In Depth Although only currently known from partial snout remains, it is still enough material to declare Oxalaia a spinosaurid due to the unique nature of the snout. Spinosaurid teeth were also known from the fossil site before the current material was discovered, and may have belonged to Oxalaia in life. With its total length … Read more
In Depth Although named from only partial remains, Karongasaurus is truly a dinosaur genus of the information age since its description was the first to be published solely online. The genus name Karongasaurus is in reference to the Karonga district of Malawi combined with the Ancient Greek for ‘lizard’. The species name is in honour … Read more
In Depth With study of Scelidosaurus going all of the way back until the mid-nineteenth century, Scelidosaurus is one of the oldest genera of dinosaur known. In addition to that, out of all the dinosaurs that are known from the British Isles, Scelidosaurus is represented by some of the most complete fossil material. Scelidosaurus was … Read more
In Depth When the dinosaur Afromimus was first described in 2017 it was as an ornithomimosaur, however a later study in 2019 led to Afromimus being described as an abelisaur, specifically a noasaurid. Unfortunately Afromimus is still only known from partial remains, making details of this dinosaur difficult to know for certain. Further Reading - … Read more
In Depth Named after the Andes Mountains, Andesaurus was a titanosaurian sauropod dinosaur from South America, but one known from only incomplete remains. This makes it hard to be certain about such things as a total size or even a preferred diet beyond just general plants. The vertebrae of Andesaurus though suggest that the genus … Read more
In Depth Glishades is a genus of hadrosauroid dinosaur that lived in North America during the late Cretaceous. Since a paper was published suggesting that Glishades is actually an indeterminate juvenile (Campione et al, 2012), the genus has become widely regarded as a nomen dubium. Further Reading - Glishades ericksoni, a new hadrosauroid (Dinosauria: Ornithopoda) … Read more
In Depth As with other Australian sauropods such as Wintonotitan and Diamantinasaurus, the skull and most of the vertebrae are unknown. What can be learned from the available material is that Austrosaurus had a fairly level back between its shoulders and hips with what appears to be only twenty centimetres height difference between the two. … Read more
In Depth It is hard to currently establish a size estimate for Arcusaurus because at the time of writing the genus is only represented by the partial remains of two juveniles. Not only does this make it impossible to run a tape measure along a known complete specimen, but as juvenile they would have grown … Read more
In Depth Zalmoxes was discovered when fossils that had been assigned to the genus Rhabdodon as R. robustus (originally robustum) were discovered to have different distinguishing features. This was actually the second time that the material had been re-named as initially it was known as a species of Mochlodon. Today Zalmoxes is described as an … Read more
In Depth Aviatyrannis was for lack of a better word tiny, although this small size is actually a hallmark of tyrannosaur ancestry. Although incomplete, the fossil remains of Aviatyrannis are very similar to another ancient tyrannosaur, Stokesosaurus, from North America. This has resulted in speculation that Aviatyrannis is actually a junior synonym of Stokesosaurus, and … Read more