In Depth Teyujagua is a genus of archosauromorph reptile that lived in Brazil during the Triassic. Further Reading - An exceptional fossil skull from South America and the origins of the archosauriform radiation. - Scientific Reports. 6. - Felipe L. Pinheiro, Marco A. G. Fran�a, Marcel B. Lacerda, Richard J. Butler & Cesar L. Schultz … Read more
In Depth Yunyangosaurus is a genus of predatory theropod dinosaur that lived in China during the Mid Jurassic. Further Reading - A new possible megalosauroid theropod from the Middle Jurassic Xintiangou Formation of Chongqing, People’s Republic of China and its implication for early tetanuran evolution. - Scientific Reports. 10: Article number 139. - Hui Dai, … Read more
In Depth Orginally described as a species of Chanaresuchus, C. ischigualastensis was elevated to a genus level in 2014 and became Pseudochampsa. Pseudochampsa is a genus of proterochampsian archosauromorph, and would have been a relatively small predator mostly hunting smaller animals. Further Reading – A new proterochampsid Chanaresuchus ischigualastensis (Diapsida, Archosauriformes) in the early Late … Read more
In Depth Bogolubovia did not come into existence until seventy-five years after the holotype was discovered in 1914 by Nikolai Nikolaevich Bogolubov. Initially the remains were attributed to Ornithostoma as O. orientalis, and later reclassified as a species of Pteranodon. Now the original description can be compared with greater understanding of pterosaurs in general, Bogolubovia … Read more
In Depth Paleorhinus has been one of the key phytosaur genera for well over a hundred years now, however many of the species once assigned to the genus have now been re-assigned to other genera. At the time of writing the only recognised species of Paleorhinus are the type species P. bransoni from the USA, … Read more
In Depth On a Chinese construction site in 1973 a dinosaur skeleton was accidentally processed by a mechanical composter. Unfortunately by the time the workers had realised what had happened much of the dinosaur had already been damaged and in some places completely destroyed by the machinery, but palaeontologists were still able to reconstruct and … Read more
In Depth Originally named as a species of Iguanodon by Richard Lydekker in 1888, the holotype fossils of this genus were actually named as a new genus twice in 2010, in two separate papers published that year. The holotype specimen was first named by David Norman as Barilium, and then by Kenneth Carpenter and Yusuke … Read more
In Depth Eumetabolodon is a genus of procolophonid reptile that lived in China during the Triassic. Further Reading - Tooth replacement in a new genus of procolophonid from the Early Triassic of China. - Palaeontology 26(3):567-583. - J. L. Li - 1983.
In Depth Simurghia is a genus of pterosaur that lived in Africa during the late Cretaceous. The holotype fossils of Simurghia were found in what was a marine environment, strongly showing that Simurghia lived in coastal ecosystems. Further Reading - Late Maastrichtian pterosaurs from North Africa and mass extinction of Pterosauria at the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary. … Read more
In Depth Babibasiliscus is a relative of modern day basilisk lizards, some of which are also dubbed ‘Jesus Christ lizards’ for their ability to run across water for short distances. Babibasiliscus is best known from a skull, which when compared to average modern basilisk proportions yields an estimate of about sixty centimetres long for the … Read more