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Post by Talira Greycrest on Oct 19, 2020 1:12:20 GMT -8
Today's "Dino of the Day!": Rhinorex
Pronunciation: Ry-no-rex Meaning of name: "Nose king" Species: R. condrupus Size: Estimated to have measured around 9 metres long and weighing 3.5 metric tonnes. Height unknown. Family: Saurolophinae. Diet: Herbivore. First fossils found: Known only from a single, partial skeleton discovered by Brian Anderson and Roger Wagerle in the Neslen Formation of central Utah, in 1992. Named by T. A. Gates and R. Scheetz in 2014. Lived: 75 million years ago during the Campanian stage of the Late Cretaceous in what is now the western United States.
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Post by Talira Greycrest on Oct 20, 2020 1:39:26 GMT -8
Today's entry is another marine reptile: Eonatator.
Pronunciation: E-oh-na-ta-tor Meaning of name: "Dawn swimmer" Species: E. sternbergii, E. coellensis. Size: Depending on species, measured between 2 and 3 metres long. Weight uncertain. Family: Mosasauridae Diet: Carnivore/piscivore First fossils found: Known from several individuals. First discovered by America palaeontologist, Charles H. Sternberg, in the Niobrara Formation of Kansas in 1918. Named by N. Bardet, X. Pereda Suberbiola, M. Iarochene, B. Bouya and M. Amaghaz in 2005. Additional specimens have been discovered in Sweden and Colombia Lived: Depending on the species, lived between 89.8 and 72.1 million years ago during the Coniacian, Santonian and Campanian stages of the Late Cretaceous in the warm oceans that once covered what is now Colombia, Sweden and the midwestern United States.
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Post by Talira Greycrest on Oct 20, 2020 23:32:16 GMT -8
Today's "Dino of the Day!": Utahceratops
Pronunciation: U-tah-seh-rah-tops Meaning of name: "Utah horned face" Species: U. gettyi Size: Between 5 and 7 metres long, 2 metres high and weighing between 3 and 4 metric tonnes. Family: Chasmosaurinae (a sub-family of Ceratopsidae) Diet: Herbivore. Fed on low-growing vegetation. First fossils found: Known from at least six individuals. First discovered in the Kaiparowits Formation of southern Utah in 2010. Named in the same year by S. D. Sampson, M. A. Loewen, A. A. Farke, E. M. Roberts, C. A. Forster, J. A. Smith and A.L. Titus. Lived: 76.4 to 75.5 million years ago during the Campanian stage of the Late Cretaceous in what is now the western United States.
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Post by Talira Greycrest on Oct 21, 2020 23:11:09 GMT -8
Today's "Dino of the Day!": Yuanmousaurus
Pronunciation: Yu-an-mow-sore-us Meaning of name: "Yuanmou lizard" Species: Y. jingyiensis Size: 17 metres long and weighing 20 metric tonnes. Height uncertain. Family: Mamenchisauridae. Diet: Herbivore. Likely fed on both high and low-growing vegetation. First fossils found: Known only from a single, partial skeleton discovered in the Zhanghe Formation of Yunnan Province, southwest China, in 2000. Named by J. Lü, S. Li, G. Wang, J. Zhang and Z. Dong in 2006. Lived: 174.1 to 163.5 million years ago during the entire Middle Jurassic (Aalenian, Bajocian, Bathonian and Callovian stages) in what is now southwest China.
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Post by Talira Greycrest on Oct 23, 2020 1:23:50 GMT -8
Today's "Dino of the Day!": Zapsalis
Pronunciation: Za-sah-lis Meaning of name: "Thorough scissors" Species: Z. abradens Size: Unknown due to a lack of fossils. Family: Dromaeosauridae Diet: Carnivore First fossils found: Known only from a handful of teeth discovered in the Dinosaur Park Formation of Alberta, Canada, and the Judith Formation of Montana. Named by American palaeontologist, Edward Drinker Cope, in 1876. Lived: 75 million years ago during the Campanian stage of the Late Cretaceous in what is now western Canada and the northwestern United States.
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Post by Talira Greycrest on Oct 24, 2020 1:51:42 GMT -8
Today's "Dino of the Day!": Zephyrosaurus
Pronunciation: Zef-i-row-sore-us. Meaning of name: "West-wind lizard" Species: Z. schaffi Size: Estimated to have measured around 1.8 metres long, 0.5 metres tall and weighing around 20kgs. Family: Orodrominae (a sub-family of Parksosauridae). Diet: Herbivore. Fed on low-growing vegetation. First fossils found: Known only from a single, fragmentary skeleton discovered by Charles R. Schaff in the Cloverly Formation of Montana (date of discovery uncertain). Named by American palaeontologist, Hans-Dieter Sues, in 1980. Lived: 113 to 100.5 million years ago during the Albian stage of the Early Cretaceous in what is now the western United States.
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Post by Talira Greycrest on Oct 25, 2020 0:59:29 GMT -8
Today's "Dino of the Day!": Weewarrasaurus
Pronunciation: We-wah-rah-sor-us. Meaning of name: "Wee Warra lizard", after the place where its fossils were discovered. Species: W. pobeni Size: Unknown due to a lack of fossils. Family: Uncertain. Likely Ornithopod. Diet: Herbivore First fossils found: Known only from two partial lower jaws discovered in the Griman Creek Formation of northern New South Wales, Australia, in 2013. Named by Australian palaeontologists, Phil R. Bell, Matthew C. Herne, Tom Brougham and Elizabeth T. Smith in 2018. Lived: 100 million years ago during the Cenomanian stage of the Late Cretaceous in what is now eastern Australia.
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Post by Talira Greycrest on Oct 26, 2020 1:19:00 GMT -8
Today's "Dino of the Day!": Jaxartosaurus
Pronunciation: Jax-art-o-sore-us. Meaning of name: "Jaxartes lizard", after the Jaxartes River in Central Asia. Species: J. aralensis Size: Unknown due to a lack of fossils, but is estimated to have measured around 9 metres long. Family: Lambeosaurinae (a sub-family of Hadrosauridae) Diet: Herbivore First fossils found: Known only from a skull roof and braincase discovered in Kazakhstan (date of discovery uncertain). Named by Anatoly Nikolaenvich Riabinin in 1938. Lived: 89.8 to 83.6 million years ago during the Coniacian and Santonian stages of the Late Cretaceous in what is now Kazakhstan.
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Post by Talira Greycrest on Oct 27, 2020 1:33:18 GMT -8
Today's "Dino of the Day!": Hanssuesia
Pronunciation: Han-sues-e-ah Meaning of name: Named after American palaeontologist, Hans-Dieter Sues Species: H. sternbergi Size: Uncertain, but is estimated to have measured around 2 metres long. Family: Pachycephalosauridae. Diet: Herbivore. Fed on low-growing vegetation. First fossils found: Known from a number of partial specimens, mostly partial skulls, discovered in the Dinosaur Park Formation of Alberta, Canada, as well as the Oldman and Judith River Formations of Montana. First discovered by American-Canadian palaeontologist, Charles Mortram Sternberg, in 1928. Named by Robert M. Sullivan in 2003. Was originally thought to be a species of Stegoceras. Lived: 76 to 75 million years ago during the Campanian stage of the Late Cretaceous in what is now western Canada and the northwestern United States.
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Post by Talira Greycrest on Oct 28, 2020 1:21:28 GMT -8
Today's entry is a Plesiosaur: Fresnosaurus
Pronunciation: Frez-noe-sore-us. Meaning of name: "Fresno lizard" Species: F. drescheri Size: Estimated to have measured around 12 metres long. Weight unknown. Family: Elasmosauridae. Diet: Piscivore. First fossils found: Known only from the single, partial skeleton of a sub-adult discovered in the Moreno Formation of California in 1943. Named in the same year by Samuel Paul Welles. Lived: 72.1 to 66 million years ago during the Maastrichtian stage of the Late Cretaceous in the warm oceans that once covered the Pacific Region of the United States.
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Post by Talira Greycrest on Oct 29, 2020 1:30:15 GMT -8
Today's "Dino of the Day!": Valdosaurus
Pronunciation: Val-doe-sore-us Meaning of name: "Weald lizard" Species: V. canaliculatus Size: Estimated to have measured between 4 and 5 metres long and weighed around 60kgs. Height uncertain. Family: Dryosauridae. Diet: Herbivore. Fed on low-growing vegetation. First fossils found: First discovered by Reverend William Darwin Fox on the Isle of Wight, England, sometime during the 19th century. Named by American palaeontologist, Peter Malcolm Galton, in 1977. Was originally thought to be a species of Dryosaurus. Lived: 145 to 125 million years ago from the Berriasian stage through to the Barremian stage of the Early Cretaceous in what is now the Isle of Wight.
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Post by Talira Greycrest on Oct 29, 2020 23:05:14 GMT -8
Today's entry is a marine reptile: Qianichthyosaurus
Pronunciation: Kwan-ick-thee-o-sore-rus Meaning of name: "Qian fish lizard" Species: Q. zhoui, Q. xingyiensis Size: Estimated to have measured around 1.5 metres long. Weight uncertain. Family: Toretocnemidae Diet: Piscivore First fossils found: Known from the partial skeletons of several individuals, the first of which was discovered in the Falang Formation of Guizhou Province, southeastern China (date of discovery uncertain). Named by C. Li in 1999. Lived: Depending on species, lived from 237 to 227 million years ago during the Carnian stage of the Late Triassic in the warm oceans that once covered what is now southeastern China.
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Post by Talira Greycrest on Oct 31, 2020 3:48:40 GMT -8
Today's "Dino of the Day!": Lanzhousaurus
Pronunciation: Lan-zoo-sor-us Meaning of name: "Lanzhou lizard". Species: L. magnidens Size: Estimated to have measured between 9 and 10 metres long, 3 metres tall (between 5 and 6 metres when standing upright) and weighing 6 metric tonnes. Family: Uncertain. Possible Iguanodontid. Diet: Herbivore. Likely fed on both high and low-growing vegetation. First fossils found: Known only from a single, partial skeleton discovered in Gansu Province, northwest China (date of discovery uncertain). Named by H. You, Q. Ji and D. Li in 2005. Lived: 129.4 to 125 million years ago during the Barremian stage of the Early Cretaceous in what in now northwest China.
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Post by Talira Greycrest on Nov 1, 2020 1:12:29 GMT -8
Today's "Dino of the Day!": Sciurumimus.
Pronunciation: Se-ur-u-my-mus Meaning of name: "Squirrel mimic" Species: S. albersdoerferi Size: Adult size uncertain as the only known fossils belong to a juvenile. Family: Uncertain. Diet: Carnivore/Insectivore First fossils found: Known only from the single, complete skeleton of a juvenile discovered in a limestone quarry in Lower Bavaria, eastern Germany, in 2009. Named by Oliver W. M. Rauhut, Christian Foth, Helmut Tischlinger and Mark A. Norell in 2012. An interesting feature of this dino are the feather-like filaments on its tail, which appear to have given the tail a "bushy" appearance, like the tail of a squirrel. Lived: 157.3 to 152.1 million years ago during the Kimmeridgian stage of the Late Jurassic in what is now eastern Germany.
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Post by Talira Greycrest on Nov 1, 2020 23:36:37 GMT -8
Today's "Dino of the Day!": Kakuru
Pronunciation: Ka-ku-ru Meaning of name: Named after the Rainbow Serpent in Aboriginal mythology. Species: K. kujani Size: Unknown due to a lack of fossils, but is estimated to have measured between 2 and 3 metres long. Family: Unknown Diet: Unknown. Possibly carnivorous. First fossils found: Known only from a single, opalised lower leg bone discovered in the opal fields of Andamooka, South Australia, sometime during the early 1970s. Named by Australian palaeontologists, Ralph Molnar and Neville Pledge in 1980. Lived: 125 to 113 million years ago during the Aptian stage of the Early Cretaceous in what is now South Australia.
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