Episode 513: Updates on Dinosaur Expansion and Construction. Juvenile Daspletosaurus cranium bones; Trendy birds have top Encephalization Quotients from their non-avian dinosaur ancestors; Dinosaur measurement estimate issues; Plus new non-fiction dinosaur books
Information:
- 3 immature Daspletosaurus cranium bones assist display how the dinosaur modified (and didn’t trade) because it grew up supply
- Trendy birds have top EQs which they advanced from non-avian dinosaurs supply
- Scientists warning on easy methods to estimate sizes and frame shapes of extinct animals (watch out what animals you examine it to) supply
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The dinosaur of the day: Suzhousaurus
- Therizinosauroid dinosaur that lived within the Early Cretaceous in what’s now China (Xiagou Formation and Zhonggou Formation)
- Vulture like, with the neck and head, however with lengthy hands and claws, and far greater, strolling on two legs, lengthy tail, roughly skeksis like
- Herbivorous theropod
- Amusing reality: therizinosaurs have been first considered massive turtle kin
- Huge, estimated to be as much as 20 feet (6 m) lengthy and weigh over 3 heaps
- Is helping display therizinosauroids were given massive early on
- Had probably the most longest recognized higher arm bones of any theropod
- Had a large frame
- Most certainly waddled
- Had a big abdominal
- Had tough legs
- Had a brief tail
- Had lengthy claws and a protracted neck
- Had a beak
- Will have had some feathers, in keeping with its relative Beipiaosaurus
- Vertebrae wasn’t that mild (now not in point of fact pneumatized)
- Sort species is Suzhousaurus megatherioides
- Two specimens discovered all over fieldwork in 1999 and 2004
- Described in 2007 by way of Daqing Li and others
- Genus title way “Suzhou lizard”
- Genus title refers to Suzhou, the outdated title for the Jiuquan space the place the fossils have been discovered
- Species title megatherioides refers to it taking a look like the large floor sloth Megatherium
- Complete title way “massive sloth-like reptile from Suzhou”
- Authors mentioned Suzhousaurus may well be the similar as “Nanshiungosaurus” bohlini, a therizinosauroid named previous that used to be present in the similar space, however is understood from only a few fossils (so arduous to match)
- Holotype is a partial skeleton (no cranium), and features a proper higher arm, proper shoulder, partial ribs, portions of the hips, and 10 again vertebrae
- A extra entire skeleton used to be described in 2008, which contains extra again vertebrae, the hips, a part of the neck, and each femora (thigh bones). Fossils present in 2004
- In each specimens, the left pubis used to be discovered and used to be discovered to be the similar species
- Additionally discovered an remoted enamel
- Lived on a heat, semi-arid plan with shallow, brief lakes
- Different dinosaurs that lived round the similar time and position come with ornithomimosaurs like Beishanlong, tyrannosauroids like Xiongguanlong, the small neoceratopsians Archaeoceratops and Auroraceratops, hadrosaurs, and sauropods
Amusing Reality:
The smallest recognized Microraptor had a thigh bone not up to 5 cm (not up to 2 in) lengthy
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