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Episode 72 is all about Bagaceratops, a small ceratopsian that may make an awesome pet.
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On this episode, we talk about:
- The dinosaur of the day: Bagaceratops
- Identify means “small-horned face”
- Fossils discovered within the Seventies within the Gobi Desert, as a part of a joint expedition with Mongolian and Polish scientists
- Described in 1975 by Teresa Maryanska and Halszka Osmólska
- Discovered 5 full and 20 partial crania (skulls from completely different ages, juveniles and adults, and completely different sizes)
- Sort species is Bagaceratops rozhdestvenskyi
- Species title is in honor of Anatoly Konstantinovich Rozhdestvensky, a Russian paleontologist
- A juvenile Bagaceratops was renamed Bagaceratops in 2000 by Paul Sereno. It was first named Protoceratops kozlowskii after which renamed in 1990 to Breviceratops kozlowskii
- Carefully associated to Protoceratops
- Appeared much like Protoceratops, apart from the form of its head (Bagaceratops had a triangular formed head)
- Bagaceratops lived hundreds of thousands of years after Protoceratops however is taken into account to be extra primitive
- Primitive (despite the fact that it lived later), and small, like early ceratopsians
- Like Protoceratops, had a beak, no forehead horns, and a small horn on its snout
- Had a small frill, and a triangular cranium
- About 3.3 ft (1m) lengthy and weighed 50 lb (22 kg)
- Quadrupedal
- Entrance legs had been shorter than hind legs
- Herbivore, ate ferns, cycads and conifers
- Used its parrot-like beak to chew off leaves
- Additionally had cheek enamel, to grind up crops
- Can see Bagaceratops on the Paleobiological Institute in Warsaw, Poland
- Bagaceratops is a part of Ceratopsia
- Ceratopsia is a gaggle of herbivorous dinosaurs that lived in North America and Asia within the Cretaceous
- They’d parrot-like beaks and cheek enamel to eat fiberous vegetation
- They had been ornithiscians
- Additionally had a frill (used for protection, regulating physique temperature, attracting mates, or signaling hazard)
- In all probability traveled in herds and will then stampede if threatened
- Enjoyable reality: Garfield County in Montana is a vital space throughout the Hell Creek formation with a number of large T-rex, Triceratops, and different dinosaur finds. And regardless of having a land space 15 instances the dimensions of New York Metropolis’s 5 boroughs (Staten Island, Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens and Manhattan) it has nearly precisely 1/100,000th the inhabitants density with only one,280 folks.
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