Episode 339 is all about Kryptops, an abelisaurid which can have had a keratin overlaying on its snout that might be helpful for scavenging.
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The dinosaur of the day: Kryptops
- Abelisaurid that lived within the Early Cretaceous in what’s now Niger (Elrhaz Formation)
- Seems to be like different abelisaurids, bipedal, giant head, quick arms
- Estimated to be 19 to 23 ft (6 to 7 m) lengthy
- Had tall vertebral spines
- Carnivorous
- Had a brief snout
- Jaws lined in armor
- Floor of the maxilla was closely textured (rugose)
- Had pits and impressions of blood vessels on the maxilla, which reveals there was some type of overlaying connected to the face, possibly keratin (therefore the genus title)
- Had small enamel
- Maxilla estimated to be about 10 in (25 cm) lengthy
- Had about 17 or 18 maxillary enamel
- Most likely a scavenger
- Steve Brusatte stated in Science Day by day: “A quick, two-legged hyena gnawing and pulling aside a carcass is how we would greatest think about Kryptops’ eating habits”
- In a Reuters article, Paul Sereno stated: “The thought was that the animal was sticking its head into carcasses”
- Sereno additionally stated: “We expect the face was lined with a bill-like materials. It might have regarded just about just like the invoice of a fowl”
- Sort species is Kryptops palaios
- Just one specimen discovered
- Described in 2008 by Paul Sereno and Stephen Brusatte
- Genus title means “lined face” in Greek
- Species title “palaios” means “outdated” in Greek
- Fossils present in 2000 on an expedition led by Paul Sereno
- Partial skeleton discovered within the western Ténéré Desert
- Holotype is an grownup and features a maxilla, vertebrae, ribs, pelvic girdle and sacrum
- Oldest abelisaurid present in Africa, and the oldest indeniable abelisaurid on this planet
- Sereno and Brusatte thought of Kryptops to be a basal abelisaurid
- In 2021, Matthew Carrano and others discovered it to be a chimera, and steered that the postcranial fossils (significantly the pelvis and sacrum, which have been discovered articulated) have been discovered 15 m away from the maxilla, and that these postcranial fossils truly belonged to a carcharodontosaurid, reminiscent of Eocarcharia, which was discovered close by in the identical formation and named in the identical 2008 paper)
- Kryptops, with Eocarcharia, assist present an earlier stage of abelisaurids and carcharodontosaurids in Gondwana
- The spinosaurid Suchomimus, the sauropod Nigersaurus, the ornithopods Ouranosaurus and Lurdusaurus, and the crocodilian Sarcosuchus additionally lived across the identical time and place (a number of giant predators)
Enjoyable Truth:
T. rex is usually thought of the biggest, strongest, and longest lived theropod. However it simply misplaced the lifespan document to a carcharodontosaurid from Argentina.
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