Episode 512: Proof that long-necks cared for his or her younger. The sauropodomorph Lufengosaurus seems to have fed its younger. Plus two new dinosaurs, a ceratopsian and a titanosaur; Plateosaurus tail accidents; and the relationship between the bubonic plague and dinosaurs.
Information:
- There’s a brand new ceratopsian dinosaur, Sasayamagnomus saegusai supply
- There’s a brand new titanosaur sauropod, Qunkasaura pintiquiniestra supply
- Injury to numerous tails might imply the sauropodomorph Plateosaurus regularly needed to are living with its accidents supply
- Lengthy necked dinosaurs did care! The basal sauropodomorph Lufengosaurus most certainly took care of and fed its younger supply
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The dinosaur of the day: Saichania
- Ankylosaurid dinosaur that lived within the Past due Cretaceous in what’s now Mongolia and China
- Lived about 73 million years in the past
- Had a strong construct
- Walked on 4 legs, and had robust forelimbs
- Estimated to be about 16 to 23 toes (5 to 7 m) lengthy and weigh 1.5 to two.2 heaps (1.4 to two metric heaps)
- Had a flat, low frame
- Frame was once lined in osteoderms/armor
- Had rows of conical osteoderms on its again
- Had keeled osteoderms at the frame (triangular in form)
- Head lined in bulbous armor
- Had pyramid-shaped horns behind the cranium
- Had a large cranium
- Had triangular horns at the cheeks
- Had a beak
- Had a troublesome palate, possibly to devour tricky crops
- Had small, leaf-shaped tooth
- Had a protracted tongue
- Had a large intestine
- Had a tail membership
- Had advanced air passages, that can have helped it calm down the air it breathed
- Sort species is Saichania chulsanensis, however named in line with no longer many fossils (again part of the dinosaur isn’t widely known)
- Holotype features a cranium, a part of the skeleton together with neck and again bones, a part of the left shoulder and forelimb, two neck halfrings, and loads of armor (most commonly articulated)
- Fossils first discovered within the Seventies in Mongolia
- Named in 1977 via Teresa Maryanska
- Genus title method “gorgeous one” in Mongolian
- Genus title refers to how neatly the fossils had been preserved
- Species title refers back to the provenance close to Chulsa, the place the fossils had been discovered
- Different specimens were referred to Saichania, together with a juvenile skeleton and a few undescribed fossils
- Juvenile was once described in 2011 via Kenneth Chippie and others
- On the other hand, in 2014 Victoria Arbour discovered that the skeleton was once deceptive, and that the postcranial skeleton belonged to a couple different ankylosaur, most likely Pinacosaurus
- Arbour additionally recommended a cranium concept to belong to Tarchia exemplar was once Saichania
- However no longer everybody has the same opinion, and a few scientists imagine the cranium to be Tarchia teresae
- Lived in a scorching, dry atmosphere (a wasteland)
- Different dinosaurs that lived round the similar time and position come with the pachycephalosaur Tylocephale and the ceratopsians Lamaceratops and Bagaceratops, and the ankylosaur Tarchia, in addition to alvarezsaurs and sauropods
- Different animals that lived round the similar time and position come with lizards and mammals
A laugh Reality:
Collagen can remaining for just about 200 million years.
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