In Depth As a macronarian sauropod, Tehuelchesaurus is thought to have had a body form better for reaching up to high growing vegetation rather than sweeping across a broad area to browse upon low growing vegetation like a diplodocid. Although only known from South America, Tehuelchesaurus is actually thought to be very similar in form … Read more
In Depth Like with Saltasaurus, Maxakalisaurus is a titanosaur known to have had bony plates called osteoderms (scutes) in the skin for additional protection from harm. The post cranial skeleton of Maxakalisaurus also hints at a relationship to other aeolsaurid genera such as Aeolosaurus, Gondwanatitan. Maxakalisaurus is one of the largest dinosaurs known to have … Read more
In Depth Leaellynasaura has been named after the daughter of its discoverers (the amicagraphica part recognises the Friends of the Museum of Victoria and the National Geographic Society which supplied funding for the research), and represents a dinosaur that was adapted to life in the Antarctic conditions of the early Cretaceous. Although back then the … Read more
In Depth Isanosaurus is recognised as being one of the first sauropods to appear on the planet, replacing the previous earliest sauropod title holder Vulcanodon. It should be mentioned here that at the time Vulcanodon was thought to have lived in the early Hettangian stage of the Jurassic, just after the Triassic/Jurassic boundary, though a … Read more
In Depth Pradhania is a genus of sauropodomorph dinosaur that lived in what is now India during the Early Jurassic. Later analysis of the genus has interpreted Pradhania as massospondylid. Pradhania likely shared the same habitat as the genus Lamplughsaura which is also known from the same formation. Further Reading - Basal sauropodomorphs (Dinosauria, Saurischia) … Read more
In Depth Tendaguria is a genus of sauropod dinosaur that lined in Africa during the late Jurassic. At the time of writing Tendaguria is only known from a few vertebrae, but analysis of this show a similarity to the Australian Wintonotitan. Further Reading - Review of Janenschia Wild, with the description of a new sauropod … Read more
In Depth Paraxenisaurus is a genus of deinocheirid dinosaur that lived in Mexico during the late Cretaceous. Deinocheirid dinosaurs like Paraxenisaurus are a special sub group of ornithomimosaurs that are more similar to the Deinocheirus genus (Deinocheirus was for a long time known only from a gigantic pair of arms until the early twenty-first century … Read more
In Depth Panphagia has been popularly perceived to have been an omnivore, an analysis based upon examination of the teeth. This is mainly because the teeth towards the rear of the mouth are broader and leaf shaped, better suited for slicing through plant material. The teeth at the front however are still better for processing … Read more
In Depth Along with Yinlong, Stenopelix appears to have been one of the earliest members of the ceratopsian group of dinosaur. Unfortunately because the skull was not preserved no one knows exactly how far along the beak and neck frill had developed, in fact the identification of Stenopelix as a ceratopsian dinosaur was based upon … Read more
In Depth Leyesaurus is a genus of small sauropodomorph dinosaur that lived in South America around the early Jurassic. Predatory threats to Leyesaurus would have mostly come from theropod dinosaurs. Further Reading - A new basal sauropodomorph (Dinosauria: Saurischia) from Quebrada del Barro Formation (Marayes-El Carrizal Basin), Northwestern Argentina. - PLoS ONE 6(11):e26964:1-19. - C. … Read more