Episode 375 is all about Volkheimeria, a medium to small Early Jurassic sauropod that lived in what’s now Patagonia.
We additionally interview Joshua Mathews and Anne Weerda, Joshua is a PhD candidate at Northern Illinois College, Director of Paleontology, and Vice President of Analysis & Operations on the Burpee Museum. Anne is the Government Director on the Burpee Museum.
Massive due to all our patrons! Your help means a lot to us and retains us going! For those who’re a dinosaur fanatic, be a part of our rising group on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/iknowdino.
You may take heed to our free podcast, with all our episodes, on Apple Podcasts at:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/i-know-dino/id960976813?mt=2
On this episode, we talk about:
Information:
- A revision of Parvicursor exhibits that two different alvarezsaurids, Ceratonykus & Linhenykus, could also be synonyms supply
- A brand new alvarezsaurid, Khulsanurus magnificus, was described from the Gobi Desert in Mongolia supply
- In accordance with a brand new research, dinosaurs in all probability had some coloration on their faces supply
- The World’s most full Triceratops is occurring show on the Melbourne Museum supply
- Cathedral Metropolis, California is getting 11 life-sized dinosaur sculptures alongside freeway 111 supply
- Jurassic World: Dominion is doing crossovers with the Winter Olympics supply
The dinosaur of the day: Volkheimeria
- Eusauropod that lived within the Early Jurassic in what’s now Patagonia, Argentina (Cañadón Asfalto Formation)
- Seems to be like different sauropods, with an extended neck and tail, and a stocky physique, and walked on all fours
- Had low, flat neural spines
- Estimated to be 29.5 ft (9 m) lengthy
- Weighed about the identical as a rhinoceros
- Herbivorous
- Kind and solely species is Volkheimeria chubutensis
- Described in 1979 by José Bonaparte
- Genus identify means “of Volkheimer”
- Named after Wolfgang Volkheimer, a geologist and paleontologist
- Fossils discovered embody a principally full pelvis and sacrum, caudal vertebrae, femur, and tibia
- Discovered near Piatnitzkysaurus and Patagosaurus
- Ilium (a part of the hip) was a lot shorter than that of Patagosaurus
- A 2017 research by Ignacio Alejandro Cerda and others checked out progress charges in sauropods, and based mostly on histology, discovered Volkheimeria had fast, sustained progress charges
- Had carefully spaced progress marks, which works with its comparatively small dimension
- Different dinosaurs that lived across the identical time and place embody the sauropod Patagosaurus, and the megalosauroids Condorraptor and Piatnitzkysaurus
Enjoyable Reality:
Opposite to the favored expression penguins aren’t on the North OR South Pole, however sometimes different dinosaurs attain them.
Sponsors:
Our ebook 50 Dinosaur Tales is out there now! Get the gathering of dinosaur tales and information from current discoveries by going to bit.ly/50dinosaurtales. It’s accessible as an audiobook, book, and paperback.