Episode 371 is all about Probactrosaurus, a hadrosauroid that lived within the Late Cretaceous in what’s now Inside Mongolia, China.
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On this episode, we talk about:
Information:
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- A brand new Deinonychus-sized raptor, Vectiraptor greeni, was discovered on the Isle of Wight supply
- Marvel’s Moon Woman and Satan Dinosaur animated collection has a brand new trailer supply
- A brand new photograph from Jurassic World: Dominion exhibits Owen Grady taming a Parasaurolophus within the snow supply
The dinosaur of the day: Probactrosaurus
- Hadrosauroid that lived within the Late Cretaceous in what’s now Inside Mongolia, China (Dashuigou Formation)
- Seems to be like a typical hadrosaur, with a duckbill and hulking physique
- Medium-sized and gracile
- Estimated to be 18 ft (5.5 m) lengthy and weigh 1 tonne
- Herbivorous
- Had a slim snout, and elongated jaw
- Had tooth batteries
- No crest on the cranium
- Had lengthy, slender arms and arms and a small thumb spike
- In all probability largely walked on 4 legs
- Fossils present in 1959 and 1960 throughout a Russian-Chinese language expedition
- Holotype is a partial skeleton with a cranium
- One other partial skeleton and fragments have been additionally discovered
- Described in 1966 by Anatoly Konstantinovich Rozhdestvensky
- Sort species is Probactrosaurus gobiensis
- Genus identify means “earlier than Bactrosaurus”
- Genus named refers back to the speculation that Probactrosaurus was a direct ancestor of Bactrosaurus (scientists don’t suppose that anymore)
- Species identify refers back to the Gobi desert
- Rozhdestvensky named a second species, Probactrosaurus alashanicus, primarily based on fragments, in 1966 primarily based on the again of a cranium
- Species identify refers back to the Alxa League (on the western a part of Inside Mongolia)
- In 2002, David Norman revised Probactrosaurus. He mentioned the holotype of Probactrosaurus alashanicus was misplaced and that it was a synonym of Probactrosaurus gobiensis
- Lü Junchang named Probactrosaurus mazongshanensis in 1997, primarily based on fossils present in 1992 (a partial cranium and skeleton)
- Species identify refers back to the Mazong Shan area
- Later it was formally described and renamed as Gongpoquansaurus
- Probactrosaurus could also be carefully associated to Siamodon, an iguanodontian present in Thailand, however they’ve totally different numbers of tooth positions
Enjoyable Reality:
It’s unlikely that dinosaurs had venom, however a few of them might have been poisonous.
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