Episode 213 is all about Qantassaurus, a small, fast, bipedal herbivore from Australia.
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On this episode, we talk about:
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- A brand new titanosaur from Argentina was named Baalsaurus supply
- Two new pterosaurs have been discovered with fossilized feathers—making a shared feathery ancestor between dinosaurs and pterosaurs barely extra probably supply
- A brand new dinosaur trackway from East Sussex, England preserves no less than 7 species amongst 85 tracks supply
- Embryonic analysis of birds explains the place two lacking bones went as dinosaurs advanced into birds supply
- New particulars on the primary two dinosaur fossils present in Oregon supply
- BBC explains hw a shepherd in South Africa discovered an enormous dinosaur bonebed supply
- Canadian Museum of Nature is making ready a big Triceratops cranium supply
- A Smithsonian article discusses the complexities of the dinosaur extinction supply
- Mike Taylor and Matt Wedel from SV-Pow are writing a paper on Github supply
- Ulsan, South Korea has a brand new Dinosaur Footprint Park supply
- Das Praehistorium in Germany has a “Moby Dick” like Megalodon expertise and dinosaur sculptures supply
- The BoJack Horseman author Jonny Solar posted a very unlucky dinosaur toy that he gained supply
- Jurassic Park has now been added to the Nationwide Movie Registry supply
- The sport Jurassic World Evolution has a brand new replace, with three new dinosaurs you’ll be able to have in your park supply
- Jurassic World 3 will characteristic dinosaurs as extra of an invasive species than Godzilla-like city-destroyers supply
The dinosaur of the day: Qantassaurus
- Ornithopod that lived within the Cretaceous in what’s now Australia (when it was south of the Antarctic Circle)
- Bipedal and herbivorous
- Decrease jaw had ten tooth
- Primarily based on family members, would have had brief thighs and lengthy shins, and been a quick runner
- In all probability ran away from predators, much like a gazelle
- Had claws on toes, and a protracted tail stiffened by ossified tendons (helped with turning)
- About 6 ft (1.8 m) lengthy
- In all probability had a beak, and leaf-shaped tooth within the again
- Browser, in all probability ate ferns and different vegetation utilizing its fingers
- Might have travelled in herds or flocks
- Lived in a polar area
- In all probability lived in chilly temperatures (21 to 37°F, or -6 to five °C), and coldest throughout polar nights, which lasted as much as 3 months
- In all probability tailored to outlive the chilly
- Family members have been energetic all year long (no hibernation)
- Dinosaur burrows, of presumably small ornithopods, have been discovered alongside the southern Victorian coast (may very well be Qantassaurus?)
- Present in 1996, as a part of the Dinosaur Dreaming challenge (run by Monash College and the Nationwide Museum of Victoria)
- Discovered by Nicole Evered
- Described in 1999 by Patricia Vickers-Wealthy and Tom Wealthy (discovered close to Inverloch)
- Solely jaw fragments are recognized (based mostly on the jaw fragments, in all probability had a brief, stubby face)
- Holotype is of the left dentary of the decrease jaw, with ten tooth
- Two different jaws have been referred to Qantassaurus (present in the identical yr, similar website)
- Patricia mentioned “the jaw is exclusive as a result of it’s brief and stocky, whereas different jaws…are lengthy and slender”
- Sort species is Qantassaurus intrepidus
- Named after Qantas, the Australian airline, as a result of it shipped fossils round Australia as a part of the Nice Russian Dinosaurs Exhibit between 1993 and 1996, and sponsored expeditions to South America and jap Europe
- Identify means “Qantas lizard”
- Species title means “intrepid” in Latin (refers back to the harsh local weather it lived in)
- Could also be as much as six varieties of small ornithopods that lived within the Cretaceous in Australia, however solely recognized from fragments
- Family members embrace Atlascopcosaurus, Leaellynasaura
- First Victorian ornithopods have been categorized as Hypsilophodontidae, based mostly on similarities within the cranium and tooth construction to hypsilophodontids present in Europe (however now considered a wastebasket taxon, so present process revision)
- Validity of Qantassaurus is underneath overview (some suppose it’s, others suppose there’s not sufficient diagnostic fossil materials)
Enjoyable Truth: We lined 42 new dinosaur species (to this point) that have been named this yr.
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