Episode 498: Two new dinos! And exploring dinosaurs thru language. A brand new theropod dinosaur, Dornraptor, that wasn’t named after Recreation of Thrones; A brand new sauropodomorph that used to be named after a houseboat; and an replace on Carthage School’s paleo program
Information:
- A brand new theropod dinosaur, Dornraptor normani, used to be named from bones found out over 150 years in the past supply
- There’s a brand new sauropodomorph from Zimbabwe, Musankwa sanyatiensis, named after a houseboat supply
- The Carthage Institute of Paleontology will run out of investment for his or her preparator in August and their box program will pass with it supply
Dinosaur Connection Problem: Language
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The dinosaur of the day: Elsornis
- Enantiornithine fowl that lived within the Overdue Cretaceous in what’s now Mongolia (Djadokhta Formation)
- No cranium discovered, so paleoart varies a little
- Some depictions seem like a roadrunner
- Smaller than a roadrunner
- Walked on two legs, small, had a beak
- Discovered within the Gobi Wasteland
- Neatly preserved, in 3 dimensions
- Just a partial skeleton (no cranium) has been discovered, and it comprises each wings
- Has a pneumatized furcula (air stuffed cavities within the wishbone), which hadn’t in reality been observed in enantiornitheans
- Had a bend or kink within the shoulder blade
- Within the palms, the ulna used to be brief in comparison to the humerus, and general the palms had been brief proportionally
- So the higher arm used to be for much longer than the decrease arm
- Proportions very similar to paleognaths, akin to ostriches and emus
- Most probably couldn’t fly, according to its wing proportions
- First proof of a flightless enantiornithine
- Enantiornithes, “reverse birds” lived everywhere the sector all through the Cretaceous (has been discovered on all continents aside from Antarctica)
- Had claws on their wings and tooth
- However seemed so much like trendy birds
- Over 80 species named of enantiornithes, even though no longer all is also legitimate (many named from a unmarried bone)
- Elsornis is the one one discovered up to now that can were flightless
- Any other enantiornithean, Flexomornis (named in 2010), had identical options to Elsornis, however no longer sufficient of the palms discovered so in line with the authors who named Flexomornis, “this kind of declare is most probably untimely”
- Kind species is Elsornis keni
- Named in 2007 by way of Chiappe and others
- Genus title Elsornis way “sand fowl”
- Species title keni is in honor of Ken Hayashibara, who supported the Hayashibara Museum of Herbal Sciences–Mongolian Paleontological Middle Joint Paleontological Expedition
- Lived in a heat semi-arid local weather
- Different dinosaurs that lived round the similar time and position come with ankylosaurs akin to Pinacosaurus, dromaeosaurs akin to Velociraptor, halszkaraptorines akin to Mahakala, and ornithomimids akin to Aepyornithomimus
- Different animals that lived round the similar time and position come with amphibians, crocodylomorphs, lizards, mammals, pterosaurs, and turtles
Amusing Truth:
Dinosaurs were discovered on all 7 continents together with Antarctica.
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