Episode 228 is all about Gigantspinosaurus, a stegosaur (not a spinosaur) with giant shoulder spines.
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On this episode, we focus on:
Information:
- The day that worn out the dinosaurs was captured in a 1.3m layer of flood water, fossilized fish, and raining tektites supply
- Based on the New Yorker, we are able to anticipate to see many dinosaur fossils that had been killed by the asteroid in future articles supply
- A number of museums are working collectively to excavate close to the Jurassic Mile in Wyoming supply
- A person discovered a Spinosaurus tooth whereas operating erands in Japan supply
- The Discovery Heart of Idaho in Boise is putting in Tinker, a juvenile T. rex solid supply
- The Antarctic Dinosaurs exhibit is now at LA’s Pure Historical past Museum with Cryolophosaurus and Glacialisaurus supply
- A Jurassic Park fan created a 6 minute cease movement brief known as Indomation that includes an Indoraptor toy and wood artist manikins supply
The dinosaur of the day: Gigantspinosaurus
- Stegosaur that lived within the Late Jurassic in what’s now Sichuan, China
- Holotype is of an grownup and included a partial skeleton of a subadult, with decrease jaws (no cranium), hind toes, and finish of the tail, in addition to plates, spines, and scutes
- Additionally discovered a pores and skin impression from the left shoulder
- Medium-sized, estimated to be 14 ft (4.2 m) lengthy and weighed 1,500 lb (700 kg)
- Had giant shoulder spines, twice so long as the shoulder blades, and small plates on its again
- Had a big head, with 30 enamel within the decrease jaw
- Had broad hips, and strong forelimbs
- Xing Lida and others described the pores and skin impressions in 2008. They had been pentagonal or hexagonal in form
- Skeleton had a pathology within the left femur, most likely from a bone tumor (based mostly on CT scans)
- Kind species is Gigantspinosaurus sichuanensis
- Identify means “big spined lizard”
- Species title refers to Sichuan
- Present in 1985 by Ouyang Hui, and described in 1986 by Gao Ruiqi and others, who thought it was Tuojiangosaurus
- Named in 1992 by Ouyang, in an summary for a lecture
- Regarded as a nomen nudum till 2006 (the summary had sufficient of an outline)
- Tracy Ford wrote an article in 2006 that reconstructed Gigantspinosaurus (there had been different pictures of it printed earlier than)
- Ford mentioned earlier representations had the shoulder spines the other way up, his reconstruction had them going upwards
- Peng Guangzho and others in 2005 redescribed Gigantspinosaurus
- Susannah Maidment and Wei Guangbio in 2006 additionally discovered it was a sound taxon
- Can see Gigantspinosaurus on the Zigong Dinosaur Museum
Enjoyable Reality: The “Age of the Dinosaurs” that all of us think about was principally the Cretaceous Interval.