I Know Dino Podcast Present Notes: Gigantspinosaurus (Episode 228)


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.



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