Episode 362 is all about Amurosaurus, a lambeosaurine hadrosaur that lived within the Late Cretaceous in what’s now Russia.
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On this episode, we focus on:
Information:
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- Three dinosaur statues had been stolen from Dinosaur Park and located broken at a frat get together on the College of Texas Austin supply
- Jack Horner and paleoartist Fabio Pastori are promoting a set of 100 NFTs to lift cash for paleontological analysis supply
The dinosaur of the day: Amurosaurus
- Lambeosaurine hadrosaur that lived within the Late Cretaceous in what’s now Russia (Udurchukan Formation)
- Regarded just like Corythosaurus, cumbersome construct, duckbill, sturdy legs
- Principally walked on two legs (facultative biped)
- Estimated to be 20 ft (6 m) lengthy
- Gregory Paul estimated 26 ft (8 m) lengthy and weighed 6,600 lb (3,000 kg)
- In all probability had a hole crest on its head (however crest has not been discovered)
- Herbivorous
- Had a dental battery
- Maxillary enamel had been “slender, diamond-shaped, completely straight, and symmetrical”
- Had an enormous coracoid (a part of the shoulder)
- Had a strong ulna (a part of the forearm)
- Had a gracile radius (different a part of the forearm)
- Had a strong femur
- Had elongated pencil-shaped metacarpals (within the palms) and strong metatarsals (within the toes)
- Sort and solely species is Amurosaurus riabinini
- Described in 1991 by Yuri Bolotsky and Sergei Kurzanov
- Genus title means “Amur lizard”
- Genus title comes from the Amur River, close to the place Amurosaurus was discovered (known as Heilongjiang or “Black Dragon River” in Mandarin), is the border of Russia and China
- Species title in honor of paleontologist Anatoly Riabinin
- Fossils all present in one bonebed that was found in 1984
- Temporary historical past of the world:
- In 1902 Colonel Manakin collected the primary dinosaur bones (remoted bones) from Cossack fisherman close to the Amur River on the Chinese language facet of the river
- Within the summers of 1916 and 1917 the Geological Committee of Russia excavated the world. In 1925 and 1930 Riabinin mentioned the hadrosaur bones had been considerable within the space, and he named two: Trachodon amurense and Saurolophus krystofovici (now each thought-about to be nomina dubia–too fragmentary and no distinctive options)
- In 1957 Rozhdestvensky first talked about dinosaur fossils from the Russian a part of the Amur area
- In 1984 Yuri Bolotsky and the Amur Advanced Built-in Analysis Institute of the Far Jap Department of the Russian Academy of Sciences discovered a big bonebed within the space
- Solely 200 sq. meters had been excavated as of 1991, and a number of other hundred bones had been discovered, principally from lambeosaurines (90% belonged to Amurosaurus, principally juveniles)
- The remainder are hadrosaurines like Kerberosaurus. Additionally discovered turtle fragments and theropod enamel and lots of toothmarks on the bones (predators or scavengers)
- In 1991 Bolotsky and Kurzanov described a few of the lambeosaurine fossils as Amurosaurus riabinini
- Greater than 90% of the bones discovered are from lambeosaurines, however the “skeletons are full disarticulated and combined”
- Primarily based on the skeletons being combined up and the best way the lengthy bones had been oriented, the bones had been most likely deposited in a river or floodplain form of atmosphere. However as a result of the bones are so effectively preserved, together with fragile cranium items, they most likely weren’t transported over an extended distance
- The random manner the bones had been oriented could imply they had been out of the blue stopped in being transported earlier than fossilizing
- Solely the holotype cranium items and a few vertebrae are recognized to be from the identical particular person
- Holotype is a left maxilla (higher jaw bone) and dentary (decrease jaw bone)
- Holotype cranium has sutures
- However, so many bones discovered within the bonebeds, can assemble a lot of the cranium and skeleton
- Many distinctive options within the cranium, and the form of the decrease arm bone (ulna)
- Had bones on the roof of the cranium that appeared to assist a crest
- In 2004, Pascal Godefroit and others re-described Amurosaurus
- Stated that primarily based on lambeosaurini (Lambeosaurus, Corythosaurus, Nipponosaurus, and so on.) and parasaurolophini (Parasaurolophus, Charonosaurus) dinosaurs being present in North America and Asia, appears there was a variety of migration between Asia and North America, nevertheless it’s not at all times clear which manner they went (east to west or west to east)
- However, all recognized basal lambeosaurines are from Asia, so appears lambeosaurines originated in Asia
- In 2011, Pascal Godefroit and others wrote about latest advances on the research of hadrosaurid dinosaurs in Heilongjiang
- Discovered that lower than 2% of the bones excavated from the Amurosaurus bonebed had potential tooth marks, so scavenging was both restricted or there was a lot meals for scavengers they didn’t need to scrape on the bones
- Primarily based on the scale and frequency of femurs, tibiae, humeri, and dentaries, there are principally late juveniles and subadult Amurosaurus. Potential that youthful Amurosaurus lived separated from adults and rejoined the herd after they had been extra grown
- Most people are small to medium-sized, however some remoted bones recommend Amurosaurus may get massive, perhaps even bigger than Shantungosaurus giganteus (as much as 48 ft or 14.7 m lengthy)
- Amurosaurus lived in “savannah-like valleys with oasis vegetation alongside the banks of lakes and river” in a heat and comparatively arid local weather
- Can see an AR view of Amurosaurus with Google’s Arts and Tradition’s Meet an Historical Animal function
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