Episode 386: Triceratops and Tyrannosaurus infighting. Plus a brand new Tyrannosaurus occurring show in New Zealand; What lined the neck spines on Amargasaurus; And much more sauropod information
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Information:
- Researchers discovered that Massive John, the Triceratops horridus, was injured by one other ceratopsian supply
- A brand new T. rex specimen was described and is happening show on the Auckland Museum in New Zealand supply
- Amargasaurus might have had extra of a sail on its neck as an alternative of tall spines supply
- Scientists studied a sauropodomorph from the start of the Late Triassic and located it was already comparatively giant supply
- Scientists analyzed and redescribed Patagosaurus fariasi supply
- Researchers discovered an air sac system in an grownup saltasaurid titanosaur that lived within the Late Cretaceous in what’s now Brazil supply
- The W.T. Bland Public Library in Mount Dora, Florida has a Nothronychus on show supply
- The SODO district of Seattle, Washington now has Dinos Alive Exhibition: An Immersive Expertise supply
- David Attenborough’s Dinosaurs: The Closing Day, is airing within the U.S. on Might 11 supply
- The casts of Jurassic Park and Jurassic World mirrored on Jurassic Park and the way Dominion ties in into the franchise supply
- A brand new picture reveals Ellie Sattler (Laura Dern) with a child Nasutoceratops supply
- In Jurassic World: Dominion Giganotosaurus is supposed to really feel just like the Joker from the Darkish Knight supply
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The dinosaur of the day: Euskelosaurus
- Plateosaurid sauropodomorph that lived within the Late Triassic/Early Jurassic in what’s now South Africa and Lesotho (Elliot Formation) and Zimbabwe (Mpandi Formation)
- Regarded like different sauropodomorphs, with a protracted neck and tail, lengthy arms, lengthy claws, a small head, and possibly walked on two legs
- Giant and sturdy
- Estimated to be about 33 ft (10 m) lengthy
- Sort species is Euskelosaurus brownii
- Fossils present in 1863 by Alfred Brown (limb bones and vertebrae)
- Described in 1866 by Thomas Huxley
- Genus identify means “good leg lizard”
- Species identify is in honor of Alfred Brown
- Heerden in 1979 steered Euskelosaurus was extra bow legged, based mostly on the best way its femur was twisted
- One other specimen with a cranium was present in 1994 within the Elliot Formation; revealed about it in 2000
- Specimen on the time might have been one of many oldest recognized dinosaurs
- Discovered Euskelosaurus to be extra basal than the sauropodomorph Riojasaurus, one of many earliest sauropodomorphs, as a result of the neck was not fairly as lengthy and the braincase was barely extra primitive
- Juvenile Euskelosaurus fossils have been discovered between 1995 and 1997 (revealed about in 2001) within the Elliot Formation
- Fossils included juveniles and adults
- Fossils have been in a bone mattress, and thought to have been killed by flash floods
- Primarily based on the scale of the juveniles (23 to 49 in or 58 to 125 cm lengthy), they have been in all probability “precocious juveniles [that] might forage with their moms”
- Some scientists have prior to now thought of Euskelosaurus to be a waste-basket taxon
- At one level, Plateosauravus was thought of to be Euskelosaurus
- Plateosaurus cullingworthi was named in 1924 by Sidney Haughton
- Species identify in honor of T.L. Cullingworth, who collected the fossils
- In 1932, Friedrich von Huene renamed it as its personal genus, Plateosauravus
- Genus identify means “grandfather of Plateosaurus”
- In 1979 Jacques van Heerden reassigned it to Euskelosaurus
- Then Adam Yates later steered utilizing Plateosauravus
- Different dinosaurs that lived across the identical time and place embody the sauropodomorphs Blikanasaurus, Plateosauravus, Melanorosaurus, and Meroktenos
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