Episode 211 is all about Dracopelta, an ankylosaur with sides coated in overlapping armor.
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On this episode, we focus on:
Information:
- A brand new dinosaur, and shut relative to Carnotaurus, was named after the supervillain Thanos supply
- The holotype jaw of Megalosaurus from the 1790s was chemically analyzed, they discovered Lead and Barium indicating two separate repairs supply
- A uncommon opalized dinosaur toe bone of Kakuru kujani from South Australia resurfaced on the market on-line after 5 a long time supply
- Johnston Park has a brand new theropod on show, often called the Rosewood Swamp Tramper, together with different dinosaur statues supply
- 39 juvenile Psittacosaurus went on show in Shenyang, Liaoning Province in China supply
- The Museum of Science of the Chicxulub Crater simply opened on Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula supply
- The Yale Peabody Museum renovations will start in 2020, with plans to reopen the museum within the fall of 2023 supply
- The Museum of the Rockies is providing Excursions for Tots: Rising Dinosaurs on February 5 supply
- The Dalton Wells dinosaur web site, north of Moab, close to Arches Nationwide Park in Utah, goes via a proposal to have an entity handle it to assist handle vandalism supply
- DinoFest 2019 is going on quickly, on January 26 and 27 on the Pure Historical past Museum of Utah in Salt Lake Metropolis supply
- The Magic Forest amusement park in Lake George, New York has a brand new supervisor who plans on including dinosaurs supply
- A welding firm in Kilgore, Texas has a metal raptor supply
- A four-year-old acquired over 100 dinosaur toys from variety strangers after he misplaced his assortment within the current Camp Fireplace supply
The dinosaur of the day: Dracopelta
- Ankylosaur that lived within the Jurassic in what’s now Portugal
- Being from the Jurassic it was within the early phases of ankylosaur evolution
- It’s a nodasaur so it didn’t have a tail membership
- Herbivorous
- Sort species is Dracopelta zbyszewskii
- Title means “dragon defend”
- Species title in honor of the paleontologist Georges Zbyszewski
- -a portugese vertebrate paleontologist
- Described in 1980 by Peter Galton
- Just one identified specimen, present in Ribamar. There are two localities referred to as Ribamar in the identical area of Portugal. One is from the Early Cretaceous, the opposite from the Late Jurassic. In 2003, Antunes and Mateus instructed Dracopelta most likely got here from the Late Jurassic locality
- Holotype is a partial skeleton, features a rib cage, 13 dorsal vertebrae, 5 various kinds of scutes, and ossified tendons
- It got here out as a pleasant articulated block, however a big portion of the center had eroded away
- It had a really broad again for its early Jurassic age. Much like later ankylosaurs.
- It’s sides are coated with overlapping armor. The most important piece is 19cm by 11cm (7.5in x 4.3in)
- The truth that it had ossified tendons could imply that different kinfolk could have had them too
- A part of Ankylosauria, however thought of to be incertae sedis (unsure placement) inside (could possibly be ankylosaurid or nodosaurid)
- Different dinosaurs from the identical formation embody ornithopods, Hypsolophodon, the sauropods Apatosaurus, Brachiosaurus and Astrodon, the stegosaur Dacentrurus, the iguanodontid Camptosaurus, and the carnivore Megalosaurus
- The holotype is within the Museum of the Geological Survey of Portugal, Lisbon
Enjoyable Truth:
X-rays can simply see via rock, however not lead. Principally as a result of lead has so many extra electrons than Silicon and Oxygen (the principle elements of rock).
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