Episode 470: Existence on Our Planet assessment and a brand new snoozing alvarezsaurid. We talk about all of the VFX dinosaurs from Netflix’s Existence on Our Planet. Plus a remarkably entire new chest-clawed alvarezsaurid that fossilized whilst curled up snoozing
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- A brand new alvarezsaurid, Jaculinykus, which is known as after a “javelin snake” dragon from Greek mythology supply
- A assessment of Netflix’s Existence on Our Planet, how they made the display, which medical main points they were given proper, and our favourite dinosaur reconstructions
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The dinosaur of the day: Turanoceratops
- Ceratopsian that lived within the Past due Cretaceous in what’s now Uzbekistan (Bissekty Formation)
- Small, with a brief frill and two lengthy horns on its forehead, a beak, a long-ish tail, and walked on all fours
- No nasal horn
- Quite small, and estimated to be about 6.5 toes (2 m) lengthy and weigh 385 lb (175 kg)
- Most definitely ate ferns and conifers and would have used its beak to chunk off leaves and needles
- Now not a ceratopsid (which contains the subfamilies chasmosaurines and centrosaurines, and comprises dinosaurs like Triceratops), however transitional between previous ceratopsians and ceratopsids
- In comparison to greater ceratopsids, handiest have two or 3 tooth in each and every vertical dental document (as an alternative of 4 or 5)
- However did have lengthy forehead horns
- Had double rooted tooth
- Discovered to be extra complex despite the fact that than Zuniceratops, the earliest recognized horned dinosaur in North The us
- Seemed very similar to Zuniceratops
- Fragmentary fossils discovered beginning within the Twenties, and scientists concept there used to be some kind of ceratopsid within the house
- Lev Nessov revealed the identify Turanoceratops tardabilis in 1988, however didn’t describe the dinosaur so it used to be a nomen nudum for some time
- Formally named in 1989 via Nessov and others
- Sort species is Turanoceratops tardabilis
- Genus identify way “Turan horned face”
- Turan is an previous Persian identify for Turkestan
- Species identify way “slowing” and refers back to the analysis taking a very long time to call the dinosaur
- Holotype is a broken left higher jaw bone
- Holotype used to be damaged into two tightly becoming items
- Different fossils discovered come with forehead horn cores, portions of the limbs and ft, tooth, a part of the decrease jaw, a part of the cranium
- Different fossils referred to Turanoceratops however grew to become out to belong to different dinosaurs
- One used to be a braincase, which belonged to a sauropod
- Some other used to be what used to be considered a part of the frill, however grew to become out to be armor from an ankylosaur
- Some paleontologists thought to be Turanoceratops to be a nomen dubium however Hans Sues in 2009 stated it used to be legitimate
- Different dinosaurs that lived round the similar time and position integrated the ankylosaur Bissektipelta, theropods akin to Caenagnathasia, the alvarezsaur Dzharaonyx, the dromaeosaur Itemirus, the tyrannosauroid Timurlengia, sauropods akin to Dzharatitanis, and enantiornithines
- Different animals that lived round the similar time and position integrated turtles, molluscs, fish, plesiosaurs, mammals, pterosaurs, lizards, crocodylomorphs, and amphibians
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