Episode 313 is all about Borealosaurus, a titanosaur from China with uncommon tail vertebrae.
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- A overview of caenagnathids from the Dinosaur Park Formation resulted in a brand new genus named Citipes supply
- The Dueling Dinosaurs are occurring show on the North Carolina Museum of Pure Sciences. supply
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The dinosaur of the day: Borealosaurus
- Titanosaur sauropod that lived within the Late Cretaceous in what’s now China (Sunjiawan Formation, Liaoning Province)
- Herbivorous
- Estimated 39 ft (12 m) lengthy and weighed 10 tonnes
- Discovered fragmentary stays
- Holotype is an opisthocoelous mid-distal caudal vertebrae, centra with convex articulation on the entrance and concave on the again
- Referred specimens embody a peg-like tooth crown, a center caudal, and principally full, strong humerus (not clear if these fossils are a part of the holotype and even one another)
- Kind species is Borealosaurus wimani
- Described and named in 2004 by Hailu You and others
- Genus identify means “North Wind lizard”
- Title refers back to the reality it was present in northern China
- Species identify is in honor of paleontologist Carl Wiman, who named the primary Chinese language dinosaur, Euhelopus, in 1929 (at first named Helpous however that identify was in use, so he renamed it Euhelopus. Nevertheless in the identical paper he additionally named Tanius)
- Fossils had been collected between 1999 and 2002 close to Shuangmiao village
- Titanosaurs often have procoelous caudals (reverse of opisthocoelous) however the titanosaur Opisthocoelicaudia (named in 1977) additionally had opisthocoelous vertebrae, so Borealosaurus could have been carefully associated
- Different sauropods have been discovered to have some extent of this attribute (Fukuititan, Nemegtosaurus, Rinconsaurus, Sonidosaurus)
- Nevertheless, Borealosaurus in all probability must be studied extra, since some scientists don’t suppose it was a titanosaur and others suppose it was a basal titanosaur (want extra fossils)
- Different dinosaurs that lived across the identical time and place included ankylosaurs (Crichtonpelta) and iguanodonts (Shuangmiaosaurus)
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