Episode 367: Another ankylosaur with battle wounds
Thank you so much to all our patrons! Join us at www.patreon.com/iknowdino for dinosaur requests, bonus content, ad-free episodes, and more. This episode was originally published on December 9, 2021. Subscribe to "I Know Dino" in your podcast app to get every new episode right when it's published. In dinosaur news this week: We discuss the Dinosaur Systematics & Colbert Prize sessions from the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology annual meeting; A new hadrosauriform, Brighstoneus, has been described from the Isle of Wight, UK; The Mary Anning Rocks campaign has submitted a planning application for a statue of Mary Anning and her dog; The Perot Museum of Nature and Science in Dallas, TX has a reconstructed Alamosaurus; The Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, Canada has a new gallery of Earth history including dinosaurs This week's dinosaur of the day is Anchisaurus Basal sauropodomorph that lived in the Early Jurassic in what is now Connecticut and Massachusetts, US (Portland Formation) Until recently considered to be a prosauropod Looked like a typical sauropodomorph, walked on two legs and had a long neck and tail Bipedal but could go on all fours Estimated to be 6.6 ft (2 m) long and weighed around 60 lb (27 kg) Marsh's Anchisaurus major (Ammosaurus, now considered to be Anchisaurus polyzelus) was between 8 to 13 ft ( 2.5 to 4 m) long and weighed up to 70 lb (32 kg) Gregory Paul estimated Anchisaurus to be 7.2 ft (2.2 m) long and weigh 44 lb (20 kg) Lived in an arid environment, with wet and dry seasons Had blunt teeth, probably ate plants But also had a large thumb claw, possibly for defense, or grabbing tree branches May have been an omnivore Thought to be a carnivore because of the claws. According to Richard Swan Lull in the 1950s, thought Anchisaurus was "an alert, active dinosaur preying upon the smaller vertebrates of his generation, as the powerful claws and well-developed teeth imply" Had hands that were proportionally short to its arms Fossils found very early, so has a long history In 1973, Peter Galton wrote about the prosauropods of North America (and the history of Anchisaurus) … read more at https://iknowdino.com/Anchisaurus-Episode-367/I Know Dino: The big #dinosaurpodcast. News, interviews, and discussions about #dinosaurs and dinosaur #science.
Thank you so much to all our patrons! Join us at www.patreon.com/iknowdino for dinosaur requests, bonus content, ad-free episodes, and more. This episode was originally published on December 9, 2021. Subscribe to "I Know Dino" in your podcast app to get every new episode right when it's published. In dinosaur news this week: We discuss the Dinosaur Systematics & Colbert Prize sessions from the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology annual meeting; A new hadrosauriform, Brighstoneus, has been described from the Isle of Wight, UK; The Mary Anning Rocks campaign has submitted a planning application for a statue of Mary Anning and her dog; The Perot Museum of Nature and Science in Dallas, TX has a reconstructed Alamosaurus; The Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, Canada has a new gallery of Earth history including dinosaurs This week's dinosaur of the day is Anchisaurus Basal sauropodomorph that lived in the Early Jurassic in what is now Connecticut and Massachusetts, US (Portland Formation) Until recently considered to be a prosauropod Looked like a typical sauropodomorph, walked on two legs and had a long neck and tail Bipedal but could go on all fours Estimated to be 6.6 ft (2 m) long and weighed around 60 lb (27 kg) Marsh's Anchisaurus major (Ammosaurus, now considered to be Anchisaurus polyzelus) was between 8 to 13 ft ( 2.5 to 4 m) long and weighed up to 70 lb (32 kg) Gregory Paul estimated Anchisaurus to be 7.2 ft (2.2 m) long and weigh 44 lb (20 kg) Lived in an arid environment, with wet and dry seasons Had blunt teeth, probably ate plants But also had a large thumb claw, possibly for defense, or grabbing tree branches May have been an omnivore Thought to be a carnivore because of the claws. According to Richard Swan Lull in the 1950s, thought Anchisaurus was "an alert, active dinosaur preying upon the smaller vertebrates of his generation, as the powerful claws and well-developed teeth imply" Had hands that were proportionally short to its arms Fossils found very early, so has a long history In 1973, Peter Galton wrote about the prosauropods of North America (and the history of Anchisaurus) … read more at https://iknowdino.com/Anchisaurus-Episode-367/I Know Dino: The big #dinosaurpodcast. News, interviews, and discussions about #dinosaurs and dinosaur #science.