In Depth Kelumapusaura is a genus of hadrosaurid dinosaur that lived in South America during the late Cretaceous. The establishment of Kelumapusaura was born out of the discovery of a bone bed of at least several individuals. Further reading - A new hadrosaurid (Dinosauria: Ornithischia) from the Late Cretaceous of northern Patagonia and the radiation … Read more
In Depth Discovery and classification history of Saurophaganax Saurophaganax has a complicated taxonomic history due to the fact that it is still only known from very partial remains, some of which bear a strong resemblance to the smaller but more common Allosaurus. This history dates back to the discovery of the first material over 1931 … Read more
In Depth Kunmingosaurus is a genus of sauropod dinosaur that lived in China during the early Jurassic. Further Reading - The reptilian fauna of the Jurassic in China, by Zhao. - In, The Jurassic System of China, Wang, Cheng & Wang - 1985.
In Depth The description of the ceratopsian dinosaur Udanoceratops is based upon the discovery of an almost complete sixty centimetre long skull. This in turn led to size estimates for the missing body leading all the way up to four meters long; however it would be interesting to see how Udanoceratops compares to other later … Read more
In Depth Spiclypeus is a genus of ceratopsian dinosaur that lived in North America during the late Cretaceous. Further Reading - Spiclypeus shipporum gen. et sp. nov., a boldly audacious new chasmosaurine ceratopsid (Dinosauria: Ornithischia) from the Judith River Formation (Upper Cretaceous: Campanian) of Montana, USA. - PLoS ONE 11(5). - J. C. Mallon, C. … Read more
In Depth Tornieria fossils were first found in 1907 and described the next year by the German palaeontologist Eberhard Fraas. However, at this time Fraas decided to call the new genus Gigantosaurus, but the problem with this is that the name Gigantosaurus had already been used by Harry Govier Seeley to name a genus of … Read more
In Depth Struthiomimus remains were actually known all the way back to 1901, but were interpreted by Lawrence Lambe to belong to Ornithomimus altus, the first ornithomimid to be named. In 1917 however, Henry Fairfield Osborn (the man who is perhaps best remembered for naming Tyrannosaurus) identified key differences in the bones, especially the hands … Read more
In Depth Sometimes dubbed the ‘Asian Iguanodon’, Probactrosaurus is no way near as well-known as its older and far more famous relative (which was actually the second dinosaur genus named, and the first one named that ate plants). At roughly five and a half meters in length Probactrosaurus was actually quite small when compared to … Read more
In Depth At eight meters Gigantoraptor is the largest oviraptorid dinosaur currently known, and is many times larger than other members of the group. Problems that exist at the time of writing are the remains that while incomplete show two characteristics belonging to different lifestyles. What can be ascertained is that Gigantoraptor had a long … Read more
In Depth Dashanpusaurus is identified as a macronarian sauropod that might by related to the North American Camarasaurus, which means that it may have been a more specialised high browser. This fits in with another genus of sauropod from the Lower Shaximiao Formation called Abrosaurus that has also been considered to be a possible relative … Read more