Episode 451: A dinosaur with bladelike spikes and herbal plywood armor. A brand new ankylosaur, a brand new ornithopod, and Dr. Will Tattersdill joins us to speak about dinosaurs in Victorian-era popular culture
Information:
- A brand new ankylosaur from the Isle of Wight, Vectipelta, had armor very similar to 1/2 inch thick plywood in its pores and skin and bladelike spikes on its facets supply
- Scientists named a brand new ornithopod dinosaur, Calvarius rapidus supply
- A brand new dinosaur quick, “We Hunt Giants” co-produced through Andreas Feix and Titus Pair supply
Interview:
Will Tattersdill, a Senior Lecturer in Literature and Fresh Delusion Cultures on the College of Glasgow. He’s a professional in late-Victorian science fiction and explores how the connections between dinosaur science and science fiction.
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The dinosaur of the day: Ilokelesia
- Abelisaurid theropod that lived within the Overdue Cretaceous in what’s now Neuquén Province, Argentina (Huincul Formation)
- More or less gave the look of Carnotaurus, however with out the horns
- Walked on two legs, had a protracted tail, lengthy legs, and really quick fingers
- Regarded as to be medium-sized
- Have had a number of dimension estimates: 13 toes (4 m) lengthy and 440 lb (200 kg); 17 toes (5.3 m) lengthy; and 19 toes (5.8 m) lengthy weighing 1850 lb (840 kg)
- Described in 1998 through Rodolfo Coria and Leonardo Salgado
- Fragments of the cranium and skeleton present in 1991
- Holotype integrated a part of the cranium, 5 articulated tail vertebrae, a pair neck and again vertebrae, cervical ribs, a number of toe bones
- Distinctive options within the cranium bones, and within the vertebrae (within the hole depressions within the bones)
- Sort species is Ilokelesia aguadagrandensis
- Genus identify manner “flesh lizard” or a “flesh consuming reptile”
- Species identify refers to the place the fossils had been discovered, in Aguada Grande
- Lived in an arid atmosphere
- Different dinosaurs that lived round the similar time and position come with carcharodontosaurs corresponding to Mapusaurus and Meraxes, titanosaurs together with Argentinosaurus and Chucarosaurus, and hadrosaurs
Amusing Truth:
Carnotaurus had the proportionally shortest arms of any massive carnivorous dinosaur.
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