Episode 195 is all about Gryphoceratops, a tiny Canadian cousin of Triceratops.
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On this episode, we talk about:
Information:
- A brand new article reveals that Spinosaurus most likely couldn’t swim successfully, however was a succesful bipedal walker on land supply
- Victoria Arbour is the brand new curator of paleontology on the Royal British Columbia Museum supply
- Dickinson Dinosaur Museum has continued excavating a tyrannosaur and hadrosaur within the Judith River Formation in Montana supply
- Juvenile hadrosaurs bones have been discovered within the Spring Creek bone mattress close to the Philip J. Currie Dinosaur Museum in Grande Prairie supply
- The Queensland Museum in Australia is 3D scanning its assortment of fossils and can share its analysis with Australian college students and worldwide scientists supply
- Dinosaur Hill in Fruita, Colorado has some new indicators to show individuals in regards to the historic significance of the realm supply
- Ohio State College’s Orton Corridor Museum is getting a Cryolophosaurus forged to show on October 7 supply
- Brazos Valley Museum of Pure Historical past in Texas has some new fossils, together with a full sized forged of a Triceratops cranium supply
- From now till September 9, you’ll be able to see the “Tyrannosaurus Exhibit: The thriller of evolution” on the Okinawa Prefectural Museum and Artwork Museum in Naha, Japan supply
- The Bolton Museum in Bolton, UK, just lately formally nicknamed their Tuojiangosaurus skeleton “Jango” supply
- Smithsonian Magazine wrote an elegy for Hatcher the Triceratops which is able to quickly be on show being eaten by a T. rex supply
- An inventory of dinosaur video games consists of Magic Faculty Bus: Dinosaurs, Dinosaur Island, Jurassic Park: Hazard, Dino Frontier, and Ark: Survival Advanced. supply
- The brand new recreation, Jurassic World VR Expedition is offered to play in Dave & Busters supply
- In keeping with J.A. Bayona, E.T. impressed the actually unhappy Brachiosaurus dying scene in Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom supply
- A bunch of US army veterans made a Jurassic World fan movie referred to as “Jurassic World Exodus” supply
The dinosaur of the day: Gryphoceratops
- Leptoceratopsid ceratopsian that lived within the Cretaceous in what’s now Alberta, Canada
- Identify means “Griffin horned face”
- Discovered within the Milk River Formation in Dinosaur Provincial Park
- Solely holotype discovered, and consists of a partial proper decrease jaw
- Named in 2012 by Michael Ryan, David Evans, Philip Currie, Caleb Brown, Don Brinkman
- Sort species is Gryphoceratops morrisoni
- Herbivorous
- Oldest recognized leptoceratopsid, but additionally one of the superior
- Leptoceratopsids are intently associated to neoceratopsians, however are extra primitive and often smaller
- Unclear how huge it was, however would be the smallest recognized grownup ceratopsian from North America
Enjoyable Truth:
Till the Fifties–70s each sauropods & hadrosaurs had been typically thought of aquatic or semi-aquatic.
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