Episode 361 is all about Fabrosaurus, a really early ornithischian dinosaur that lived in what’s now Lesotho.
We additionally interview Edward Guimont, an assistant professor of world historical past at Bristol Group School who has studied how dinosaurs and different prehistoric animals are linked by myths, legends, colonialism, and cryptozoology. Observe his work on twitter @edward_guimont
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On this episode, we talk about:
Information:
- A brand new web site in Patagonia, Argentina consists of the model new sauropod Menucocelsior supply
- Pops the ceratopsian in Weld County, Colorado may not be a Triceratops in spite of everything supply
- Dickinson Museum Heart’s Badlands Dinosaur Museum in North Dakota is getting a tyrannosaur skeleton supply
- The North Dakota Heritage Heart & State Museum has up to date its juvenile mummified Edmontosaurus specimen supply
- Podokesaurus is one step nearer to turning into the state dinosaur of Massachusetts supply
The dinosaur of the day: Fabrosaurus
- Basal ornithischian dinosaur that lived within the Late Triassic / Early Jurassic in what’s now Lesotho (Elliot Formation)
- Walked on two legs, had a protracted physique and a brief head and quick arms
- Regarded quite a bit like Lesothosaurus (could be the identical)
- Some scientists assume Fabrosaurus specimens characterize particular person variations of Lesothosaurus
- Lesothosaurus was about 3 ft (1 m) lengthy
- Herbivorous
- Kind species is Fabrosaurus australis
- Described in 1964 by Léonard Ginsburg
- Genus identify means “Fabre’s lizard”
- Title in honor of Jean Fabre, a geologist and one among Ginsburg’s colleagues on the expedition the place the discovered the fossil
- Species identify refers back to the fossil being discovered within the southern a part of the Elliot Formation (means “southern” in Latin)
- Holotype was a partial jawbone (mandible) with three enamel
- Extra fossils discovered later, together with two crushed skulls, vertebrae, ribs, and limb bones
- Ginsburg described the holotype as skinny and gracile, and the enamel as straight and triangular in profile
- Mentioned the enamel have been Ornithischian enamel, much like Scelidosaurus harrisonii
- Described as a “dinosaur of a small measurement, with single-rooted enamel possessing lengthy vertical roots”
- Initially mentioned it was a scelidosaurid
- Extra ornithischian fossils later discovered, and later scientists discovered it had too many options in frequent with different species, and Fabrosaurus was a nomen dubium
- Richard Thulborn in 1992 mentioned Fabrosaurus and Lesothosaurus have been synonymous
- Richard Butler in 2005 reviewed ornithischians from the Elliot Formation and mentioned Fabrosaurus was “primarily based upon a single undiagnostic dentary” and thought of it a nomen dubium
Enjoyable Truth:
There are over 50 named species of sauropods in Patagonia alone.
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