Episode 425: Microraptor ate mammals. Plus a brand new titanosaur, a brand new Dryptosaurus discover, Sabrina connects dinosaurs to princess seams, and far more
Information:
- There’s a brand new titanosaur: Caieira allocaudata supply
- A brand new Dryptosaurus discover could embody medullary bone—displaying one other probably feminine tyrannosauroid supply
- A mammal’s foot was discovered inside a Microraptor’s ribcage displaying that the mammal was eaten by the dinosaur supply
- Dippy has a three-year residency at Coventry’s Herbert Artwork Gallery and Museum supply
- A brand new dinosaur movie, 65, comes out in March supply
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The dinosaur of the day: Isanosaurus
- Sauropodomorph that lived within the Late Triassic or Late Jurassic in what’s now Thailand (Nam Phong Formation)
- Estimated to be about 21 ft (6.5 m) lengthy based mostly on the thigh bone
- However, components of the holotype skeleton weren’t fused, so the holotype could not have been absolutely grown
- Had excessive neural spines
- Kind and solely species is Isanosaurus attavipachi
- Named in 2000 by Éric Buffetaut and others
- Genus title means “north-eastern Thailand lizard” (Isan lizard)
- Isan is the native title for northeastern Thailand
- Species title is in honor of P. Attavipach, former Director Common of the Thai Division of Mineral Assets and a supporter of paleontological analysis
- Fossils present in 1998
- Discovered by a hunter on the lookout for nocturnal flying squirrels who noticed the fossils within the moonlight
- Fossils had been in darkish purple sandstone, and a lot of the bones had eroded by the point they had been discovered
- Holotype features a neck vertebra, again vertebra, components of the tail, fragmentary ribs, a part of the shoulder and thigh
- On the time, was the earliest recognized sauropod dinosaur
- Initially thought to have lived about 210 million years in the past
- However in 2009, Racey and Goodall dated Isanosaurus from the Early Jurassic
- One of many earliest sauropodomorphs to stroll on all fours (obligate quadrupedal)
- Had a sturdy femur, “with a sauropod-like straight, craniocaudally flattened shaft” (had a sturdy, straight thigh bone)
- Means it had column-like legs, and walked on all fours
- In bipedal sauropodomorphs, the leg bone is curved
- Had sauropod options but in addition primitive options that “appear as an instance an early stage within the evolution of characters extra absolutely developed in later, extra superior sauropods”
- Seemed like a typical sauropod, with a cumbersome physique, lengthy neck, lengthy tail, walked on 4 legs (however lived fairly early)
Enjoyable Reality:
There are solely 5 US states that don’t have state fossils. Iowa, New Hampshire, Hawaii, & Rhode Island. Nobody has claimed Tyrannosaurus rex but.
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