In Depth Sanxiasaurus is a genus of small ornithischian dinosaur that lived in China during the mid Jurassic. Further Reading - A neornithischian dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic Xintiangou Formation of Yunyang, Chongqing, China: the earliest record in Asia. - Historical Biology: 1–14. - Ning Li, Hui Dai, Chao Tan, Xufeng Hu, Zhaoying Wei, Yu … Read more
In Depth Ferrisaurus is a genus of leptoceratopsian dinosaur that lived in Canada towards the end of the Cretaceous period. Further Reading - A new leptoceratopsid dinosaur from Maastrichtian-aged deposits of the Sustut Basin, northern British Columbia, Canada. - PeerJ. - Victoria Arbour & David Evans - 2019.
In Depth The first pachycepahlosaurid dinosaur known from Alaska, Alaskacephale is also one of the few dinosaurs known to have lived in the area that would become that state. Unfortunately not a lot is known about this dinosaur because of a current sever lack of remains, but the original describers believe that Alaskacephale may have … Read more
In Depth Corythoraptor is a genus of oviraptorid dinosaur that lived in China during the late Cretaceous. Corythoraptor has been described as having a head crest similar to that of a modern day cassowary. The beak of Corythoraptor was also more pointed towards the end, suggesting feeding specialisation. Corythoraptor is one of many oviraptorid dinosaurs … Read more
In Depth The fragmentary nature of Shaochilong resulted in it being included into the Chilantaisaurus genus, a theropod dinosaur also from the Ulansuhai Formation. However while fragmentary, the fossil remains for C. maortuensis were much larger that the estimated length of two and a half meters for other Chilantaisaurus material. Questions were first raised about … Read more
In Depth When fossils of this dinosaur were originally described as Lambeosaurus laticaudus, the estimated size of the species was given as between fifteen and sixteen and a half meters long, something that causes inaccurate size quotations for Lambeosaurus to this day even though larger individuals of this genus are around the nine meter mark. … Read more
In Depth Certainly one of the more difficult dinosaur names to pronounce, Mnyamawamtuka is a genus of titanosaur that lived in Africa during the Cretaceous. The holotype of Mnyamawamtuka is recognised as one of the most complete titanosaurs ever discovered. The high level of completeness may be down to the fact that this creature was … Read more
In Depth Chromogisaurus is a genus of sauropodomorph dinosaur that lived in South America during the late Triassic. At only about two meters long, Chromogisaurus was small for its kind, though certainly not unique. The main predators of Chromogisaurus would have mainly been the emerging theropod dinosaurs, though late surviving rauisuchians would have been potential … Read more
In Depth Weewarrasaurus is a genus of ornithischian dinosaur that lived in Australia during the late Cretaceous. At the time of writing, Weewarrasaurus is known from only two dentaries’ (lower jaws), so precise details about this dinosaur are otherwise unknown. Further Reading - Ornithopod diversity in the Griman Creek Formation (Cenomanian), New South Wales, Australia. … Read more
In Depth Iguanacolossus acquired its name from its similarity to another dinosaur named Iguanodon. Although Iguanacolossus might not actually have been any bigger than the largest examples of Iguanodon, it might still have been the largest ornithopod plant eating dinosaur alive in North America at this stage of the Cretaceous, with the only plant eaters … Read more