Episode 496: Three new dinosaurs together with a brand new Carnotaurus rival. Koleken lived with Carnotaurus, however so far as we all know it didn’t have horns. Plus a brand new Masiakasaurus relative Kiyacursor and a brand new titanosaur named Tiamat which can have had osteoderms.
Information:
- A brand new shut relative of Carnotaurus, named Koleken, was simply described supply
- There’s a brand new noasaurid theropod, Kiyacursor longipes supply
- There’s a brand new titanosaur, Tiamat valdecii supply
Sponsor:
This episode is delivered to you by Rosetta Stone – The all-in-one language app. With Rosetta Stone, you’ll have every thing it’s essential study a language and use it in the true world. They provide immersive classes, writing prompts, and fascinating actions to arrange you for actual life conversations. You may choose and select the teachings that work greatest for you and create a customized expertise that’s each enjoyable and fascinating. Prepare for all times’s adventures with over 50% off for I Know Dino listeners at RosettaStone.com/dino
The dinosaur of the day: Mahakala
- Small halszkaraptorine dromaeosaurid theropod dinosaur that lived within the Late Cretaceous in what’s now the Gobi Desert in Mongolia (Djadokhta Formation)
- Means it’s a semi-aquatic raptor
- Had giant claws on its second toes, like different dromaeosaurids/raptors
- Small, estimated to be about 50 to 70 cm (20 to twenty-eight in) lengthy and weigh 400 to 700 g (14 to 25 oz)
- Appeared form of like a goose, with a small head and beak, and lengthy neck, however had an extended tail and far greater ft with giant sickle claws on them
- Had very brief arms
- Kind and solely species is Mahakala omnogovae
- Named in 2007 by Turner and others
- Discovered a partial skeleton of an almost absolutely grown grownup with cranium bones, vertebrae, elements of the limbs, and elements of the pelvis and shoulder
- Discovered a nicely preserved partial cranium and almost full skeleton
- Discovered 20 preserved tail bones
- As a halszkaraptorine, could have been an excellent swimmer
- Had options seen in early troodontids and avialans (birds)
- Had brief arms (humerus is 50% the femur size)
- Most troodontids had comparatively brief arms
- Being a basal dromaeosaurid, means it’s essential for determining the ancestral measurement of dromaeosaurs
- Being small could assist present that dinosaurs bought smaller earlier than they might fly (and that the ancestors of birds have been small and pre-adapted for flight)
- Earlier than, scientists thought miniaturization was solely within the earliest birds, and that led to flight
- Although dromaeosaurids didn’t uniformly shrink over time, and in some circumstances they bought bigger
- Must be studied extra to higher perceive what the limb proportions imply
- Genus title is for Mahakala, one in every of eight protector deities in Tibetan Buddhism
- Species title is for Ömnögovi, a province in Mongolia
- Fossils present in 1992 throughout a joint American Museum of Pure Historical past and Mongolian Academy of Sciences expedition
- Third dromaeosaurid reported from the Djadokhta Formation (probably fourth relying on the validity of Velociraptor osmolskae, which was named in 2008 however paleontologists say must be reassessed)
- Lived in a semiarid local weather, with sand dunes and plains
- Typically had mud and sandstorms
- Different dinosaurs that lived across the similar time and place embrace Velociraptor, troodontids comparable to Byronosaurus and Saurornithoides, oviraptors comparable to Citipati, Khaan, and Oviraptor, alvarezsaurids comparable to Kol and Shuvuuia, ceratopsians comparable to Protoceratops and Udanoceratops, hadrosaurs comparable to Plesiohadros, and ankylosaurs comparable to Pinacosaurus
- Different animals that lived across the similar time and place embrace turtles, crocodilians, lizards, and mammals
Enjoyable Reality:
There are not less than 3 “dinosaur days”: Worldwide Dinosaur Day on the third Tuesday in Could; Nationwide Dinosaur Day on June 1st; and Australia’s Nationwide Dinosaur Day on Could seventh.
Thanks Patrons!
Your assist means a lot to us and retains us going! In the event you’re a dinosaur fanatic, be a part of our rising neighborhood on Patreon at patreon.com/iknowdino