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Episode 317: A compsognathid with a mane

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    Episode 317 is all about Protohadros, a hadrosauroid ornithopod discovered close to Dallas, Texas.

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    On this episode, we talk about:

    Information:

    • The brand new compsognathid, Ubirajara, was coated in easy fuzzy feathers, and some very lengthy ones supply

    • The publication of Ubirajara has sparked controversy over its export from Brazil to Germany supply
    • A person in Oakland, CA has been making and promoting dinosaur menorahs from dinosaur toys for just a few years supply
    • A sauropod statue was lit up in Glasgow, Virginia full with a purple bulb on its snout supply

    • Stirling Scotland has a brand new outside animatronic dinosaur exhibit supply
    • Common has made some new dinosaur animatronics for his or her upcoming Beijing Jurassic World attraction supply
    • Ark: Survival Developed is getting a sequel referred to as Ark II, the trailer options Vin Diesel preventing dinosaurs and hominids supply

    • A brand new article discusses how the cardboard recreation Dinosaurs Assault! was nearly made right into a film by Tim Burton supply
    • Brian Henson’s Dinosaurs is coming to Disney+ on January 29 supply
    • There’s a GoFundMe for Paleontologist Jim Kirkland to assist cowl some latest medical bills supply

    • A video of a supposed Triceratops getting off a truck in Thailand is certainly a puppet supply

    The dinosaur of the day: Protohadros

    • Ornithopod that lived within the Late Cretaceous in what’s now Texas, US

    • Lived about 95 million years in the past
    • Herbivorous
    • Cranium was about 28 in (70 cm) lengthy

    • Estimated to be 23 ft (7 m) lengthy and weigh 2 tons
    • Holotype discovered within the Woodbine Formation in Texas, and features a partial cranium, ribs, hand ungual and neural arch
    • Holotype was a subadult, so could have gotten greater

    • Not clear precisely the way it appeared primarily based on fragments discovered
    • Based mostly on paleoart, appears lots like Edmontosaurus in physique form
    • Hind legs had been most likely longer than the entrance legs

    • May transfer quadrupedally or bipedally
    • Had giant, deep decrease jaws, and snout turned down on the entrance
    • Presumably a low-browser, ate swamp crops that grew in delta streams (scooped up crops with its mouth)

    • May partially grind meals. Had pleurokinesis (cranial joint system) however the again of the cranium was nonetheless fairly motionless
    • Kind species is Protohadros byrdi
    • Gary Byrd discovered the ribs and ungual in 1994 at Flower Mound, Denton County in Texas, when he was analyzing a highway. He advised Yuong-Nam Lee, who organized the excavation

    • First reported in 1996 by Jason Head from Dedman Faculty of Humanities and Sciences, Southern Methodist College
    • Described and named in 1998 by Jason Head
    • Genus identify means “first hadrosaur”

    • Jason Head thought it was the oldest identified hadrosaur
    • Species identify is in honor of Gary Byrd
    • First regarded as essentially the most basal hadrosaurid, and on the time of discovery thought to indicate that hadrosaurids didn’t evolve in Asia, however now it’s thought-about to be a much less derived iguanodontian

    • Now thought-about to be a non-hadrosaurid iguanodontian, a basal member of Hadrosauroidea
    • In 1997 doable Protohadros tracks discovered, and named the ichnospecies Caririchnium protohadrosaurichnos
    • Habitat was a wooded marsh

    • Extra fossils from smaller people (presumably juveniles or subadults) discovered on the Arlington Archosaur Web site close to Dallas-Fort Value, Texas. They’re 30% to 50% smaller than the holotype
    • Lots of them had crocodile chunk marks
    • Can see a reconstruction of the cranium on the Perot Museum in Dallas, Texas

    Enjoyable Reality: Dinosaur coprolites have preserved a number of forms of parasites.

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