In Depth Tralkasaurus was named from very partial fossil remains, so it is hard to be certain and the full life features of this dinosuar. At the time of discovery, what can be said is that Tralkasaurus seems to have been an abelisaurid theropod, and one that seems to have been smaller than most other … Read more
In Depth Siamraptor is a genus of carcharodontosaurid dinosaur that lived in Asia during the early Cretaceous. The holotype individual of Siamraptor is only known from a partial skull, jawbone and a few post cranial bones, so precise details or any unusual features if they existed, are still unknown. These scattered bones however do indicate … Read more
In Depth In simple terms Eucnemesaurus was a prosauropod, a member of the group that was ancestral to the later larger sauropods. Eucnemesaurus has a better know association with a former dinosaur genus Aliwalia. Aliwalia was big news when described, even though it was only described from a femur and a partial maxilla. The maxilla … Read more
In Depth Due to the incomplete remains not a lot is known about this dinosaur other than it is probably a basal titanosauriform. The genus name is a reference to the appearance of the tail vertebrae while the species name of R. cooneyi is in honour of J. P. Cooney who owned the land where … Read more
In Depth Dryptosaurus aquilunguis first started off being known as Laelaps aquilunguis when it was first named in 1866 by Edward Drinker Cope, and under the name Laelaps it was one of the first North American dinosaurs to be named. Cope chose the name Laelaps after a dog in Greek mythology which always caught what … Read more
In Depth First discovered in the Canadian Province of Alberta by Irene Vanderloh in 1974 and named by Hans-Dieter Sues in 1978, Saurornitholestes was a small dromaeosaur that is thought to have been similar to the Asian Velociraptor in form. In 2006 a second species called Saurornitholestes robustus was named by Robert Sullivan. The ‘robustus’ … Read more
In Depth The history of Galeamopus goes all the way back to 1902 when the first fossils were discovered in the US state of Wyoming. In 1906 the fossils were assigned to the Diplodocus genus, but in 1924 they were given their own species D. hayi, upon the basis that they were clearly different to … Read more
In Depth Compsosuchus is considered to be a very dubious genus of dinosaur, not only due to the incomplete remains but the fact that Charles Alfred Matley and Friedrich von Huene also named two other dinosaurs, Indosaurus and Indosuchus that combined with Compsosuchus may actually represent the same genus. Compsosuchus has been considered to be … Read more
In Depth Neimongosaurus is a genus of therizinosaur that lived in Asia during the late Cretaceous. Like other therizinosaurs, Neimongosaurus was descended from meat eating theropods, though the teeth in the lower jaw of Neimongosaurus which have coarse serrations which indicate that Neimongosaurus were plant eaters. Neimongosaurus has occasionally been classed as a member of … Read more
In Depth Mierasaurus is a genus of turiasaurian sauropod dinosaur that lived in Western North America during the early Cretaceous. Mierasaurus along with the genus Moabosaurus represent at the time of writing some of the last known Turiasaurian sauropod dinosaurs to exist. Further Reading - Descendants of the Jurassic turiasaurs from Iberia found refuge in … Read more