Episode 497: Learn how to Inform a Tyrannosauroid from a Ceratosaur and a Maniraptoran. We discover the variations between the important thing teams of theropods. Plus an incredible new Psittacosaurus discover; The brand new Allosaurus sort specimen is official; And new methods verify one other predator that lived alongside Spinosaurus.
Information:
- A brand new distinctive Psittacosaurus has each reptile like scaly pores and skin and chook like feather-covered pores and skin supply
- Allosaurus has a brand new sort specimen (the Smithsonian’s skeleton) supply
- Combining a number of methods to check remoted enamel, paleontologists discovered 4 several types of theropods within the Kem Kem Beds in Morocco, together with a uncommon noasaurid supply
Listener Query:
The key teams of theropods and their distinctive traits
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The dinosaur of the day: Cruxicheiros
- Tetanuran theropod dinosaur that lived within the Center Jurassic in what’s now Warwickshire, England (Chipping Norton Limestone Formation)
- Tetanurans are intently associated to fashionable birds. It’s an enormous clade that features most theropods, together with Megalosaurus, Tyrannosaurus, and Spinosaurus
- Too fragmentary to slim it down additional than a tetanuran
- Seemed just like Megalosaurus
- Walked on two legs, muscular physique, had a big head, lengthy tail, quick arms
- Giant carnivore, with sharp enamel
- Estimated to be about 9 m (nearly 30 ft) lengthy
- For a very long time considered Megalosaurus
- Fossils discovered within the early Sixties
- Fossils in all probability collected in a single or two discipline seasons, although there should not actually any detailed collections information
- Fossils have been on the Birmingham Museum and Artwork Gallery till 2008 (was a part of a brief show within the early Nineties), and after they have been transferred to the Warwickshire Museum Service they have been extra intently studied
- A number of theropod fossils discovered from that space have been thought to belong to Megalosaurus for a very long time
- Holotype is a partial proper thigh bone (femur)
- Extra fossils discovered embody some vertebrae, a part of the shoulder, a part of the hip, and rib and bone fragments. Considered from the identical particular person because the holotype, primarily based on the relative sizes of the bones and the truth that there are not any duplicate bones
- Has sufficient variations from Megalosaurus to make it distinct, comparable to a ridge inside a groove on the femur that’s totally different from Megalosaurus
- Kind and solely species is Cruxicheiros newmanorum
- Described in 2010 by Roger Benson and Jonathan Radley
- Genus identify means “cross hand”
- Genus identify refers back to the Cross Fingers Quarry the place the fossils have been discovered
- Species identify newmanorum is in honor of the Newman household, who owns the quarry
- Helps present extra range of huge theropods within the space
- Different dinosaurs that lived across the similar time and place embody Cetiosaurus and Megalosaurus (it’s doable the “scrotum humanum” Megalosaurus fossil got here from the identical formation)
- Additionally dromaeosaurs, stegosaurs, troodontids, therizinosaurs (all indeterminate)
Enjoyable Reality:
Identical to us, the primary dinosaurs possible had 5 fingers and 5 toes.
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