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Post by Talira Greycrest on Oct 6, 2020 23:31:06 GMT -8
I'm starting a "Dino of the Day!" thread. Every day I'll pick a dino and post all the important info about them. Got any dino-related questions? Feel free to post them here.
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Post by Talira Greycrest on Oct 7, 2020 0:56:01 GMT -8
Today's "Dino of the Day!" is the first one to be discovered in British Colombia, Canada: Ferrisaurus.
Pronunciation: Feh-re-sore-us Meaning of name: "Iron lizard" Species: F. sustutensis Size: Unknown due to a lack of fossils. Family: Leptoceratopsidae Diet: Herbivore. First fossils found: Known only from a single fragmentary skeleton discovered by Kenny F. Larsen in the Tango Creek Formation of British Colombia, Canada, in 1970. Named by Victoria Arbour and David Evans in 2019. Lived: 72.1 to 66 million years ago during the Maastrichtian stage of the Late Cretaceous in what is now British Colombia, Canada.
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Post by Talira Greycrest on Oct 7, 2020 23:01:09 GMT -8
Today's "Dino of the Day!": Galveosaurus.
Pronunciation: Gal-vee-oh-sore-us. Meaning of name: "Galve lizard", after the Spanish municipality where its fossils were discovered. Species: G. herreroi Size: Estimated to have measured around 16 metres long, 5 metres tall and weighing 2 metric tonnes. Family: Uncertain. Diet: Herbivore. Likely fed on both high and low-growing vegetation. First fossils found: Known only from a single, partial skeleton discovered in the Villar del Arzobispo Formation of eastern Spain sometime during the 1980's. Named by Bárbara Sánchez-Hernández in 2005. Lived: In what is now eastern Spain. Was originally thought to have lived between 152.1 and 139.8 million years ago during the Tithonian stage of the Late Jurassic through to the Berriasian stage of the Early Cretaceous, but is now believed to have lived during the Kimmeridgian and Tithonian stages of the Late Jurassic from 157.3 to 145 million years ago.
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Post by Talira Greycrest on Oct 8, 2020 22:25:50 GMT -8
Today's "Dino of the Day!": Echinodon.
Pronunciation: Eh-ky-no-don Meaning of name: "Hedgehog tooth", in reference to the serrations along the sides of its teeth. Species: E. becklesii Size: Estimated to have measured around 60cm long. Height and weight uncertain. Family: Heterodontosauridae. Diet: Herbivore/omnivore. First fossils found: Multiple jaw fragments discovered by Samuel Beckles on the Isle of Purbeck, southern England, sometime during the mid-1800's. Named by British palaeontologist, Sir Richard Owen, in 1861. Lived: 145 to 139.8 million years ago during the Berriasian stage of the Early Cretaceous in what is now southern England.
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Post by Talira Greycrest on Oct 9, 2020 22:44:58 GMT -8
Today's "Dino of the Day!" was named after a desert: Gobisaurus.
Pronunciation: Go-bee-sore-us. Meaning of name: "Gobi lizard", after the desert where its fossils were discovered. Species: G. domoculus Size: Estimated to have measured around 6 metres long and weighing 3.5 metric tonnes. Height uncertain. Family: Ankylosauridae. Diet: Herbivore. Fed on low-growing vegetation. First fossils found: Known only from a single, partial skeleton discovered by the Sino-Soviet expeditions in Mongolia's Gobi Desert in 1959-1960. Named by Matthew K. Vickaryous, Anthony P. Russell, Philip J. Currie and Xi-Jin Zhao in 2001. Lived: 93.9 to 89.8 million years ago during the Turonian stage of the Late Cretaceous in what is now southern Mongolia.
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Post by Talira Greycrest on Oct 10, 2020 23:13:13 GMT -8
Today's "Dino of the Day!" is a newly-discovered relative of T-Rex: Thanatotheristes
Pronunciation: Tha-na-to-the-riss-teez. Meaning of name: "Death reaper". Species: T. degrootorum Size: Adult size uncertain as the only known fossils belong to a sub-adult. Family: Tyrannosauridae. Diet: Carnivore. First fossils found: Known only from a single, partial skull discovered in the Foremost Formation of Alberta, Canada, in 2010. Named by Jared T. Voris, Francois Therrien, Darla K. Zelenitzky and Caleb M. Brown in 2020. Lived: 80.1 to 79.5 million years ago during the Campanian stage of the Late Cretaceous in what is now western Canada.
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Post by Talira Greycrest on Oct 11, 2020 22:36:37 GMT -8
Today's "Dino of the Day!" is another of T-Rex's cousins: Alioramus
Pronunciation: Ah-lee-oh-ray-mus Meaning of name: "Different branch" Species: A. remotus, A. altai Size: Adult size uncertain as the only known fossils belong to either juveniles or sub-adults. Family: Tyrannosauridae Diet: Carnivore First fossils found: Originally known only from a partial skull and some foot bones discovered by a joint Soviet-Mongolian expedition in the Nemegt Formation of Mongolia's Gobi Desert in the early 1970's. A. remotus named by Russian palaeontologist, Sergei Kurzanov, in 1976. A more complete skeleton was discovered in 2001. A. altai named by American palaeontologist, Stephen Louis Brusatte, in 2009. Lived: 70 million years ago during the Maastrichtian stage of the Late Cretaceous in what is now southern Mongolia.
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Post by Talira Greycrest on Oct 13, 2020 0:06:26 GMT -8
Today's "Dino of the Day!": Kangnasaurus
Pronunciation: Kang-nah-sore-us Meaning of name: "Farm Kangnas lizard" Species: K. coetzeei Size: Unknown due to a lack of fossils. Family: Dryosauridae. Diet: Herbivore. Likely fed on low-growing vegetation. First fossils found: Known only from a single tooth discovered at Farm Kangnas, Cape Province, South Africa (date of discovery uncertain). Named by South African palaeontologist, Sidney Henry Haughton, in 1915. Some vertebrae and partial hind legs have also been discovered, but it's yet to be confirmed whether or not they belong to this species. Lived: 125 to 113 million years ago during the Aptian stage of the Early Cretaceous in what is now South Africa.
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Post by Talira Greycrest on Oct 13, 2020 23:04:22 GMT -8
Today's "Dino of the Day!": Nankangia.
Pronunciation: Nan-kang-e-ah Meaning of name: Named after Nankang County, Jiangxi Province, southeastern China, where its fossils were discovered. Species: N. jiangxiensis Size: Estimated to have measured around 2.5 metres long. Height and weight uncertain. Family: Oviraptoridae. Diet: Unknown. First fossils found: Known only from a single, partial skeleton discovered by a farmer in the Nanxiong Formation of southeastern China in 2010. Named by Chinese palaeontologists, Lü Junchang, Yi Laiping, Zhong Hui and Wei Xuefang in 2013. Lived: 72.1 to 66 million years ago during the Maastrichtian stage of the Late Cretaceous in what is now southeastern China.
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Post by April on Oct 14, 2020 20:15:41 GMT -8
I honestly did not know that there were so many of these "unknown" dinosaurs that existed. Interesting, thanks for starting this up Talira Greycrest!
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Post by Talira Greycrest on Oct 14, 2020 22:22:58 GMT -8
Over 700 different species of dinosaurs have been discovered so far and palaeontologists think it's likely there are many more species still waiting to be found. We may never know how many there were.
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Post by Talira Greycrest on Oct 14, 2020 23:46:50 GMT -8
Today's "Dino of the Day!" has a very difficult-to-pronounce name: Huehuecanauhtlus
Pronunciation: Hway-hway-can-a-uh-tlus Meaning of name: "Ancient duck" Species: H. tiquichensis Size: Unknown due to a lack of fossils, but is estimated to have measured between 5 and 6 metres long. Family: Uncertain. Primitive Hadrosaurid. Diet: Herbivore. First fossils found: Known only from a fragmentary skull and a partial skeleton discovered in Michoacan, Mexico, in 2003. Named by A. A. Ramírez-Velasco, M. Benammi, A. Prieto-Marquez, J. Alvarado Ortega and R. Hernández-Rivera in 2012. Lived: 86.3 to 83.6 million years ago during the Santonian stage of the Late Cretaceous in what is now western Mexico.
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Post by Talira Greycrest on Oct 15, 2020 22:34:42 GMT -8
Contrary to popular belief, today's "Dino of the Day!" isn't, technically, a dinosaur. It's actually a Pterosaur: Pteranodon. Pterosaurs were a diverse group of winged reptiles that lived alongside dinosaurs.
Pronunciation: Teh-ran-oh-don Meaning of name: "Winged and toothless" Species: P. longiceps Wingspan: Males had an estimated wingspan of between 5 and 7 metres. The wingspan for females is estimated to have measured between 3 and 4 metres. Weight estimated between 20 and 90kgs. Family: Pteranodontidae Diet: Piscivore First fossils found: Known from dozens of specimens, most of which are partial skeletons. First discovered by American palaeontologist, Othniel Charles Marsh, in the Niobrara Chalk Formation of western Kansas, in 1870. Named by Mr. Marsh in 1876. A distinguishing feature of this Pterosaur was the crest on its head, which was probably used for display. Pteranodon was the largest-known Pterosaur until the discovery of Quetzalcoatlus in 1971. Lived: 89.8 to 72.1 million years ago during the Coniacian, Santonian and Campanian stages of the Late Cretaceous in what is now the midwestern, south-eastern and western United States.
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Post by Talira Greycrest on Oct 16, 2020 23:18:14 GMT -8
Today's "Dino of the Day!": Ajkaceratops.
Pronunciation: Oy-kah-seh-rah-tops Meaning of name: "Ajka horned face", after the Hungarian town of Ajka, near where its fossils were discovered. Species: A.kozmai Size: Unknown due to a lack of fossils. Family: Bagaceratopsidae. Diet: Herbivore. Fed on low-growing vegetation. First fossils found: Known only from a few skull fragments discovered in the Csehbanya Formation of western Hungary in 2009. Named by Attila Osi, Richard J. Butler and David B. Weishampel in 2010. Lived: 86 to 84 million years ago during the Santonian stage of the Late Cretaceous in what is now western Hungary.
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Post by Talira Greycrest on Oct 17, 2020 23:39:40 GMT -8
Today's "Dino of the Day!" is another one that, technically, isn't a dinosaur. It's a marine reptile: Cymbodpondylus.
Pronunciation: Sim-boe-spon-dil-lus Meaning of name: "Boat spine" Species: C. piscosus, C. buchseri, C. nichollsi and C. duelferi Size: Depending on species, measured between 6 and 10 metres long and weighing 4 metric tonnes. Family: Cymbospondylidae. Diet: Piscivore. First fossils found: Known from several specimens discovered in Germany and the western United States. C. piscosus named by American palaeontologist, Joseph Mellick Leidy, in 1868. C. buchseri named in 1989. C. nichollsi named in 2006. C. duelferi named in 2020. Lived: Depending on species, lived from 240 to 210 million years ago during the Ladinian stage of the Middle Triassic through to the Norian stage of the Late Triassic in what is now Germany and the western United States.
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