Episode 283 is all about Staurikosaurus, a small Triassic carnivore from what’s now Brazil.
Interview with Phil Tippett, the founder and Chief Artistic Officer of Tippett Studio. He’s a two-time Oscar and Emmy award winner for his visible results work, for the films Jurassic Park and Return of the Jedi and the documentary Dinosaur! and the TV movie Caravan of Braveness: An Ewok Journey. His most up-to-date challenge is the cease movement movie Mad God. Observe him on Instagram @TippettStudio.
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On this episode, we focus on:
Information:
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The dinosaur of the day: Staurikosaurus
- Herrerasaurid that lived within the Late Triassic in what’s now Brazil (Santa Maria Formation)
- Small and possibly quick, and bipedal carnivore
- Had lengthy, slender limb bones
- Tibia longer than the femur
- Had robust hindlimbs and small forelimbs
- Estimated to be 7.5 ft (2.25 m) lengthy and weigh 66 lb (30 kg)
- Had an extended, stiff tail (about 4.4 ft or 1.3 m), could have helped it run and bounce
- Not many fossils discovered, reconstructions are typically based mostly on it having some primitive options (so usually proven as having 5 toes and 5 fingers)
- Had solely two sacral vertebrae, which is a really primitive function
- Had hole limb bones with thick partitions
- Jawbone virtually so long as the femur, so most likely had a big head
- Possibly had a sliding joint within the jaw so it might transfer forwards and backwards, and up and down, however a redescription of the holotype in 2011 discovered that the intramandibular joint and some different traits, couldn’t be confirmed due to both poor preservation or not accessible within the materials
- In all probability ate small and medium-sized vertebrates
- Had serrated tooth that curved again
- Might have been capable of catch and maintain its prey, and slice and tear flesh
- Kind species is Staurikosaurus pricei
- Described and named by Edwin Colbert in 1970
- Genus title means “southern cross lizard”
- Named after the southern cross star constellation, which is within the coat of arms of Brazil and you may see within the Southern Hemisphere
- On the time, not many dinosaurs had been discovered within the Southern Hemisphere
- Species title in honor of paleontologist Llewellyn Ivor Value
- Value discovered the fossils as a part of an expedition in 1936 from Harvard College’s Museum of Comparative Zoology, together with Theodore White
- Fossils discovered within the Santa Maria Formation, Rio Grande do Sul, in southern Brazil
- Discovered a decrease jaw and partial skeleton, together with vertebrae, rib fragments, femora, tibiae, fibulae, some tooth fragments, and extra
- Cranium is lacking, however decrease jaw is fairly full
- One of many earliest dinosaurs, round 225 million years in the past
- Intently associated to Herrerasaurus
- Teyuwasu barbernai referred to Staurikosaurus as a synonym, by Garcia and others in 2019 (Teyuwasu named in 1999 based mostly on a proper femur and tibia, and in response to the authors its anatomy was similar to Staurikosaurus)
- Brazil’s Nationwide Museum had a reconstruction of Staurikosaurus, however the museum burned down in September 2018
- Skeleton on show at Harvard College’s Museum of Comparative Zoology
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