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 connection 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
- Harm to plenty of tails could imply the sauropodomorph Plateosaurus typically needed to reside with its accidents supply
- Lengthy necked dinosaurs did care! The basal sauropodomorph Lufengosaurus in all probability took care of and fed its younger supply
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The dinosaur of the day: Saichania
- Ankylosaurid dinosaur that lived within the Late Cretaceous in what’s now Mongolia and China
- Lived about 73 million years in the past
- Had a sturdy construct
- Walked on 4 legs, and had highly effective forelimbs
- Estimated to be about 16 to 23 ft (5 to 7 m) lengthy and weigh 1.5 to 2.2 tons (1.4 to 2 metric tons)
- Had a flat, low physique
- Physique was lined in osteoderms/armor
- Had rows of conical osteoderms on its again
- Had keeled osteoderms on the physique (triangular in form)
- Head lined in bulbous armor
- Had pyramid-shaped horns in the back of the cranium
- Had a broad cranium
- Had triangular horns on the cheeks
- Had a beak
- Had a tough palate, possibly to eat powerful vegetation
- Had small, leaf-shaped tooth
- Had a protracted tongue
- Had a large intestine
- Had a tail membership
- Had complicated air passages, which will have helped it quiet down the air it breathed
- Sort species is Saichania chulsanensis, however named based mostly on not many fossils (again half of the dinosaur will not be well-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 many armor (principally articulated)
- Fossils first discovered within the Seventies in Mongolia
- Named in 1977 by Teresa Maryanska
- Genus identify means “stunning one” in Mongolian
- Genus identify refers to how nicely the fossils had been preserved
- Species identify refers back to the provenance close to Chulsa, the place the fossils had been discovered
- Different specimens have been referred to Saichania, together with a juvenile skeleton and a few undescribed fossils
- Juvenile was described in 2011 by Kenneth Carpenter and others
- Nevertheless, in 2014 Victoria Arbour discovered that the skeleton was deceptive, and that the postcranial skeleton belonged to another ankylosaur, presumably Pinacosaurus
- Arbour additionally instructed a cranium thought to belong to Tarchia exemplar was Saichania
- However not everybody agrees, and a few scientists take into account the cranium to be Tarchia teresae
- Lived in a sizzling, dry atmosphere (a desert)
- Different dinosaurs that lived across the similar time and place embrace the pachycephalosaur Tylocephale and the ceratopsians Lamaceratops and Bagaceratops, and the ankylosaur Tarchia, in addition to alvarezsaurs and sauropods
- Different animals that lived across the similar time and place embrace lizards and mammals
Enjoyable Reality:
Collagen can final for almost 200 million years.
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