Episode 251 is all about Huayangosaurus, a smaller Chinese language relative of Stegosaurus.
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On this episode, we focus on:
Information:
- A brand new examine finds that raptors seemingly used their claws for greedy or restraining prey supply
- A brand new absolutely rooted Triceratops tooth is on show at Casper faculty in Wyoming supply
- The Naturalis Biodiversity Heart within the Netherlands 3D printed some lacking bones of their new Triceratops supply
The dinosaur of the day: Huayangosaurus
- Stegosaur that lived within the Center Jurassic in what’s now China
- About 14.7 ft (4.5 m) lengthy (one of many smallest identified stegosaurs)
- Quadrupedal
- Herbivorous
- Had a double row of plates on its neck, again, and tail (extra spike like than relative Stegosaurus)
- Had a number of osteoderms, together with shoulder spines
- Had two massive spikes above its hips, which can have helped deter predators from attacking
- Plates had been smaller than Stegosaurus
- Had vein-like cavities within the plates on its again, might have helped regulate physique temperature or change the colour of the plates to both scare off predators or entice potential mates
- Had two pairs of lengthy spikes close to the tip of its tail (thagomizer)
- Had a small cranium
- Cranium was broader than later stegosaurs, and had premaxillary tooth within the entrance of its mouth (later stegosaurs didn’t have this)
- Had a shorter snout than Stegosaurus
- Had lengthy forelimbs
- Sort species is Huayangosaurus taibaii
- Described in 1982 by Dong Zhiming, Tang Zilu, and Zhou Shiwu
- About 12 people discovered within the Dashanpu Quarry in Sichuan in 1979 and 1980
- Genus title comes from Huayang, an alternate title for Sichuan, the province in China the place it was discovered
- Title means “Huayang’s lizard”
- Genus title additionally alludes to the Hua Yang Guo Zhi from the Jin Dynasty
- Species title is in honor of the Chinese language poet Li Bai, whose courtesy title was Taibai
- In 2006, Susannah Maidment reviewed the fabric and located among the referred specimens ought to be completely different taxon
- Lived across the similar time and place as sauropods comparable to Shunosaurus and Omeisaurus, the ornithopod Xiaosaurus, and the carnivore Gasosaurus
- Can see a mounted skeleton of Huayangosaurus on the Zigong Dinosaur Museum in Zigong and the Municipal Museum of Chongqing in Sichuan Province, China
- Can even see Huayangosaurus within the sport Jurassic World: Evolution
Enjoyable Reality:
Not all raptors are “raptors”. Along with dromaeosaurs, there are oviraptors, and different theropods that use the title.