Episode 62 is all about Fosterovenator, a uncommon juvenile theropod from the Morrison Formation.
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On this episode, we focus on:
- The dinosaur of the day: Fosterovenator
- Identify means “Foster’s hunter”
- Lived within the Late Jurassic within the Morrison Formation of what’s now Wyoming
- Charles Marsh and Arthur Lakes collected the bones in 1879, amongst crocodile tooth, turtle shells, a juvenile Allosaurus and Torvosaurus
- Fosterovenator churei (solely species); named in 2014
- Identify Fosterovenator is a mixture of John R. Foster (a tribute to the American paleontologist) and Venator which implies “hunter”
- Named after John Foster to acknowledge “his contributions to the research of the vertebrate fauna of the Morrison Formation”, in response to the paper “New information on small theropod dinosaurs from the Higher Jurassic Morrison Formation of Como Bluff, Wyoming, USA”
- Churei comes from Daniel J. Churemu (American paleontologist)
- Holotype was discovered at Como Bluff in Wyoming (Reed’s Quarry)
- Holotype features a tibia and ankle bones fused collectively
- Holotype might be a juvenile, which makes it tougher to find out how the dinosaur appeared (in all probability appeared totally different as an grownup)
- The top of the tibia resembles the correct tibia of a small theropod discovered within the Morrison Formation, initially considered Elaphrosaurus (named by Chure in 2001), however in 2008 Carrano and Sampson mentioned it might extra resemble Tendaguru than Elaphrosaurus. However there must be extra full specimens to know for positive
- Fosterovenator is analogous in form to Elaphrosaurus
- Additionally much like Tendaguru
- Too fragmentary to know precisely how massive Fosterovenator was
- A second specimen has a proper fibula of a bigger particular person (fibula is 10.8 in or 27.5 cm lengthy)
- Fosterovenator reveals there might have been extra variety of smaller theropods (which lived amongst Allosaurus, Torvosaurus, Ceratosaurus)
- Fossils of small and juvenile theropods are uncommon within the Morrison Formation (in all probability eaten)
- Most likely hunted small prey, however might have scavenged on bigger animals, similar to sauropods
- Fosterovenator is a ceratosaurid, however extra intently associated to Elaphrosaurus than to Ceratosaurus
- Ceratosauridae is a household of theropods
- Kind genus is Ceratosaurus
- Lived within the Jurassic and Cretaceous
- They lived in North America, Tanzania, Portugal
- Charles Marsh named the household Ceratosauridae for the sort species (1884)
- Two kinds of tooth: one with longitudinal ridges and one with easy enamel
- Most likely competed with allosaurs for meals (the North American ones)
- Enjoyable reality: A T. rex footprint is about 1.55 ft (46 cm) lengthy. However its ft have been for much longer, about 3.3 ft (1 m) lengthy, as a result of T. rex, like different dinosaurs, walked on its toes.