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Episode 245 is all about Vulcanodon, a Jurassic sauropod that lived in an African desert surrounded by volcanoes.
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On this episode, we focus on:
Information:
- A microraptor was discovered with a whole lizard in its abdomen that it ate face first supply
- A shiny new dinosaur, Hesperornithoides, was present in amber with one particularly lengthy fuzzy toe supply
- Makoshika State Park in Montana has a brand new dinosaur/paleontology tour supply
- Dinosaur Isle Museum, within the UK, has a brand new juvenile T. rex duplicate skeleton supply
- Symposium of Vertebrate Palaeontology and Comparative Anatomy is being held on the Isle of Wight in September supply
- The Grand Rapids Kids’s Museum in Michigan has a brand new touring exhibit referred to as Wonderful Dinosaurs supply
- Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, Colin Trevorrow, and Blue attended the grand opening of Jurassic World the Journey supply
- A cellular recreation referred to as Faucet! Dig! My Museum! Is on the market on Android and iOS supply
The dinosaur of the day: Vulcanodon
- Sauropod that lived within the Jurassic in what’s now southern Africa
- Quadrupedal, with column-like legs, lengthy neck, lengthy tail
- Based mostly on skeletal stays, not less than 21 ft (6.5 m) lengthy
- Gregory Paul estimated it to be 35 ft (11 m) lengthy
- Estimated to weigh 3.5 tonnes
- Early, basal sauropod
- Not a lot identified in regards to the cranium or neck
- Forelimbs have been extra much like later sauropods, about 3/4 the size of hindlimbs (proportionately lengthy)
- Had a big claw on the primary toe of every foot
- Claws and second and third toes have been broad and nail-like (much like Tazoudasaurus, an in depth relative sauropod present in Morocco, however not different sauropods)
- Had spoon-shaped enamel
- Just one species: Vulcanodon karibaensis
- Present in 1969 in Zimbabwe
- Discovered on an island in Lake Kariba in northern Zimbabwe (was Rhodesia). Lake Kariba is the most important man-made lake on this planet
- Present in 1969 by B.A. Gibson, a workforce collected the fossils between October 1969 and Might 1970
- Described in a short word at a symposium in Cape City in 1972 by Michael Raath
- Genus title means “volcano tooth”
- Skeleton was present in sandstone, on Island 126/127 (no official title), within the “Vulcanodon beds”, sediment within the Batoka Formation with flood basalts. On the time Vulcanodon lived, there was a whole lot of volcanism and lava flows.
- Genus title refers back to the Roman god of fireside, Vulcanus, mixed with the Greek phrase “odon” for tooth
- Species title refers to Lake Kariba
- One of many first dinosaurs present in Zimbabwe
- Discovered a fragmentary skeleton (pelvis, sacrum, a lot of the hind limb and foot, proper forearm, proper thigh bone, and tail vertebrae). No cranium discovered
- Geoffrey Bond and Michael Cooper discovered extra fossils later, together with a shoulder blade and a part of a neck vertebra
- Initially regarded as a prosauropod (discovered knife-shaped enamel close to the fossils, and prosauropods might have been omnivorous). However these enamel are literally from a theropod that will have scavenged the Vulcanodon carcass
- Raath thought at first Vulcanodon was a complicated prosauropod, then in 1975 Arthur Cruickshank confirmed it was a sauropod (Vulcanodon’s fifth toe is identical size as fifth toes on sauropods)
- For a very long time scientists thought Vulcanodon lived within the Early Jurassic or the Triassic-Jurassic boundary and regarded as the earliest identified sauropod, however Adam Yates in 2004 discovered Vulcanodon was a lot youthful, from the Late Jurassic
- In 2000, scientists described the sauropod Isanosaurus from Thailand, which lived within the Triassic (effectively earlier than Vulcanodon)
- Most likely lived in a desert like setting
- Vulcanodon fossils are saved in Bulawayo, within the Pure Historical past Museum of Zimbabwe
Enjoyable Truth:
Some dinosaurs might not have digested their meals absolutely, and opted to spit out components of undigested meals like owls do at this time.