Episode 506: Stegosaurus is the Maximum Treasured Dinosaur. A Stegosaurus simply bought for over $44 million; A brand spanking new burrowing dinosaur used to be present in a bunch; And a brand new iguanodontian which is essentially the most whole dino present in Britain in 100 years.
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- A Stegosaurus nicknamed Apex simply bought at public sale for $44.6 million, making it essentially the most treasured dinosaur skeleton ever bought supply
- There’s a brand new dinosaur, Fona herzogae, that turns out to had been buried in a bunch in its burrow supply
- There’s a brand new iguanodontian dinosaur, Comptonatus chasei, which is essentially the most whole dinosaur present in Britain in 100 years supply
- The Museum of Evolution in Denmark has a brand new Camarasaurus so as to add to its selection of dinosaurs from Wyoming supply
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The dinosaur of the day: Jubbulpuria
- Noasaurid theropod that lived within the Past due Cretaceous in what’s now Madhya Pradesh, India (Lameta Formation)
- Noasaurids are intently associated with abelisaurids (that have brief fingers) however that they had our bodies extra like different theropods, despite the fact that there are variations within the heads relying at the subfamilies (some don’t have any enamel, some have loopy enamel)
- Small carnivore, round the similar dimension as Masiakasaurus, which is estimated to be about 2 m (6.6 toes) lengthy
- Walked on two legs, had brief fingers, lengthy tail
- In line with paleoart, had an extended head and sharp enamel
- (No longer many bones stumbled on, only a few vertebrae)
- Jubbulpuria is now a junior synonym of some other dinosaur, Laevisuchus
- How did that occur?
- First, some fast historical past
- First reported dinosaur bones from India used to be in 1828, when British Military Captain W. H. Sleeman stumbled on tail bones with ball-and-socket joints, from the Past due Cretaceous in what’s now Jabalpur (then “Jubbulpore”)
- Took place prior to Dinosauria used to be named
- However later the bones had been named Titanosaurus indicus
- Simplest dinosaur bones till Matley and Bhattacharji got here alongside
- Fossils had been excavated in 1917 to 1919 by way of Charles Matley and Durgansanka Bhattacharji (Laevisuchus and Jubbulpuria)
- Since then, extra dinosaurs stumbled on (28 named species from India thus far)
- Kind species of Jubbulpuria used to be Jubbulpuria tenuis
- Genus title Jubbulpuria refers to the place the fossils the place stumbled on
- Species title tenius refers to its advantageous or narrow bones (skinny bones)
- Named by way of Huene and Matley in 1933 in response to two small vertebrae from the again house (dorsal area)
- Later research stumbled on the 2 bones got here from the tail as a substitute
- A whole lot of portions of predatory dinosaurs stumbled on within the Lameta Formation, in what used to be referred to as the “Carnosaur mattress”
- Huene and Matley described 9 species from 8 genera in 1933, in response to 32 bins of subject material
- Additionally described many leg bones that they couldn’t discuss with any species however mentioned had been allosaurid or coelurosaurid theropods
- All stumbled on from one house, the “Carnosaur mattress”
- Bones had been “heaped in combination on this small house, with little regard to their unique courting” (in step with Huene and Matley), all in a space about 20 sq. yards
- Mentioned that they had notes on the place the bones had been situated within the Carnosaur mattress, however the notes have now not been stumbled on
- Norman in 1990 stumbled on Jubbulpuria to be nomen dubium, and 2004 assessment by way of Fernando Novas and others agreed
- That 2004 assessment stumbled on that Laevisuchus indicus used to be a small abelisaurid, associated with Noasaurus and Masiakasaurus in response to the neck bones, and Jubbulpuria (debatable taxa) used to be recognized from remoted vertebrae from the tail and in addition an abelisauroid
- Discovered the entire theropods from that Carnosaur mattress to be abelisauroids
- In 2011 Carrano and others prompt that Compsosuchus, Jubbulpuria, and Laevisuchus would possibly all be the similar
- Kind species is Laevisuchus indicus
- Described by way of Friedrich von Huene and Charles Matley in 1933
- Genus title Laevisuchus approach “gentle crocodile”
- Genus title is for the traditional Egyptian crocodile god, Soukhos
- Species title approach “Indian” (present in India)
- Laeviscuchus described in 1933 by way of Huene and Matley
- In line with 3 cervicals (neck bones)
- However two of the bones went lacking (as of 2004)
- In 2012, some of the neck bones used to be re-found in 3 separate items in unmarked bins, together with different fragments on the Invertebrate Gallery of the Indian Museum
- Then some other neck bone used to be rediscovered in 2012/2013
- A part of some other lacking vertebrae additionally present in 2013 (items of each vertebrae lacking, and one neck bone nonetheless lacking)
- A 2024 assessment of small theropods from the Past due Cretaceous of India, by way of Dhananjay Mohabey and others, studied the 3 recognized neck bones and again bone for Laevisuchus, in addition to the 2 tails bones for Jubbulpuria (in addition to different small theropods)
- Small theropods thought to be to be beneath 5 m lengthy (beneath about 16 toes)
- Discovered the neck bones of Laevisuchus had been maximum like Masiakasaurus (now not as a lot Noasaurus)
- Additionally described a brand new partial jawbone not too long ago accumulated from the Lameta Formation
- Most likely belongs to a noasaurid, in all probability Laevisuchus
- New dentary described has options in commonplace with Masiakasaurus, so turns out to belong to a noasaurid
- Designated a lectotype for Laevisuchus (a just about whole neck vertebra)
- When first described, no kind specimen of Laevisuchus
- One neck vertebra used to be the de facto kind specimen, as it used to be the one one truly described and for a very long time the one one stumbled on within the Geological Survey of India collections
- Additionally referred different vertebrae
- Named some of the neck bones because the lectotype as it used to be essentially the most whole and perfect preserved
- And mentioned the 2 tail vertebrae of Jubbulpuria is most likely Laevisuchus
- Onerous to check the options however they’re all subtle and feature skinny partitions, the dimensions is constant to belonging to the similar particular person, in response to evaluating to a Masiakasaurus specimen, and authors mentioned in response to no duplication, having a look in a similar way, being the precise dimension, and all present in the similar limited house approach it most likely belongs to the similar species
- The title Laevisuchus seemed first, so maintaining that title and Jubbulpuria turns into a junior synonym
- Lived in a space with a large number of crops, and used to be a tropical lagoon
- Different dinosaurs that lived round the similar time and position come with the titanosaur Jainosaurus, the abelisaurs Indosaurus and Indosuchus (and plenty of different theropods)
- Different animals that lived round the similar time and position come with snakes, crocodylomorphs, turtles, mammals, and mollusks
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