Episode 160 is all about Scutellosaurus, an armored dinosaur whose title means “little shielded lizard.”
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On this episode, we focus on:
Information:
- Halszkaraptor escuilliei appears to be like like a swan with claws
- Tarchia teresae was present in Mongolia
- New hadrosauroid Zuoyunlong fills in a niche in hadrosauroid migration to North America
- Sauropod footprints present in South Korea have pores and skin impressions
- The Denver Museum of Nature and Science obtained a donation of 6,000 Edmontosaurus bones
- and their Triceratops “Tiny” turned out to be a Torosaurus (AKA grownup Triceratops to some folks)
- Kansas College Pure Historical past Museum now has a 4 12 months previous T. rex on show
- North Dakota Heritage Middle and State Museum has new T. rex tooth on show
- Jurassic Information posted an interview with Dr. Denver Fowler in regards to the Badlands Dinosaur Museum
- The Lower revealed an article about why so many youngsters, over a number of generations, love dinosaurs
- Every day Dot had a enjoyable publish filled with movies of what dinosaurs might have gave the impression of
- The Actual T. rex may have a new sound recreation when it comes out on January 2
- The Day the Dinosaurs Died (the documentary is in regards to the Chixilub crater) is coming to the U.S. on December 27 on PBS
- Physician Who had a story in season 6, referred to as “Dinosaurs on a Spaceship“
- There’s a brand new dinosaur park administration sim sport referred to as Parkasaurus, coming to Steam early entry subsequent spring
- A brand new dinosaur ebook, referred to as Bolivar includes a dinosaur in New York Metropolis that everybody is just too busy to note
- Dino4hire is now reserving their 2018 faculty academic dinosaur workshops
- The Etsy store The Vanilla Studio sells a T. rex menorah and candlestick holders
- Some vandals stole a three-foot dinosaur sporting a Santa hat, however have been promptly caught
- A mother purchased a dinosaur pillow case that arrived with the picture of a mannequin mendacity on the pillow quite than simply the dinosaur
- Chicago Magazine revealed an incredible interview with Sue the T. rex
- Forbes revealed a geological overview of the brand new Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom trailer
- David Orr from Love within the Time of Chasmosaurs revealed the outcomes of the Nice 2017 Paleoart Survey
The dinosaur of the day: Scutellosaurus
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- Thyreophoran ornithischian that lived within the Jurassic in what’s now Arizona, within the U.S.
- Armored dinosaur, whose closest family members have been most likely Emausaurus and Scelidosaurus
- Identify means “little shielded lizard”
- Just one species: Scutellosaurus lawleri
- Species title is in honor of David Lawler, who discovered the fossil
- Lawler, a grad pupil at College of California, Berkeley on the time, discovered the holotype on the West Moenkopi Plateau locality within the Silty Facies
- Member of the Kayenta Formation, in Coconino County, Arizona (a part of Navajo Nation), in 1971
- Described by Edwin Colbert in 1981, based mostly on the fossils Lawler discovered that have been collected in 1977, and a second specimen
- James Clark discovered six extra specimens in 1983
- Colbert initially thought it was associated to Lesothosaurus, a basal ornithischian, and positioned Scutellosaurus within the household Fabrosauridae, however the scutes and different options finally put it in Thyreophora
- One of many earliest armored dinosaurs, and essentially the most basal one discovered thus far
- Too basal to be thought of an ankylosaur or stegosaur
- Had over 300 osteoderms on its neck, again, and tail, that fashioned parallel rows (as much as 5 rows on both sides)
- Scutes have been too small for species recognition, they have been embedded like in crocodiles and probably not seen
- Scutes may have been used for protection
- Potential predators on the time have been Megapnosaurus and Dilophosaurus
- Herbivore, had leaf-shaped cheek tooth
- Small, lightly-built
- Might develop as much as 3.9 ft (1.2 m) lengthy, and weighed 22 lb (10 kg)
- In all probability bipedal, although might have walked on all fours when consuming
- Had an extended tail, most likely for stability
Enjoyable Truth:
Teresa Maryańska (Polish Paleontologist) named two ankylosaurs in 1977: Tarchia AKA the “brainy one” and Saichania AKA the “lovely one”
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