Episode 230 is all about Jeholosaurus, a cute little ornithopod from northeastern China.
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On this episode, we focus on:
Information:
- Superb pores and skin element was preserved in a single inch lengthy theropod tracks in South Korea supply
- A brand new examine reveals that Dinosaurs didn’t evolve thick eggs till the Center or Late Jurassic supply
- A brand new paper declares that Bienosaurus is a nomen dubium supply
- The Discipline Museum in Chicago recreated the night time sky of the Cretaceous interval to accompany Sue supply
- The College of Michigan Museum of Pure Historical past is a brand new museum that has a Majungasaurus on show supply
- In Texas, there’s a touring museum that has gone to 1000’s of faculties, known as Dinosaur George supply
- Robert Younger, a 9-year-old created a web site Dinology, devoted to dinosaurs supply
- The Jurassic Park trilogy is now on Netflix, within the UK and Eire, however not the US supply
The dinosaur of the day: Jeholosaurus
- Ornithischian that lived within the Early Cretaceous in what’s now China (Yixian Formation within the Jehol Biota)
- Physique much like different ornithopods
- Bipedal and small
- Holotype is of a compressed cranium and partial skeleton, and is 28 in (71.1 cm) lengthy, with a 14 in (35.6 cm) lengthy tail
- Second specimen discovered, has small cranium and a few neck vertebrae
- Each specimens are both juveniles or subadults
- Skulls are incomplete, however had a brief snout and huge eyes
- Could have been an omnivore
- Again enamel and maxillary enamel are fan formed, like herbivores
- Premaxillary enamel are longer and extra slender, like carnivores
- Present in 2000 in Liaoning Province and described in 2000 by Xu Xing, Wang Xioalin, and You Hailu
- Kind species is Jeholosaurus shangyuanensis
- Title means “lizard from Jehol” (an previous geographical title for western Liaoning and northern Hebei)
- Species title refers back to the geographical space of Shangyuan the place the fossils have been discovered
- Small ornithopods are uncommon in East Asia. Extra work must be carried out to additional set up the phylogeny of Jeholosaurus
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