In Depth If there has ever been a genus that has been a serious source of confusion for people, it’s Scansoriopteryx. We’ll start with the correct name for this genus regarding whether it should be Scansoriopteryx or Epidendrosaurus. We are certain that both of these genera are one and the same and therefore synonymous. However, … Read more
In Depth Named in 2005, Baurutitan seems to have been a fairly large titanosaur that lived in Brazil during the last stage of the Cretaceous. Further Reading - Description of a titanosaurid caudal series from the Bauru Group, Late Cretaceous of Brazil. - Arquivos do Museu Nacional, Rio de Janeiro 63(3):529-564. - A. W. A. … Read more
In Depth Eomamenchisaurus is a genus of sauropod dinosaur that lived in China during the middle Jurassic. Further Reading - A new mamenchisaurid dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic of Yuanmou, Yunnan Province, China. - Acta Geologica Sinica 82(1):17-26. - J. L�, T. Li, S. Zhong, Q. Ji & S. Li - 2008.
In Depth The modern history of the sauropod dinosaur Barosaurus begins in 1889 with the discovery of the first Barosaurus fossils by a Ms E. R. Ellerman in South Dakota. Six caudal (tail) vertebrae were subsequently recovered by the famous American palaeontologist Othniel Charles Marsh later that year, though other remains were left at the … Read more
In Depth Lophorhothon was first discovered in the US state of Alabama in the Mooreville Chalk Formation. During the Cretaceous, this area was known as a region of Appalachia (the eastern landmass of North America at the time separated from Laramidia in the West), and what is significant about this is that when Lophorhothon was … Read more
In Depth Gobisaurus is very similar to another earlier named ankylosaur called Shamosaurus, yet there are enough differences in the skull features to be certain that these are separate genera, but ones that seem to be closely related. New analysis of the Ulansuhai Formation has also indicated that Gobisaurus may have lived around the Turonian … Read more
In Depth Pilmatueia is a genus of dicraeosaurid sauropod dinosaur that lived in South America during the Early Cretaceous. Analysis of known vertebrae of Pilmatueia show enlarged neural spines which have led to the idea that Pilmatueia would have been similar to the much better known Amargasaurus. Further Reading - A new dicraeosaurid sauropod from … Read more
In Depth To put it bluntly, the remains of Hudiesaurus are very partial, but they do seem to belong to a mamenchisaurid sauropod, or in simpler terms, one like Mamenchisaurus. The remains which are known are without doubt huge, and comparison to other similar sauropod genera has resulted in an estimated length of around thirty … Read more
In Depth Shishugounykus is a genus of small alvareszaurid dinosaur that lived in Asia during the Jurassic. Further Reading - A new alvarezsaurian theropod from the Upper Jurassic Shishugou Formation of western China. - Scientific Reports, 9: 11727. - Z. Qin, J. Clark, J. Choiniere & X. Xu - 2019.
In Depth Charonosaurus is immediately recognisable to its similarity to the better known Parasaurolophus. However Charonosaurus was seems to have been considerably larger than its North American cousin, as well as living later after Parasaurolophus had disappeared in North America. Like with Parasaurolophus, the crest of Charonosaurus is thought to have served both a display … Read more