In our one hundred and sixty fifth episode, we bought to talk with Dr. Andrew Farke and Gabriel-Philip Santos, from the Raymond M. Alf Museum of Paleontology.
Andy is a paleontologist and Augustyn household curator and the director of analysis and collections, and he’s on the science defective for the Webb Colleges (the Alf Museum is on The Webb Colleges campus, and is the one nationally accredited museum within the U.S. on a highschool campus). He’s additionally a PLOS Paleo Group Editor. His analysis focuses on Cretaceous ecosystems in North America, particularly ceratopsians.
Andy additionally blogs about beer, at andybrews.com! And you’ll find him on Twitter @AndyFarke.
Gabe is the Collections Supervisor on the museum, the place he catalogs, organizes, and cares for the museum’s rising assortment of fossils. and he works on a lot of insanely cool initiatives, together with Cosplay for Science, on Instagram @cosplayforscience and Twitter @Cosplay4Science, and Paleontology Training. Gabe’s analysis focuses on marine mammals.
You can even discover Gabe on Instagram @paleoparadox and on Twitter @PaleoParadoX.
And final, you possibly can be taught extra in regards to the Alf Museum on Instagram @alfpaleo, on Twitter @alfmuseum, and on Fb @AlfMuseum.
The Alf Museum additionally hosts discovery days, and the following one is February 10 for Girls in Paleontology!
Episode 165 can also be about Gojirasaurus, a carnivore whose identify means “Godzilla lizard.”
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On this episode, we focus on:
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- New Jurassic dinosaur tracks present in southern France
- Cretaceous sauropod tracks present in China documented by drones
- Theropod tracks in Arkansas, U.S. digitized with LIDAR
- The George S. Eccles Dinosaur Park in Ogden, Utah, has reopened
- Paleontologist Denver Fowler, from the Dickinson Museum Heart, is engaged on a brand new dinosaur exhibit referred to as Claws
- Mount Royal College in Calgary, Alberta, has a brand new exhibit referred to as Cretaceous Lands
- McDonald’s ran a radio advert that urged it was higher to spend $5 on a price meal than a museum tour, after which rapidly stopped airing it
- In Eire, Jim Jim and Nobby from the Strawberry Alarm Clock breakfast present, pranked one among their co-workers with Pete the dinosaur
- Within the UK, visitors officers are looking for the proprietor of a misplaced dinosaur toy
- Wealthy Douglas has launched a cinematic tribute to the Nintendo 64 sport, Turok Dinosaur Hunter
The dinosaur of the day: Gojirasaurus
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- Coelophysoid that lived within the Triassic in what’s now New Mexico
- Identify means “Godzilla Lizard”
- Named after Gojira (the Japanese identify for Godzilla)
- Gojira is a mix of the Japanese phrases for gorilla (gorira) and whale (kujira)
- There’s a Godzillasaurus, within the Heisei period of Godzilla movies (a political interval of Japan)
- Kind species is Gojirasaurus quayi
- Quayi refers to Quay County, New Mexico, the place the holotype was discovered
- Discovered within the Cooper Canyon Formation in 1981
- Described in 1997 by Kenneth Carpenter
- Could also be a doubtful genus
- Fossils of the primary specimen discovered embrace a serrated tooth, some ribs, vertebrae, chevron proper pubis, left tibia, and metatarsal
- Nevertheless, in 2007 Nesbitt and others discovered that the vertebrae have been truly of Shuvosaurus, and the pubis and tibia got here from different coelophysoid, (too massive to be its shut relative Coelophysis), which made Gojirasaurus a doubtful genus
- Nesbitt and others additionally stated that the tibia was what distinguished Gojirasaurus as its personal genus (extra sturdy that Coelophysis)
- In 2012 Mortimer stated that the extra sturdy tibia could be size-related, and never a distinguished function
- One other specimen was referred to Gojirasaurus in 1994, but it surely was solely a pubis
- Adrian Hunt described the pubis in an unpublished thesis, and named it Revueltoraptor lucasi, but it surely’s now thought-about to be a nomen nudum
- As a coelophysoid, it was bipedal, terrestrial, and carnivorous
- One of many largest carnivores from the Triassic
- About 18 ft (5.5 m) lengthy and estimated to weigh 330-400 lb (150-200 kg)
- Carpenter thought the holotype was a juvenile, so it could have grown greater
- Specimen is now within the College of Colorado Museum in Boulder, Colorado (within the collections)
Enjoyable Truth:
Radar is an acronym for Radio Detection And Ranging. Lidar is a portmanteau of sunshine & radar, though typically individuals make the backronym Gentle Detection And Ranging. The Arkansas tracksite was measured with LIDAR for a great cause, it had just lately rained and photogrammetry wouldn’t work (radar wouldn’t both) however the green-laser gentle labored by means of the water.
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