Episode 306 is all about Zephyrosaurus, a small, doubtlessly burrowing, dinosaur from what’s now Montana.
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On this episode, we talk about:
Information:
- Two exceptionally nicely preserved dinosaurs had been discovered fossilized in what was seemingly their very own burrow supply
- A brand new marine dig website was discovered stuffed with Spinosaurus enamel including help for Spinosaurus as an aquatic hunter supply
- Paleontologist Jingmai O’Connor will develop into the affiliate curator of fossil reptiles on the Area Museum in Chicago supply
- There are a few campaigns to boost cash for Mary Anning’s statue in Lyme Regis supply
- In Thailand, one restaurant is filling up empty seats with dinosaurs to encourage social distancing supply
- A brand new sci-fi satire comedian will function a fossil gas firm going again in time to forestall dinosaurs from going extinct supply
- “Dinosaur Hunters” is a brand new 2 hour mashup of motion films and dinosaur films which presumably options looking dinosaurs supply
- Frank Marshall, producer of Jurassic World: Dominion, stated that Dominion won’t be the top of the Jurassic Park franchise supply
The dinosaur of the day: Zephyrosaurus
- Ornithischian that lived within the Cretaceous in what’s now Montana, US (Cloverly Formation)
- Estimated to be 5.9 ft (1.8 m) lengthy
- Small and doubtless quick
- Bipedal and herbivorous
- Had a beak
- Had bosses on its cheeks (massive knob)
- Had 4 toes and had 5 fingers
- Could have burrowed (like Oryctodromeus and Orodromeus)
- Kind species is Zephyrosaurus schaffi
- Named in 1980 by Hans-Dieter Sues
- Genus title means “westward wind lizard”
- Charles R. Schaff discovered the fossils
- Partial cranium and postcranial skeleton discovered, together with jaw fragments, braincase, vertebrae, and components of the rib
- Could also be carefully associated to Orodromeus, based mostly on each having bosses on their cheeks
- Some dino artwork seems form of like a kangaroo (reveals it leaping)
- Extra people present in 2003 by Martha Kutter (at the least 7 people), reported in an summary for SVP
- Dinosaur tracks present in 2004 in Maryland and Virginia (Patuxent Formation) named Hypsiloichnus marylandicus (means “hint of a Hypsilophodon from Maryland”) which are regarded as from a dinosaur much like Zephyrosaurus (or are Zephyrosaurus)
- Tracks discovered by Ray Stanford (first noticed them in 2001)
- Tracks present the dinosaur on all fours, with a smaller entrance foot in entrance of the bigger hind foot (could possibly be resting, consuming, or ingesting)
Enjoyable Truth:
Along with some non-avian dinosaurs, many trendy dinosaurs (birds) burrow as an alternative of nesting in bushes.