In Depth Oceanotitan is a genus of titanisauriform dinosaur that lived in Western Europe during the late Jurassic. Further Reading - A new macronarian sauropod from the Upper Jurassic of Portugal. - Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology e1578782:1-23. - P. Mocho, R. Royo-Torres & F. Ortega - 2019.
In Depth Closely related to the massive predator Giganotosaurus, the discovery of seven Mapusaurus individuals in the same bone bed would question the notion that predatory dinosaurs were always solitary creatures. When the bone bed was excavated between 1997 and 2001, only the remains of Mapusaurus where found, and these individuals were all of different … Read more
In Depth Ocucajea is a genus of basilosaurid whale that lived in the waters around South America during the Eocene. Further Reading - New Middle Eocene Whales from the Pisco Basin of Peru. - Journal of Paleontology 85 (5): 955–69. - Mark D. Uhen, Nicholas D. Pyenson, Thomas J. Devries, Mario Urbina & Paul R. … Read more
In Depth Veterupristisaurus is a genus of carcharodontosaurid theropod dinosaur that lived in Africa during the late Jurassic. So far Veterupristisaurus is only known from a few vertebrae, but comparisons to Acrocanthosaurus have yielded an estimated range for the holotype individual of Veterupristisaurus of between eight and a half and ten meters in length. This … Read more
In Depth Sauropareion is a genus of small procolophonid reptile that lived in South Africa at the start of the Triassic period. Further Reading - A new Triassic procolophonoid reptile and its implications for procolophonoid survivorship during the Permo-Triassic extinction event. - Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 268 (1480): 2047–2052. - Sean … Read more
In Depth Traversodon is a genus of cynodont that lived in South America during the Triassic. Further Reading – Lieferung 2. Cynodontia [Part 2. Cynodontia] - Die Fossilen Reptilien des S�damerikanischen Gondwanalandes. Ergebnisse der Sauriergrabungen in S�dbrasilien 1928/29 [The Fossil Reptiles of South American Gondwanaland. Results of the Dinosaur Expeditions in southern Brazil 1928/29]. - … Read more
In Depth Coelacanths are one of the few creatures that typify animal life in the Mesozoic that are still alive today. Modern coelacanths are represented by the genus Latimeria that live in the deep waters of the Indian Ocean, the largest examples of which are known to easily attain lengths of two meters. Back in … Read more
In Depth Notosuchus was named in 1896 and was the first of what would become known as the notosuchian crocodiles that would be described to science. Attaining sizes up to one and a half meters in length, Notosuchus was small when compared to most other crocodiles, though itself still larger than most known notosuchian genera. … Read more
In Depth Initially described from a tibia (one of the lower leg bones), a second discovery in 2007 revealed much more of the skeleton of Condorraptor, allowing for a clearer picture of Condorraptor to come to light. Condorraptor was a mid-sized theropod that may have been similar to the famous Megalosaurus, the first dinosaur genus … Read more
In Depth With a length of four meters Doedicurus is easily one of the larger members of the glyptodonts, armoured herbivores that are related to modern day armadillos. Like other glyptodonts, Doedicurus had an armoured shell made from osteoderms that grew to surround its body. This shell was most strongly fixed around the pelvis, with … Read more