Episode 61 is all about Tyrannotitan, a carcharodontosaurid with experimental tooth.
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On this episode, we talk about:
- The dinosaur of the day: Tyrannotitan
- Title means “Tyrant titan”
- Bipedal carnivore that lived within the early Cretaceous, in what’s now Argentina
- Species title is Tyrannotitan chubutensis
- Species title refers back to the Chubut Province, the place the fossils have been discovered
- Described in 2005 by Fernando Novas, Silvina de Valais, Pat Vickers-Wealthy, and Tom Wealthy
- Fragmentary cranium and decrease jaw discovered, in addition to tooth and partial submit cranial skeleton
- Holotype included tooth, again vertebrae, proximal tail vertebrae, ribs, humerus, ulna, almost full femur, fibula, neck vertebrae
- Carefully associated to Carcharondontosaurus and Giganotosaurus, in addition to Mapusaurus
- Together with Acrocanthosaurus, it’s the oldest identified big carcharodontosaurid in North America
- Had small forearms, like a tyrannosaurid, however was not as a result of South America was remoted from North America and Africa on the time Tyrannotitan lived
- Some scientists assume that Tyrannotitan might truly be the identical as one other carcharodontosaurid from South America, however for now it’s thought-about its personal genus
- About 40 ft (12.2 m) lengthy, although Gregory Paul estimated in 2010 it was 43 ft or 13 m lengthy
- Weighed over 6 tons
- Tyrannotitan is completely different from different carcharodontosaurids due to it’s lack of penumaticity (air areas in bones) within the hip and tail vertebrae, so had no air pockets to assist scale back its weight
- Enamel weren’t as developed as different carcharodontosaurids (no clear curves to assist with slicing, however form was just like form of Allosaurus tooth)
- “Chisel-like” denticles on its tooth
- Enamel had denticles with grooves that divided them (denticles helped to tear into flesh); completely different from different tooth of later dinosaurs with curved tooth with serrated edges (might have been experimental)
- Enamel have been good from stripping flesh from useless prey as an alternative of crunching bones
- In Might 2014, it was reported that there was a dinosaur graveyard of giant titanosaurs, together with over 50 Tyrannotitan tooth, on the La Flecha farm in Patagonia, Argentina
- Can see Tyrannotitan within the Museum of Paleontology Egidio Fergulio, in Patagonia, Argentina
- Within the Jurassic World park builder recreation, you possibly can create a Tyrannotitan
- Carcharodontosaurids (title means “shark-toothed lizards) have been carnivorous theropods
- Ernst Stromer named the household in 1931
- Household contains Giganotosaurus, Mapusaurus, Carcharodontosaurus, and Tyrannotitan (all about identical dimension or bigger than T-rex)
- Carcharodontosaurids and spinosaurids have been the most important predators in Gondwana within the early and center Cretaceous
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