Episode 340 is all about Amygdalodon, the primary sauropod ever described in Argentina.
We additionally interview Nussaïbah Raja-Schoob and Emma Dunne. Collectively Emma (@emmadnn) and Nussaïbah (@mauritiantales) discovered a disconnect in the place fossils have been found and the place the researchers have been from. They have been not too long ago interviewed by the New York Instances about decolonizing paleontology. Comply with their work at paleoscientometrics.github.io
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On this episode, we focus on:
Information:
- A brand new hadrosaur, Tlatolophus galorum, has a Parasaurolophus-like crest supply
- A person in Spain handed away after getting caught in a Stegosaurus statue supply
- The corporate Blue Origin not too long ago despatched some dinosaur fossils into area supply
- Eromanga Pure Historical past Museum in Queensland, Australia simply opened their new reception and occasional store supply
- The T. Rex Discovery Centre is open once more in Eastend, Saskatchewan, Canada supply
- Liberty Science Middle has the SUE: The T. rex Expertise exhibit in Jersey Metropolis, New Jersey supply
- The Austrian Mint has a brand new glow at midnight coin that includes Deinonychus combating Xenoceratops supply
- A sauropod sculpture of over 6,000 corks named “Winasaur” was inbuilt North Fork, New York supply
- The mysterious sculptor who has been making dinosaurs out of twigs, twine, and bone in New Jersey has been revealed supply
- A South Carolina man pranked his good friend by having strangers go away “dinosaur roars” in his voicemail supply
The dinosaur of the day: Amygdalodon
- Basal sauropod that lived within the Center Jurassic in what’s now Chubut Province, Argentina (Cerro Carnerero Formation)
- Seems like different sauropods, walks on 4 legs and had a protracted neck and lengthy tail
- Not a lot identified, however one of many few dinosaurs from the Jurassic present in South America, to this point
- Estimated to be 39 ft (12 m) lengthy and weigh greater than 5 tonnes
- Had almond formed tooth
- Enamel on tooth had a wrinkled sample
- Cabrera described the tooth as similar to Brontosaurus tooth, however narrower and about 50% bigger (although he stated Amygdalodon was a lot smaller than Brontosaurus, so proportionally its tooth have been stronger)
- One of many tooth was discovered implanted within the alveolus
- Kind species is Amygdalodon patagonicus
- Genus title means “almond tooth”
- Fossils present in 1936 (earlier than, no sauropod fossils had been present in Argentina)
- Holotype contains vertebrae, ribs, 4 full tooth, three partial tooth, partial pelvis and shoulder-blade
- Described by Ángel Cabrera, head of the Division of Vertebrate Paleontology on the Museo de La Plata, in 1947
- Alejandro Piatnitzky had talked about in 1936 “bones of a saurian of at least 5-7m lengthy” in deposits in Chubut, and in 1947 Dr. Tómas Suero confirmed the fossils and excavated them
- Fossils have been discovered “in a mattress of sandy tuff and bluish grey clay”
- Rodolfo Casamiquela redescribed Amygdalodon in 1963 and located that fossils Suero discovered in addition to different fossils beforehand discovered by Piatnitzky belonged to Amygdalodon
- In 2003, Oliver Rauhut revised Amygdalodon and located that the fossils described belonged to not less than two people, and that a few of these fossils might belong to a distinct species (although they might additionally present totally different ages of the identical species). Made an anterior dorsal vertebra the lectotype, and stated solely three vertebrae have been positively Amygdalodon (additionally the tooth?), and the remainder have been indeterminate Eusauropod materials
Enjoyable Reality:
The massive head crests on Parasaurolophus & Tlatolophus are fashioned by a massively prolonged premaxilla throughout the highest of their heads.
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