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In Depth Horopeta is a genus of whale that lived in the waters around New Zealand during the Oligocene. Further Reading - The Earliest Gulp-Feeding Mysticete (Cetacea: Mysticeti) from the Oligocene of New Zealand. - Journal of Mammalian Evolution. - C.-H. Tsai & R. E. Fordyce - 2015.
In Depth Soriatitan is a genus of sauropod dinosaur that lived in Spain during the early Cretaceous. Although only known from partial remains, Soriatitan has been identified as a brachiosaurid sauropod, with features seen in both European and North American brachiosaurid dinosaurs. Further Reading - A new Brachiosauridae Sauropod dinosaur from the lower Cretaceous of … Read more
In Depth Emyduranus is a genus of non-mammalian synapsid that lived in South Africa during the Permian. Further Reading - On some new genera and species of anomodont reptiles from the Karroo beds of South Africa. - Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 647-674. - Robert Broom - 1921.
In Depth Greererpeton did not follow the other tetrapods onto land, instead it remained as an aquatic predator. Support for this style of life comes from poorly developed hearing, evidence of a lateral line (sensory apparatus found in fish), reduced limbs and an extended spine giving it a more eel like appearance. This suggests that … Read more
In Depth Xianshou is a genus of allotherian mammal that lived in China during the late Jurassic. Further Reading - Three new Jurassic euharamiyidan species reinforce early divergence of mammals. - Nature 514:579-584. - S. Bi, Y. Wang, J. Guan, Z. Sheng & J. Meng - 2014.
In Depth Eopteranodon gets its name from how its jaws and crest look like those on the more famous pterosaur Pteranodon that existed later in the Cretaceous of North America. Eopteranodon however was not only much smaller than Pteranodon but it is actually of a different pterosaur family. Further Reading Further reading- New pterodactyloid pterosaur … Read more
In Depth Tubonasus is a genus of arthrodire placoderm fish that lived in Australia during the Late Devonian. Tubonasus is noted for having a long snout, however, Tubonasus did not take this to the extreme like in some genera such as Rolfosteus. Further Reading - Eubrachythoracid arthrodires with tubular rostra1 plates from Gogo, Western Australia. … Read more
In Depth Taveirosaurus is a tooth taxon of ornithischian dinosaur that lived in Portugal during the late Cretaceous. A tooth taxon is an animal that has only been described by teeth, and in the case of Taveirosaurus there have been many attempts to define what type of ornithiscian dinosaur that it was, almost always with … Read more
In Depth Noripterus appears to have been a scaled down version of the pterosaur Dsungaripterus complete with a more gracile build. However the discovery of a leg bone that was attributed to the new genus Phobetor in 1982 now casts doubts upon this. When studied again, along with further material attributed to Phobetor in 2009, … Read more
In Depth Pseudolagosuchus is a genus of dinosauromorph that live in South America during the Triassic. There has been past speculation that Pseudolagosuchus may actually be a synonym of Lewisuchus. Further Reading - Un nuevo Lagosuchidae (Thecodontia-Pseudosuchia) de la fauna de Los Cha�ares (Edad Reptil Cha�arense, Triasico Medio), La Rioja, Argentina [A new Lagosuchidae (Thecodontia-Pseudosuchia) … Read more