Episode 229 is all about Rhoetosaurus, a sauropod from Queensland, Australia that has been pieced collectively over 50+ years.
We additionally interview Darrin Pagnac, affiliate professor of geology and geological engineering on the South Dakota Faculty of Mines & Know-how, and the writer of a current paper known as Dinosaurs: A Catalyst for Crucial Thought
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On this episode, we talk about:
Information:
- A brand new large titanosaur, Kaijutitan maui, discovered with a partial cranium supply
- The primary lambeosaurine (head-crested) hadrosaur bone from Alaska supply
- The Triceratops named Headless Henry on the Missouri Institute of Pure Science just lately acquired a head supply
- In Calgary, Canada, a clear up firm known as Simply Junk discovered 1000’s of fossils when serving to a household transfer supply
- You’ll be able to see a “Skinny” the sauropod at Heathrow Airport in London till June 3, when it is going to be eliminated for public sale supply
- Jurassic World Dwell Tour introduced U.S. tour dates beginning in Columbus, Ohio this September supply
The dinosaur of the day: Rhoetosaurus
- Sauropod that lived within the Jurassic in what’s now japanese Australia
- Estimated to be about 49 ft (15 m) lengthy and weighed about 9 tonnes (noticed some estimates vary from 12 m to 17 m)
- Lived amongst a whole lot of vegetation (cycads, ferns, mosses), in a moist, humid space
- Herbivorous, and possibly was a browser
- Had a protracted neck, and hole bones
- Had 4 clawed toes on every foot
- Kind species is Rhoetosaurus brownei
- Title means “Rhoetos lizard”
- Named after Rhoetus, a titan in Greek mythology
- Heber Longman, self-taught paleontologist who grew to become director of the Queensland Museum, heard about a big skeleton in 1924 in central Queensland on the Durham Downs Station (a workforce of males working with horses discovered it, they usually thought it was bones from an elephant that ran away from a circus). Arthur Browne, the station supervisor, despatched elements of the bone to Longman
- Named in 1926 by Heber Longman
- Species is known as after Arthur Browne
- Has had some misspellings: Rhaetosaurus (1955, de Lapparent and others) and Rheteosaurus (1979, Yadagiri and others)
- Mary Wade and Alan Bartholomai discovered extra fossil materials in 1975, and others discovered extra even later, so there’s been as much as 40 vertebrae, a part of the sacrum, elements of the pubic bones, and a lot of the proper hind limb, and extra which were discovered (and extra fossil materials from the holotype that may nonetheless be excavated)
- A examine in 2012 by Jay Nair and others targeted on the decrease hind limb, and located no proof for being intently associated to Jurassic sauropods from Asia (others had speculated it was associated to Shunosaurus, as a result of they lived across the similar time)
- Can see Rhoetosaurus within the Land Earlier than Time II: The Nice Valley Journey (leaving water and following a herd of different sauropods)
Enjoyable Reality:
Alvarezsaurus is known as after Don Gregorio Álvarez the historian not one of many Alvarez paleontologists.