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Episode 375 is all about Volkheimeria, a medium to small Early Jurassic sauropod that lived in what’s now Patagonia.
We additionally interview Joshua Mathews and Anne Weerda, Joshua is a PhD candidate at Northern Illinois College, Director of Paleontology, and Vice President of Analysis & Operations on the Burpee Museum. Anne is the Government Director on the Burpee Museum.
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On this episode, we focus on:
Information:
- A revision of Parvicursor reveals that two different alvarezsaurids, Ceratonykus & Linhenykus, could also be synonyms supply
- A brand new alvarezsaurid, Khulsanurus magnificus, was described from the Gobi Desert in Mongolia supply
- In keeping with a brand new research, dinosaurs most likely had some colour on their faces supply
- The World’s most full Triceratops is happening show on the Melbourne Museum supply
- Cathedral Metropolis, California is getting 11 life-sized dinosaur sculptures alongside freeway 111 supply
- Jurassic World: Dominion is doing crossovers with the Winter Olympics supply
The dinosaur of the day: Volkheimeria
- Eusauropod that lived within the Early Jurassic in what’s now Patagonia, Argentina (Cañadón Asfalto Formation)
- Appears like different sauropods, with a protracted neck and tail, and a stocky physique, and walked on all fours
- Had low, flat neural spines
- Estimated to be 29.5 ft (9 m) lengthy
- Weighed about the identical as a rhinoceros
- Herbivorous
- Sort and solely species is Volkheimeria chubutensis
- Described in 1979 by José Bonaparte
- Genus title means “of Volkheimer”
- Named after Wolfgang Volkheimer, a geologist and paleontologist
- Fossils discovered embrace a principally full pelvis and sacrum, caudal vertebrae, femur, and tibia
- Discovered near Piatnitzkysaurus and Patagosaurus
- Ilium (a part of the hip) was a lot shorter than that of Patagosaurus
- A 2017 research by Ignacio Alejandro Cerda and others checked out progress charges in sauropods, and primarily based on histology, discovered Volkheimeria had fast, sustained progress charges
- Had carefully spaced progress marks, which works with its comparatively small dimension
- Different dinosaurs that lived across the identical time and place embrace the sauropod Patagosaurus, and the megalosauroids Condorraptor and Piatnitzkysaurus
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