In Depth Kansaignathus is a genus of velociraptorine dromaeosaurid dinosaur that lived in Central Asia during the late Cretaceous. Further reading - A New Theropod Dinosaur (Theropoda, Dromaeosauridae) from the Late Cretaceous of Tajikistan. - Doklady Earth Sciences. 499 (1): 570–574. - A. O. Averianov & A. V. Lopatin - 2021.
In Depth Bisticeratops is a genus of chasmosaurine ceratopsian dinosaur that lived in North America during the late Cretaceous. First named from only a skull, Bisticeratops seems to have been quite typical of the chasmosaurine ceratopsians. Further Reading - A new chasmosaurine ceratopsid from the Upper Cretaceous (Campanian) Farmington Member of the Kirtland Formation, New … Read more
In Depth Menucocelsior is a genus of titanosaurian dinosaur that lived in South America during the late Cretaceous. Further reading - The sauropod record of Salitral Ojo del Agua: An Upper Cretaceous (Allen Formation) fossiliferous locality from northern Patagonia, Argentina. - Cretaceous Research. 129: 105029. - M. A. Rolando, J. A. Garcia Mars�, F. L. … Read more
Discovery and Early Reconstruction of Iguanodon Iguanodon has a firm place within dinosaur history books, not just because of the large expanse of fossil material attributed to it, but because it was the second dinosaur to ever be identified and named. The first dinosaur was actually Megalosaurus which was named a year earlier, and back then the term … Read more
In Depth Kurupi is a genus of abelisaurid dinosaur that lived in South America during the late Cretaceous. As an abelisaurid dinosaur we can infer what the missing parts of this dinosaur may have looked at by comparing it to better preserved genera. As such, Kurupi would have had fairly standard large theropod body proportions, … Read more
In Depth Rhomaleopakhus is a genus of mamenchisaurid sauropod dinosaur that lived in South-East Asia during the late Jurassic. Further reading - Re-assessment of the Late Jurassic eusauropod dinosaur Hudiesaurus sinojapanorum Dong, 1997, from the Turpan Basin, China, and the evolution of hyper-robust antebrachia in sauropods. - Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. - P. Upchurch, P. … Read more
In Depth Sierraceratops is a genus of ceratopsian dinosaur that lived in North America during the late Cretaceous. Sierraceratops is also considered to have been a chasmosaurine ceratopsian, the kind noted for having proportionately larger neck frills than other ceratopsian types. Further reading - The ceratopsian Torosaurus from the Upper Cretaceous McRae Formation, Sierra County, … Read more
In Depth Not much is known about the dinosaur Abdarainurus as the genus is based upon the description of several tail vertebrae. So far these vertebrae seem to be different to what are known in other late Cretaceous titanosaurs from Asia. Further Reading - An unusual new sauropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Mongolia. … Read more
In Depth about Saltasaurus The discovery of Saltasaurus was a revelation in that at least some titanosaurid sauropods actually had armour plates on their backs. These plates are actually called osteoderms and are bony growths that were within the skin, and in Saltasaurus these were ten to twelve centimetres across and seemed to form low conical spikes. These osteoderms had … Read more