Episode 209 is all about Beishanlong, the “North Mountains dragon” from Gansu China.
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The dinosaur of the day: Beishanlong
- Giant ornithomimosaurian theropod that lived within the Early Cretaceous in what’s now the Gansu Province, China
- Sturdy, with lengthy legs and arms
- Very massive, estimated to be 26 ft (8 m) lengthy, although the holotype was nonetheless rising when it died, so most likely grew even bigger (had 13-14 LAGs, so was most likely a subadult, although its development had slowed down)
- Estimated to weigh 1380 lb (626 kg)
- Might have had enamel and a keratinous beak, just like different dinosaurs corresponding to Harpymimus
- Probably omnivorous, primarily based on different ornithomimosaurs being omnivores
- Beishanlong is just like Harpymimus, one other ornithomimosaur
- Formally described in 2010 by Peter Makovicky and others
- Sort species is Beishanlong grandis
- Identify means “North Mountains dragon”
- Refers to Bei Shan, the North Mountains
- Species title means “massive” in Latin
- Three fossils discovered within the early 2000s
- Described and named on-line in 2009
- Holotype present in 2006, a partial skeleton with no cranium
- In 2007, extra specimens discovered, together with hindlimbs
- In 1999 foot bones have been discovered, and tentatively referred to Beishanlong
- Different dinosaurs that lived in the identical time and place included therizinosauroids, hadrosauroids, and tyrannosauroids
Enjoyable Truth:
Previous to the invention of Dromaeosauriformipes, Minisauripus was thought of to be the smallest recognized dinosaur observe. They’re from a theropod and are about 1cm (0.4in) lengthy. Nonetheless they aren’t all that small. Minisauripus tracks have been reported as massive as 20cm (~8in), 20x as massive because the presumably juvenile tracks.
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