Episode 188 is all about Lophorhothon, the “crested nostril” hadrosauroid from Alabama, USA.
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On this episode, we talk about:
Information:
- Researchers checked out dinosaur hyoid bones to guess what their tongues might have been like
- When The Smithsonian Nationwide Museum of Pure Historical past dinosaur corridor reopens it’ll permit guests to just about feed an Edmontosaurus
- In Ulan Bator, Mongolia, a person was not too long ago arrested for hiding a Protoceratops fossil and planning to promote it
- A hadrosaur thighbone from 70 million years in the past was present in Kagoshima Prefecture in Japan, on Kamikoshikijima island
- New theropod footprint present in northern Germany
- An interactive map exhibits what Earth regarded like at numerous durations in time, together with at your handle
- There’s a life-sized 3D printed Triceratops on the Gare d’Austerlitz railway station in France
- Hempstead, Texas, is residence to one of many largest collections of concrete dinosaurs
- Seven yr previous Sarah Gomez-Lane gained the annual Doodle 4 Google contest with a drawing of dinosaurs
- Particulars about the historical past behind the Jurassic Park brand
- A brand new Alexa talent referred to as “Jurassic World Revealed” is sort of a (dear) select your individual journey
The dinosaur of the day: Lophorhothon
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- Hadrosauroid that lived within the Cretaceous in what’s now Alabama, U.S.
- Title means “crested nostril”
- Kind species is Lophorhothon aptopus
- Species title means “unusual” or “unusual”
- First dinosaur of its form present in Alabama
- Found by Rainier Zangerl, Invoice Turnbull, and Charles Barber whereas on a Discipline Museum expedition, in 1946 within the Mooreville Chalk Formation (close to Selma, Alabama)
- Holotype features a fragmented cranium, vertebrae, and elements of the forelimbs and hindlimbs
- Holotype was most likely washed out to sea by a river, after which sank and was buried
- Holotype is now within the Discipline Museum of Chicago’s collections
- Named in 1960 by Wann Langston
- Herbivorous
- Estimated to be 14’9 (4.5 m) lengthy
- Because the holotype, has additionally been discovered within the Black Creek Formation in North Carolina
- Some scientists assume it will not be a sound genus (could be a juvenile Prosaurolophus, or, as James Lamb steered in 1998, it could be a basal iguanodont)
- Others, resembling Horner, Weishampel, and Forster, in 2004, stated it was a basal hadrosaurine
- A 2010 examine discovered it was a basal member of hadrosauroidea
Enjoyable Truth:
A big portion of this got here from SV-POW
Argentinosaurus most likely pooped about 400Kg (900lbs) per day.
If it was all excreted directly, the pile can be about 1/4 the dimensions of the bigger pile proven in Jurassic Park.
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