Episode 114 is all about Achelousaurus, a ceratopsid with bosses that make it look prefer it had its horns ripped off.
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On this episode, we focus on:
- The dinosaur of the day: Achelousaurus
- Identify means “Achelous’s lizard”
- A centrosaurine ceratopsid that lived within the late Cretaceous in North America
- Discovered within the Two Drugs Formation in Montana
- Kind species is Achelousaurus horneri
- Named by Scott Sampson in 1995
- Identify Achelousaurus refers to Achelous, a Greek river deity, who fought Hercules. Hercules tore off one in all his horns
- Three skulls have been discovered, they usually all have tough bosses the place different ceratopsians have horns, which makes it seem like their horns had been ripped off
- Achelous might additionally shapeshift, and Achelosaurus has mixed options from different ceratopsians
- Species title is in honor of Jack Horner, who led the crew that excavated the holotype cranium of Achelousaurus in 1987
- About 20 ft (6 m) lengthy and weighed 3 tons
- Had a parrot-like beak, and tough bosses on its snout, and a pair of horns on the tip of lengthy bony frills
- Could also be a transitional ceratopsian, because it has two horns on the high of its neck frill, like Einiosaurus, and a big nasal boss, like Pachyrhinosaurus (not everybody agrees although)
- All fossils are on the Museum of the Rockies in Bozeman, Montana, together with a cranium from an grownup (which is 5 ft (1.6 m) lengthy
- Ceratopsians had been ornithiscians
- Lived in North America and Asia
- They’d beaks and cheek enamel to eat fiberous vegetation
- Additionally had a frill (used for protection, regulating physique temperature, attracting mates, or signaling hazard)
- In all probability traveled in herds and will then stampede if threatened
- Enjoyable reality: Contractors excavating for the Rockie’s new baseball stadium in Colorado discovered a part of a Triceratops cranium. Ultimately this led to the mascot “dinger” being a purple Triceratops.
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