In Depth Despite being known from only scant fossil material, Normannognathus seems to have been a dsungaripterid pterosaur, a group noted for specialising in shellfish. The teeth seem to have covered at least the entire front portion of the jaws with teeth being present in the tip, although it is unknown how far back they … Read more
In Depth Arminisaurus is a genus of pliosaurid plesiosaur that lived in Waters submerging what is now Germany during the early Jurassic. Arminisaurus is named after Arminius, a Germanic tribal chieftain who commanded the Germanic tribal alliance forces at the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest in which The Roman Empire suffered a major defeat. Further … Read more
In Depth Originally described as a species of Lagosuchus (L. lilloensis), when clear differences were noted in the limb proportions were noted the genus Marasuchus was created. Marasuchus was a dinosauriform, a kind of reptile that was on the evolutionary route to dinosaurs, but not a dinosaur yet. Further Reading - Dinosaurian precursors from the … Read more
In Depth The name Prosaurolophus was decided for this genus of hadrosaurid dinosaur on the basis that it was believed to have been similar to but lived before another genus called Saurolophus. However, this interpretation is now somewhat more controversial with different palaeontologists citing Prosaurolophus as being more closely related to other varying genera other … Read more
In Depth Archaerhineura is a genus of worm lizard that lived in North America during the Paleocene. Further Reading - Biogeography of worm lizards (Amphisbaenia) driven by end-Cretaceous mass extinction. - Proceedings of the Royal Society, B 282:20143034. - N. R. Longrich, J. Vinther, R. A. Pyron, D. Pisani & J. A. Gauthier - 2015.
In Depth A possible close relative of Saltasaurus, Yamanasaurus is a genus of titanosaurid dinosaur that lived in South America during the late Cretaceous. Yamanasaurus is also the very first dinosaur to be named from fossils discovered in Ecuador. Further Reading - The first dinosaur remains from the Cretaceous of Ecuador. Cretaceous Research. - S. … Read more
In Depth Further Reading - Galveosaurus herreroi, a new sauropod dinosaur from Villar del Arzobispo Formation (Tithonian-Berriasian) of Spain. - Zootaxa 1034: 1–20. - B�rbara S�nchez-Hern�ndez - 2005. - Un nuevo dinosaurio saur�podo, Galvesaurus herreroi gen. nov., sp. nov., del tr�nsito Jur�sico-Cret�cico en Galve (Teruel, NE de Espa�a). - Naturaleza Aragonesa 15: 4-17. - J. … Read more
In Depth The remains of Beishanlong are quite incomplete, but they do tell us that this was an ornithomimosaur and a particularly large one at that. The team of palaeontologists that described the first specimens came up with an estimated length of up to eight meters long, but further study yielded the discovery that the … Read more
In Depth Paludirex is a genus of crocodile that lived in Australia roughly during the Pliocene and Pleistocene periods. Further reading - Australia’s prehistoric ‘swamp king’: revision of the Plio-Pleistocene crocodylian genus Pallimnarchus de Vis, 1886. PeerJ. 8: e10466. - Jorgo Ristevski, Adam M. Yates, Gilbert J. Price, Ralph E. Molnar, Vera Weisbecker & Steven … Read more
In Depth Tonganosaurus is a genus of sauropod dinosaur that lived in China during the early Jurassic. Tonganosaurus is seen as being similar to Omeisaurus, and both are classified as mamenchisaurid sauropod dinosaurs (similar to Mamenchisaurus). Further Reading – [A new sauropod from the Lower Jurassic of Huili, Sichuan, China]. -Vertebrata PalAsiatica 48(3):185-202 - K. … Read more