Episode 470: Life on Our Planet evaluate and a brand new sleeping alvarezsaurid. We talk about all of the VFX dinosaurs from Netflix’s Life on Our Planet. Plus a remarkably full new chest-clawed alvarezsaurid that fossilized whereas curled up sleeping
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- A brand new alvarezsaurid, Jaculinykus, which is called after a “javelin snake” dragon from Greek mythology supply
- A evaluate of Netflix’s Life on Our Planet, how they made the present, which scientific particulars they acquired proper, and our favourite dinosaur reconstructions
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The dinosaur of the day: Turanoceratops
- Ceratopsian that lived within the Late Cretaceous in what’s now Uzbekistan (Bissekty Formation)
- Small, with a brief frill and two lengthy horns on its forehead, a beak, a long-ish tail, and walked on all fours
- No nasal horn
- Comparatively small, and estimated to be about 6.5 ft (2 m) lengthy and weigh 385 lb (175 kg)
- Most likely ate ferns and conifers and would have used its beak to chunk off leaves and needles
- Not a ceratopsid (which incorporates the subfamilies chasmosaurines and centrosaurines, and contains dinosaurs like Triceratops), however transitional between earlier ceratopsians and ceratopsids
- In comparison with bigger ceratopsids, solely have two or three enamel in every vertical dental file (as a substitute of 4 or 5)
- However did have lengthy forehead horns
- Had double rooted enamel
- Discovered to be extra superior although than Zuniceratops, the earliest recognized horned dinosaur in North America
- Appeared just like Zuniceratops
- Fragmentary fossils discovered beginning within the Nineteen Twenties, and scientists thought there was some type of ceratopsid within the space
- Lev Nessov revealed the title Turanoceratops tardabilis in 1988, however didn’t describe the dinosaur so it was a nomen nudum for some time
- Formally named in 1989 by Nessov and others
- Sort species is Turanoceratops tardabilis
- Genus title means “Turan horned face”
- Turan is an outdated Persian title for Turkestan
- Species title means “slowing” and refers back to the analysis taking a very long time to call the dinosaur
- Holotype is a broken left higher jaw bone
- Holotype was damaged into two tightly becoming items
- Different fossils discovered embody forehead horn cores, elements of the limbs and toes, enamel, a part of the decrease jaw, a part of the cranium
- Different fossils referred to Turanoceratops however turned out to belong to different dinosaurs
- One was a braincase, which belonged to a sauropod
- One other was what was regarded as a part of the frill, however turned out to be armor from an ankylosaur
- Some paleontologists thought of Turanoceratops to be a nomen dubium however Hans Sues in 2009 mentioned it was legitimate
- Different dinosaurs that lived across the identical time and place included the ankylosaur Bissektipelta, theropods corresponding to Caenagnathasia, the alvarezsaur Dzharaonyx, the dromaeosaur Itemirus, the tyrannosauroid Timurlengia, sauropods corresponding to Dzharatitanis, and enantiornithines
- Different animals that lived across the identical time and place included turtles, molluscs, fish, plesiosaurs, mammals, pterosaurs, lizards, crocodylomorphs, and amphibians
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