Episode 377 is all about Kazaklambia, A lambeosaurine from the Late Cretaceous and essentially the most full hadrosaur present in Kazakhstan.
We additionally interview Roy Plotnick, professor emeritus within the Division of Earth and Environmental Sciences on the College of Illinois at Chicago. He’s additionally a fellow of the Geological Society of America and the Paleontological Society, and creator of the ebook Explorers of Deep Time: Paleontologists and the Historical past of Life.
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The dinosaur of the day: Kazaklambia
- Lambeosaurine that lived within the Late Cretaceous in what’s now Kazakhstan (Dabrazhin Formation)
- Had a cumbersome physique, might stroll on all fours, and had a small, hole crest on the highest of its head
- Femur was about 22 in (56 cm) lengthy
- Humerus was about 13 cm (33 cm) lengthy
- Estimated to weigh 846 lb (384 kg), primarily based on the size of its femur
- One of many earliest identified lambeosaurines
- Kind species is Kazaklambia convincens
- Talked about in episode 350, hadrosaur hootenanny
- Genus title means “Kazakh lambeosaurine”
- Genus title refers to the place it was discovered
- Species title refers back to the “conviction that this specimen proved a Cretaceous age for the Dabrazinskaya Svita”
- Initially described in 1968 as Procheneosaurus convincens by Anatoly Rozhdestvensky
- Additionally referred to Corythosaurus for some time
- Named Kazaklambia in 2013 by Phil Bell and Kirstin Brink
- In 1990 Weishampel and Horner, and in 2004, Horner synonymized it with Jaxartosaurus aralensis
- In 2000 Norman and Sues stated the 2 had sufficient variations and had been discovered in several stratigraphic places, so it made sense to maintain Procheneosaurus convincens as a definite taxon, however they thought it was a questionable dinosaur (and advised it could want a alternative generic title)
- By 2013, Procheneosaurus was not a sound genus, so Procheneosaurus convincens wanted to be redescribed and renamed
- Bell and Brink stated Kazaklambia was totally different sufficient within the dome
- Additionally discovered it to have a unique development trajectory from different juvenile lambeosaurines
- In 2016 Albert Prieto-Márquez and others stated the sort specimen was Kazaklambia
- Fossils present in 1961 by G.A. Belenkiy
- Identified from an almost full juvenile (solely lacking the snout, entrance of the decrease jaws, finish of the tail, some dorsal vertebrae, resulting from erosion)
- Most full hadrosaur present in Kazakhstan
- Mandible (jaw) damaged within the entrance
- Enamel had been poorly preserved
- Had a low, hole nasal crest, just like the Procheneosaurus present in Alberta
- Had a greater developed crest in comparison with North American lambeosaurines
- Attainable the crest developed early in Kazaklambia
- Could also be intently associated to basal lambeosaurines from Asia, resembling Amurosaurus and Tsintaosaurus, and helps present lambeosaurines could have originated in Asia
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