I Know Dino Podcast Present Notes: Utahceratops (Episode 65)

Episode 65 is all about Utahceratops, a three-horned ceratopsian with a big head.

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Species: Utahceratops gettyi
Species title is after Mike Getty, who discovered the holotype and helped get well fossils within the Grand Staircase-Escalante Monument
Named in 2010 by Scott Sampson, Mark Loewen, Andrew Farke, Eric Roberts, Catherine Forster, Joshua Smith, and Alan Titus

Had lots of of tooth in a dental battery, used to chomp down on vegetation
Massive frill and three horns, however the horns over eyes weren’t as massive because the horns over a Triceratops eyes (brief, stubby, and pointed to the facet)
Additionally had two holes in its frill, to assist scale back the load of its cranium

Nostril horn caught straight up
Horns have been most likely to draw mates or scare off rivals, not likely used as protection
Been likened as a “big rhino with a ridiculously supersized head” by co-author Mark Loewen

Named concurrently Kosmoceratops (similar paper in PLOS One, referred to as “New Horned Dinosaurs from Utah Present Proof for Intracontinental Dinosaur Endemism”)
Kosmoceratops had extra ornate horns/frills
Utahceratops was bigger than Kosmoceratops

As a result of Utahceratops lived in the identical time and place as Kosmoceratops, and these two ceratopsians lived concurrently different ceratopsids in Montana and Alberta, Canada, scientists suppose there was some barrier in northern Utah to maintain them from mingling. However it’s unclear what that barrier may have been
Within the Cretaceous, western and japanese North America was separated by a flooding of water
Paleontologist Thomas Holtz stated to Nationwide Geographic Information, “For those who have been a time traveler and also you went again to the late Cretaceous, you can take a ship from the Gulf of Mexico and sail all the best way as much as the Arctic Ocean and also you wouldn’t see land.”
Utahceratops lived on a floodplain with a lot of swamps, ponds, and lakes, in a moist, humid local weather

Different dinosaurs within the space included tyrannosaurid Tertophoneus, hadrosaurs Parasaurolophus and Gryposaurus, ceratopsians Nasutoceratops and Kosmoceratops
Can see Utahceratops on the Pure Historical past Museum of Utah
Ceratopsians have been ornithiscians

Lived in North America and Asia
That they had beaks and cheek tooth to eat fiberous vegetation
Additionally had a frill (used for protection, regulating physique temperature, attracting mates, or signaling hazard)

In all probability traveled in herds and will then stampede if threatened
Chasmosaurinae is a subfamily of ceratopsid
Chasmosaurinae had massive forehead horns and lengthy frills (in comparison with centrosaurines, one other subfamily of ceratopsid, which had brief forehead horns and shorter frills with lengthy spines popping out of the frills)

Chasmosaurine fossils have been present in western Canada, the western United States, and northern Mexico.
Enjoyable Truth: Other than a number of hadrosaurs (Brachylophosaurus, Gilmoreosaurus, Bactrosaurus and Edmontosaurus) and the latest discovery in a titanosaur, tumors have been discovered on different fossils. In line with Discovery Information: “The oldest identified case of osteoma dates to the early Carboniferous (a interval spanning 359.2 million to 299 million years in the past) within the North American fish Phanerosteon mirabile. The mosasaur Platecarpus, a marine reptile, additionally had an osteoma, as did a crocodile, Leidyosuchus formidabilis.“

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