Episode 337 is all about Eotriceratops, a big three-horned dinosaur that developed roughly a million years earlier than Triceratops.
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On this episode, we talk about:
Information:
- T. rex most likely walked about as quick as people supply
- 25 new fossils of attainable titanosaurs have been present in northeast India supply
- There’s a fundraiser to assist a 9 yr previous with most cancers make a journey to Dinosaur Nationwide Monument supply
- The Mace Brown Museum of Pure Historical past in South Carolina has a brand new dinosaur tracks exhibit supply
- The disclosing of a brand new Allosaurus skeleton on the Zhengjia Museum of Pure Science was accompanied by a “dinosaur consuming occasion” supply
- A brand new recreation titled Second Extinction has people attempting to reclaim Earth after mutated dinosaurs take over supply
- A Resident Evil Village mod has made Barney the Dinosaur an enemy supply
The dinosaur of the day: Eotriceratops
- Chasmosaurine ceratopsian that lived within the Late Cretaceous in what’s now Alberta, Canada (Dry Island, Horseshoe Canyon Formation)
- Seems to be loads like Triceratops, with the 2 massive forehead horns and a small nasal horn, a frill, and a beak
- One of many largest ceratopsians. Different massive ceratopsians embody Triceratops horridus and the ichnogenus Ceratopsipes
- Estimated to be about 29.5 ft (9 m) lengthy
- Gregory Paul estimated it to be 27.8 ft (8.5 m) lengthy and weigh 10 tonnes
- Holotype cranium estimated to be about 9.8 ft (3 m) lengthy
- Herbivorous
- Had a comparatively flat, lengthy snout
- Rostral is massive and from the aspect, appears to be like considerably boomerang-shaped
- 35 tooth rows preserved within the maxilla
- Distinctive options within the premaxilla, nasal horn core, squamosal frill, and epijugal
- Had lengthy, crescent or spindle formed epoccipitals on the squamosal frill (bones lining the underside of the frill)
- Had a sharply conical epijugal (on the cheek)
- Had a low nasal horn that was barely recurved
- Nasal horn core was longer than it was vast
- Horns above the eyes curved ahead, and have been about 2.6 ft (80 cm) lengthy
- Three chunk marks above the attention, close to the bottom of the left horn (might be from scavengers)
- Kind and solely species is Eotriceratops xerinsularis
- Genus title means “daybreak three-horned face”
- Shut relative of Triceratops, Nedoceratops, Torosaurus (Eotriceratops, when named, discovered to be the oldest identified member of this group, therefore the title “daybreak”)
- Species title means “of the dry island”, and refers to Dry Island Buffalo Bounce Provincial Park, the place the specimen was discovered
- Fossils present in 1910 by Barnum Brown, throughout an AMNH expedition
- However Brown on the time was extra within the Albertosaurus skeletons in the identical location, so didn’t do something with the discover
- In 2001, a workforce from the Royal Tyrrell and Canadian Museum of Nature went on an expedition to Dry Island. However they didn’t find out about what Barnum Brown had discovered. Glen Guthrie, the camp prepare dinner of the workforce, rediscovered the skeleton by chance
- Described and named in 2007 by Xiao-Chun Wu, Donald Brinkman, David Eberth, and Dennis Braman
- First identifiable dinosaur discovered within the higher 65 ft (20 m) of the Horseshoe Canyon Formation
- Present in carbonaceous shale
- No duplicate bones discovered, so interpreted to all belong to at least one specimen
- Holotype is RTMP 2002.57.5, and is a partial skeleton with a cranium (no decrease jaws). Skeleton consists of neck and again vertebrae, ribs, and ossified tendons, and cranium consists of components of the frill sides, massive horns above the eyes, horn above the nostril
- Left premaxilla was extra full than the proper
- Bones (particularly cranium) have been disarticulated, and a few of them badly crushed
- Braincase was badly crushed
- Gregory Paul renamed Eotriceratops to Triceratops in 2010 however others didn’t agree
- Extra potential specimens present in New Mexico, however have been categorised as Ojoceratops fowleri and Torosaurus utahensis
Enjoyable Reality:
There may be a variety of dietary content material in bones, so T. rex may need had entry to a meals supply that almost all vertebrates can’t handle.
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