The Paleontology Thread

[GodzillaFan1990's]

Another cave lion cub found frozen alongside a wolf's head.

http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201 ... IL58aKT8Ck

[Rhedosaurus]

15 ton elasmosaur found in Antarctica was the largest of all plesiosaurs.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/scie ... gVKst1WbiM


More dinosaur bones have been found in Colorado in the place where the one Torosaurus fossil was found 2 years ago.

https://denver.cbslocal.com/2019/06/06/ ... o.facebook

[ROMG4]

15 ton elasmosaur found in Antarctica was the largest of all plesiosaurs.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/scie ... gVKst1WbiM


More dinosaur bones have been found in Colorado in the place where the one Torosaurus fossil was found 2 years ago.

https://denver.cbslocal.com/2019/06/06/ ... o.facebook

Haha! I remember years ago when a prevailing theory was that the Plesiosaur species was mostly extinct by the time of the KT extinction

Also they need to name it Rhedosauru

[Rhedosaurus]

It looks like dinosaurs could see in some color after all.

http://www.sci-news.com/paleontology/di ... 4lPuW6MTCc


Those new dinosaur bones in Colorado were those of Triceratops.

https://ktvq.com/news/trending/2019/06/ ... SXMNUzxVhs

[Gawdziller1954]

15 ton elasmosaur found in Antarctica was the largest of all plesiosaurs.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/scie ... gVKst1WbiM


More dinosaur bones have been found in Colorado in the place where the one Torosaurus fossil was found 2 years ago.

https://denver.cbslocal.com/2019/06/06/ ... o.facebook

Haha! I remember years ago when a prevailing theory was that the Plesiosaur species was mostly extinct by the time of the KT extinction

Also they need to name it Rhedosauru

PLIOSAURS were mainly gone by the KT event. Plesiosaurs prospered up until the very end. Aristonectes was basically the Plesiosaurian equivalent of a baleen whale, with a shorter neck than usual small teeth designed for filter feeding.

[master_of_monsters]

I hope more spinosaurus fossils surface

[Rhedosaurus]

15 ton elasmosaur found in Antarctica was the largest of all plesiosaurs.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/scie ... gVKst1WbiM


More dinosaur bones have been found in Colorado in the place where the one Torosaurus fossil was found 2 years ago.

https://denver.cbslocal.com/2019/06/06/ ... o.facebook

Haha! I remember years ago when a prevailing theory was that the Plesiosaur species was mostly extinct by the time of the KT extinction

Also they need to name it Rhedosauru

PLIOSAURS were mainly gone by the KT event. Plesiosaurs prospered up until the very end. Aristonectes was basically the Plesiosaurian equivalent of a baleen whale, with a shorter neck than usual small teeth designed for filter feeding.

There were 3 kinds of pliosaurs still living in the Cretaceous, but these were fairly uncommon.

[SoggyNoodles2016]

Haha! I remember years ago when a prevailing theory was that the Plesiosaur species was mostly extinct by the time of the KT extinction

Also they need to name it Rhedosauru

PLIOSAURS were mainly gone by the KT event. Plesiosaurs prospered up until the very end. Aristonectes was basically the Plesiosaurian equivalent of a baleen whale, with a shorter neck than usual small teeth designed for filter feeding.

There were 3 kinds of pliosaurs still living in the Cretaceous, but these were fairly uncommon.

Unless I'm missing something, basically all the Cretaceous pliosaurs like Kronosaurus lived BEFORE the Maastrichtian, aka the epoch of the KT extinction

[Rhedosaurus]

PLIOSAURS were mainly gone by the KT event. Plesiosaurs prospered up until the very end. Aristonectes was basically the Plesiosaurian equivalent of a baleen whale, with a shorter neck than usual small teeth designed for filter feeding.

There were 3 kinds of pliosaurs still living in the Cretaceous, but these were fairly uncommon.

Unless I'm missing something, basically all the Cretaceous pliosaurs like Kronosaurus lived BEFORE the Maastrichtian, aka the epoch of the KT extinction

Barring a new discovery, yes. That is indeed the case.

[SoggyNoodles2016]

There were 3 kinds of pliosaurs still living in the Cretaceous, but these were fairly uncommon.

Unless I'm missing something, basically all the Cretaceous pliosaurs like Kronosaurus lived BEFORE the Maastrichtian, aka the epoch of the KT extinction

Barring a new discovery, yes. That is indeed the case.

Oh, ok. That is fascinating then.

[Rhedosaurus]

Unless I'm missing something, basically all the Cretaceous pliosaurs like Kronosaurus lived BEFORE the Maastrichtian, aka the epoch of the KT extinction

Barring a new discovery, yes. That is indeed the case.

Oh, ok. That is fascinating then.

IIRC, I think the last one existed in the Cenomanian or Turounian. One of those two, however you say them.

[Manuelito Canelito]

Barring a new discovery, yes. That is indeed the case.

Oh, ok. That is fascinating then.

IIRC, I think the last one existed in the Cenomanian or Turounian. One of those two, however you say them.

Yeah,Turonian stage it's the most likely time when they dissapeared

Megacephalosaurus, which lived 89 million years ago, is noted to be one of the last pliosaurs

[Dino-Mario]

This is Vespersaurus, a new theropod from Brazil which lived in the desert and had a functionally monodactyl foot anatomy, where the singularly large third digit would have borne most of the weight while walking. Esentially, it supported a good deal of its weight on a single toe.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/scie ... ngle-toes/

[Rhedosaurus]

A 150 million year old dromaeosaur, the oldest found to date, that found in Wyoming has been named and described as Hesperornithoides miessleri. The actual fossil's name is Lori.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/scie ... F-iu5WMyHc

[SoggyNoodles2016]

A 150 million year old dromaeosaur, the oldest found to date, that found in Wyoming has been named and described as Hesperornithoides miessleri. The actual fossil's name is Lori.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/scie ... F-iu5WMyHc

Interesting discovery! However, according to the official paper, Lori is currently thought to be a troodontid, not a dromeaosaur. But I guess "That one smart dinosaur cousin" doesn't sell as well as "Velociraptor cousin"

[Rhedosaurus]

A 150 million year old dromaeosaur, the oldest found to date, that found in Wyoming has been named and described as Hesperornithoides miessleri. The actual fossil's name is Lori.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/scie ... F-iu5WMyHc

Interesting discovery! However, according to the official paper, Lori is currently thought to be a troodontid, not a dromeaosaur. But I guess "That one smart dinosaur cousin" doesn't sell as well as "Velociraptor cousin"

My bad.

In any case...Another paleo find. A new relative of Dilophosaurus found in Switzerland has been named and described as Notatesseraeraptor frickensis.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559- ... nbK9LAAqok

[Rhedosaurus]

An 80 million year old hadrosaur found in Texas has been named and described as Aquilarhinus palimentus. It's related to Kritosaurus and Gryposaurus.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technolo ... gM?ocid=sf

[Rhedosaurus]

More proof from Mongolia that theropod dinosaurs guarded their nests.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02174-7

[Rhedosaurus]

Has any fossil remains of Late Cretaceous titanosaurs besides Alamosaurus been found in North America or was Alamosaurus really the last sauropod standing in North America?

[Gawdziller1954]

Has any fossil remains of Late Cretaceous titanosaurs besides Alamosaurus been found in North America or was Alamosaurus really the last sauropod standing in North America?

I don't think there have been any remains of Lae Cretaceous American Sauropods in North America other than Alamosaurus.