I Know Dino Podcast: Fukuiraptor

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Episode 32 is all aboutFukuiraptor, a carnosaur first regarded as a raptor.

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Kind species is Fukiraptor kitadaniensis
Kind species was presumably a juvenile (round 4.2 m lengthy), (14 ft), 2m (6’6) tall

Though Fukiraptor is a carnosaur (like Allosaurus), at first it was regarded as a raptor as a result of when it was first discovered, one among its giant claws on its hand was regarded as the “killing claw” on its toe, just like different dromaeosaurs. However ultimately scientists decided that the claw belonged on its hand.

At first scientists thought the kind specimen was a juvenile, now they assume it could have been an grownup, since different specimens have since been present in the identical space, and a few have been juveniles that have been so much smaller
The idea is that Fukiraptor could have been small, or it could have been small at a younger age and would have grown a lot greater through the years, like tyrannosaurids (a more recent evaluation discovered it could be a tyrannosaurid)

Fukiraptor is probably the most full (and solely) theropod present in Japan, formally
Holotype is a partial skeleton (jaw fragments, enamel, vertebrae, bones from arms and hind limbs)
In 2000, Philip Currie (College of Alberta) and Yoichi Azume (Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum) described Fukuiraptor in a paper

Among the enamel had blood grooves, which have been discovered on Fukuiraptor enamel however not different theropod enamel from the Kitadani quarry
Tooth have been just like different carnosaurs, and had small serrations

In comparison with herbivore fossils within the Kitadani quarry, Fukuiraptor bones have been widespread

As a result of there are extra theropods within the quarry (which is uncommon), there could have been “some uncommon circumstances concerned within the genesis of the positioning”, For instance as a result of so many juvenile Fukuiraptors have been discovered, it could have been close to a nesting web site (one other instance of a quarry with a number of carnivore bones is the Cleveland-Lloyd quarry, which has greater than 70 Allosaurus people and should have been a predator lure); different websites with a number of carnivores have been as a result of drought (all died directly) or they raised the likelihood that they hunted in packs. Nevertheless it’s unclear why there are such a lot of theropods in Kitadani Quarry

Can see Fukuiraptor as an animatronic dinosaur within the Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum in Japan (together with 10 different animatronic dinosaurs)
Animatronic Fukuiraptor blinks and strikes its head, in addition to poses threateningly

Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum opened in 2000
Admission is 1200 JPY (~$10 USD)
One of many largest dinosaur museums in Japan, positioned in Katsuyama Metropolis, Fukui Prefecture (middle of dinosaur analysis in Japan)

Museum has 4 flooring
Close to the Kitadani Quarry, giant excavation web site, presumably one of many largest dinosaur quarries on the planet

Fukuiraptor is a megaraptoran neovenatorid allosaurid (however megaraptorans could also be tyrannosaurids), as of 2012 when Fernando Novas and colleagues

Megaraptora is a part of Neovenatoridae (based on 2010 and 2012 research), making neovenatorids one of many final kinds of allosaurids
Not less than one megaraptoran, Orkoraptor, lived on the finish of the Cretaceous

Neovenatoridae is a household of allosaurids. That they had quick, large shoulder blades
Enjoyable Reality: Trillions of eggs have been laid through the Mesozoic Period.

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