly effective jaws
- Had 5 toes on every foot
- Had highly effective forelimbs
- Named in 1889 by Othniel Charles Marsh (very temporary description)
- Richard Swan Lull gave a extra detailed description in 1921
- Lull additionally described flat scutes, spines, and plates, although he didn’t illustrate them
- Carpenter and Kirkland revisited the outline in 1998
- In 2015, a 4-year-old boy, Wylie Brys discovered what’s regarded as a Nodosaurus fossil in Mansfield, Texas. He and his father Tim have been wanting round behind a shopping mall. At first they thought it was s turtle fossil. They reached out to Southern Methodist College and labored with them to excavate the world
- Sort species is Nodosaurus textilis
- Identify means “knobbed lizard”
- Species title refers back to the texture close to the pinnacle (small ossifications in quadrangular kind, organized in rows. Marsh mentioned “The exterior floor is perculiarly marked by a texture that seems interwoven, like a rough material. This has recommended the species title.”
- Nodosaurus is the sort genus for the nodosaurid group
- Two teams in Ankylosauria: nodosaurids and ankylosaurids
- Nodosaurids are normally extra primitive, they usually don’t have tail golf equipment, and usually skulls usually are not as brief or broad as ankylosaurids, and the skulls weren’t coated in scutes
- Can see Nodosaurus within the Illustrated Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs (a.ok.a. Normanpedia), illustrated by John Sibbick in 1889
- Also can see Nodosaurus within the Land Earlier than Time collection (seems within the third film, as a personality named Nod)
- Also can see Nodosaurus within the recreation Jurassic World Evoution (unlock by way of the Hammond Basis if you full the Science Division’s mission on Isla Tacaño. Mannequin is predicated on Borealopelta
Enjoyable Reality:
For the tyrannosaur linneage to evolve from Moros interpidus dimension to T. rex dimension they’d have wanted to develop about 4 grams per technology.S