Episode 273 is all about Ekrixinatosaurus, the “explosion born” abelisaurid from Argentina.
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The dinosaur of the day: Ekrixinatosaurus
- Abelisaurid theropod that lived within the Late Cretaceous in what’s now Argentina (Candeleros Formation)
- Estimated to be about 23-26 ft (7-8 m) lengthy (most likely a bit of smaller than Carnotaurus)
- Sturdy
- Had proportionally brief hindlimbs
- Might maintain a number of accidents from preventing
- Had a big head and cranium
- Cranium was boxy and brief and deep
- Had a comparatively excessive cranium, much like Skorpiovenator
- Jaw curved upwards
- Had small holes and spikes within the facial bones, particularly the nasal bones
- Most likely had a wrinkled, probably keratinous pores and skin that lined the bones
- Had some brief tooth
- Just one species: Ekrixinatosaurus novasi
- Genus identify means “explosion born reptile”
- Fossils discovered as a consequence of a fuel pipeline being constructed
- Named as a result of the fossil “was found after its rocky tomb was dynamited”
- Species identify in honor of Dr. Fernando Novas, for his contributions to finding out abelisaurids
- Described in 2004 by Jorge Calvo, David Rubilar-Rogers, and Karen Moreno
- Holotype consists of dentaries, left and partial proper maxillae, tooth, vertebrae, ribs, ilia, elements of the femur and tibia, and extra
- Helped fill in gaps about abelisaur anatomy
- Lived amongst carcharodontosaurids, which have been greater, however not clear if they’d totally different ecological niches (looking versus scavenging)
- Different dinosaurs that lived in the identical time and place included the titanosaur Andesaurus, different sauropods like Limaysaurus and Nopcsaspondylus, iguanodonts, the carcharodontosaurid Giganotosaurus, the dromaeosaurid Buitreraptor, alvarezsauri Alnashetri, the coelurosaur Bicentenaria
- Different animals included snakes, crocodiles, fish, turtle, frogs, mammals, pterosaurs
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