Episode 126 is all about Australovenator, a megaraptoran theropod that lived within the Cretaceous in what’s now Australia.
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Banjo the Australovenator, at Australian Age of Dinosaurs
The dinosaur of the day: Australovenator
- Megaraptoran theropod that lived within the Cretaceous in what’s now Australia (Queensland)
- Title means “southern hunter”
- Sort species is Australovenator wintonensis
- Species identify refers back to the township of Winton (discovered close to there)
- Described in 2009 by Scott Hocknull and group
- Just one identified specimen, nicknamed “Banjo” after Banjo Paterson (Australian bush poet, journalist, and writer)
- Bush poetry is a mode that depicts the Australian bush (any sparsely-inhabited area in Australia, which Banjo revered as a supply of nationwide beliefs)
- Banjo the Australovenator has discovered with Diamantinasaurus, a sauropod, on the Matilda web site in Australia
- Different animals that lived on the similar time in the identical place embody fish, turtles, crocodilians, bugs, pterosaurs, ankylosaurians, hypsiolophodonts, sauropods (Diamantinasaurus and Wintonotitan). Vegetation embody ferns, ginkgoes, gymnosperms and angiosperms
- Most full skeleton present in Australia of a carnivorous dinosaur that lived within the Cretaceous
- Scott Hocknell known as it the “cheetah of its time” (light-weight predator)
- Holotype contains left dentary, tooth, partial forelimbs and hindlimbs, partial proper ilium, ribs, and gastralia
- About 6.6 ft (2 m) tall and 20 ft (6 m) lengthy, weighing 1100-2200 lb (500-1000 kg)
- Had recurved, serrated tooth
- Light-weight and quick, might run down prey
- Some similarities with Fukuiraptor and Megaraptor
- Megaraptors had been the dominant carnivorous dinosaurs in Australia within the mid-Cretaceous
- Can see Australovenator on the Australian Age of Dinosaurs Museum of Pure Historical past
Enjoyable truth:
About 550 million years in the past (again within the Precambrian) the Bilaterian animals advanced. The frequent characteristic on this clade is that (virtually) each animal has a definite head, and are “bilaterally symmetric” that means the fitting half of the animal is a mirror of the left half. That is completely different than the group of “radially symmetric” animals like jellyfish or grownup starfish. Early Bilaterians included issues like worms, however shortly after chordates after which vertebrates advanced to incorporate fish, dinosaurs, and finally people. One place you see reference to bilaterians in paleontology is with using the phrase “postcranial”, actually after the top. Since (virtually) all Bilaterians (that are largely what fossilize) have heads, it’s a straightforward solution to consult with the remainder of the animal. One of the helpful options of dinosaurs being bilaterally symmetric is that you just technically solely want to search out one half of the animal to know precisely what it regarded like.”
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