In Depth Ceratosuchops is a genus of spinosaurid dinosaur that lived in the British Isles during the early Cretaceous. Ceratosuchops was named alongside another spinosaurid dinosaur from Britain called Riparovenator. Further reading - New spinosaurids from the Wessex Formation (Early Cretaceous, UK) and the European origins of Spinosauridae. - Scientific Reports. 11 (1): 19340 - … Read more
In Depth Fossils of this dinosaur were actually first mentioned in a scientific paper published in 2008, but it would not be until 2022 that they were formally described as a distinct genus. Paralitherizinosaurus is a genus of therizinosaurid dinosaur that lived in South East Asia during the late Cretaceous. Although established upon the description … Read more
In Depth Ypupiara is a genus of dromaeosaurid dinosaur that lived in South America during the late Cretaceous. Further reading - A new Unenlagiinae (Theropoda: Dromaeosauridae) from the Late Cretaceous of Brazil. - Papers in Palaeontology vol 7, issue 4. - Arthur S. Brum, Rodrigo V. P�gas, Kamila L. N. Bandeira, Lucy G. Souza, Diogenes … Read more
In Depth Stegouros is a genus of small ankylosaurian dinosaur that lived in South America during the late Cretaceous. What is an immediate stand out feature of this dinosaur is the tail which has a very distinct arrangement of osteoderms. This arranging of osteoderms led to comparison to a maquahuitl, a kind of hand held … Read more
In Depth Fossils of the dinosaur Issi were originally referred to the genus Plateosaurus. However, greater understanding of Plateosaurus, sauropodomorphs dinosaurs as well as new studies of the fossils from Greenland led to the conclusion that the Greenland fossils were of a distinct genus. Issi was established as the new published name of the genus … Read more
In Depth Protopteryx is a genus of enantiornithine bird that lived in Asia during the early Cretaceous. An interesting note about Protopteryx is that it is among the most primitive enantiornithine birds known to live in the early Cretaceous. Protopteryx was very small, only about ten centimetres from head to tail (excluding the feathers). Protopteryx … Read more
In Depth First described in 2021, Vectiraptor is a genus of dromaeosaurid dinosaur that lived in what is now England during the early Cretaceous. Although only described from a very few bones, analysis of these have yielded the conclusion that Vectiraptor was probably a member of the Eudromaeosauria sub group of the Dromaeosauridae. We would … Read more
In Depth Tlatolophus is a genus of hadrosaurid dinosaur that lived in Mexico during the late Cretaceous. Although a lot of the post cranial skeleton was unknown at the time of the genus description, what is known, including the skull, represents one of the best preserved lambeosaurine hadrosaurs discovered in Mexico. Like others of its … Read more
In Depth Brighstoneus is a genus of hadrosauriform dinosaur that lived in the British Isles during the early Cretaceous. One feature that immediately stands out about Brighstoneus is the enlarged nasal bone which would have supported a bulla-like feature with convex sides on the tip of the snout. Like other hadrosaurifom dinosaurs, Brighstoneus would have … Read more
In Depth Perijasaurus is a genus of sauropod dinosaur that lived in South America during the Jurassic. Further reading - A sauropod from the Lower Jurassic La Quinta Formation (Dept. Cesar, Colombia) and the initial diversification of eusauropods at low latitudes. - Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. - Aldo F. Rinc�n, Daniel A. Raad P�jaro, Harold … Read more