Episode 168 is all about Glacialisaurus, a sauropodomorph from Antarctica whose title means “icy lizard.”
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On this episode, we talk about:
Information:
- Scientists discovered a brand new strategy to date dinosaur bones
- The Chicxulub impression could have precipitated big magma outflow
- Dinosaur and different animal footprints have been discovered close to NASA’s Goddard House Flight Heart in Maryland
- A brand new, not but described hadrosaur, is being studied on the Las Vegas Pure Historical past Museum
- Three ceratopsians from the Cretaceous have been present in Sasayam, Hyogo Prefecture, in Japan
- The Virginia Museum of Pure Historical past bought a grant that may enable the museum to digitally catalogue their fossil assortment
- In Arizona, 11-year-old Jax Weldon is pushing to get a state dinosaur for his residence state
- In Idaho, paleontologist Dr. L.J. Krumenacker is pushing to call Oryctodromeus because the official state dinosaur
- The second trailer for Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom got here out, and there’s a Dinosaur Safety Group web site
- In honor of the twenty fifth anniversary of Jurassic Park, Chronicle Collectibles is promoting a sick Triceratops collectible
- In Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan, a brand new theme park attraction known as Jurassic Island is coming quickly, and it makes use of augmented actuality
- Mazoo Toys sells distinctive dinosaur pine wooden collectibles
- Makezine printed a DIY undertaking the place you possibly can create a wood Stegosaurus that holds reminiscence playing cards
The dinosaur of the day: Glacialisaurus
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- Massospondylid sauropodomorph that lived within the Jurassic in what’s now Antarctica
- Fossils have been discovered within the Nineteen Nineties by Dr. William R. Hammer of Augustana Faculty and a workforce
- Discovered within the decrease a part of the Hanson Formation, in Mount Kirkpatrick
- Fossils have been discovered at an elevation of greater than 13,000 ft (~4,100 meters)
- Needed to take away the bones from ice and rock, utilizing jackhammers, rock saws, and chisels
- Identified from a partial foot and referred materials of a left femur
- Described in 2007 by Nathan Smith and Diego Pol
- Sort species is Glacialisaurus hammeri
- Title means “icy lizard” or “frozen lizard”, and refers back to the Beardmore Glacier area within the Central Transantarctic Mountains, the place the fossils have been discovered
- Species title is in honor of William Hammer
- First sauropodomorph present in Antarctica
- Glacialisaurus exhibits how early sauropods/sauropodomorphs have been distributed (China, South Africa, South America, North America, Antarctica, in all probability because of connections between continents on the time)
- Different sauropod fossils have been present in the identical formation, which exhibits that early sauropods and sauropodomorphs co-existed collectively for some time
- Herbivorous
- Estimated to be 20-25 ft lengthy (6-8 m) and weigh 4-6 tons
- Predators on the time embrace Cryolophosaurus
- Its foot is just like Lufengosaurus (lived within the Early Jurassic in China), which can have been a detailed relative
Enjoyable Truth:
Birds developed from dinosaurs, however birds have been already established earlier than the Okay-Pg Mass Extinction.
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