The Big Dinosaur Podcast

Episode 195 is all about Gryphoceratops, a tiny Canadian cousin of Triceratops.

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In this episode, we discuss:

News:

• A new article shows that Spinosaurus probably couldn’t swim effectively, but was a capable bipedal walker on land source
• Victoria Arbour is the new curator of paleontology at the Royal British Columbia Museum source
• Dickinson Dinosaur Museum has continued excavating a tyrannosaur and hadrosaur in the Judith River Formation in Montana source
• Juvenile hadrosaurs bones have been found in the Spring Creek bone bed near the Philip J. Currie Dinosaur Museum in Grande Prairie source
• The Queensland Museum in Australia is 3D scanning its collection of fossils and will share its research with Australian students and international scientists source
• Dinosaur Hill in Fruita, Colorado has some new signs to teach people about the historical importance of the area source
• Ohio State University’s Orton Hall Museum is getting a Cryolophosaurus cast to display on October 7 source
• Brazos Valley Museum of Natural History in Texas has some new fossils, including a full sized cast of a Triceratops skull source
• From now until September 9, you can see the “Tyrannosaurus Exhibit: The mystery of evolution” at the Okinawa Prefectural Museum and Art Museum in Naha, Japan source
• The Bolton Museum in Bolton, UK, recently officially nicknamed their Tuojiangosaurus skeleton “Jango” source
• Smithsonian Mag wrote an elegy for Hatcher the Triceratops which will soon be on display being eaten by a T. rex source
• A list of dinosaur games includes Magic School Bus: Dinosaurs, Dinosaur Island, Jurassic Park: Danger, Dino Frontier, and Ark: Survival Evolved. source
• The new game, Jurassic World VR Expedition is available to play in Dave & Busters source
• According to J.A. Bayona, E.T. inspired the really sad Brachiosaurus death scene in Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom source
• A group of US military veterans made a Jurassic World fan film called “Jurassic World Exodus” source

The dinosaur of the day: Gryphoceratops

• Leptoceratopsid ceratopsian that lived in the Cretaceous in what is now Alberta, Canada
• Name means “Griffin horned face”
• Found in the Milk River Formation in Dinosaur Provincial Park
• Only holotype found, and consists of a partial right lower jaw
• Named in 2012 by Michael Ryan, David Evans, Philip Currie, Caleb Brown, Don Brinkman
• Type species is Gryphoceratops morrisoni
• Herbivorous
• Oldest known leptoceratopsid, but also one of the most advanced
• Leptoceratopsids are closely related to neoceratopsians, but are more primitive and usually smaller
• Unclear how big it was, but may be the smallest known adult ceratopsian from North America

Fun Fact:

Until the 1950s–70s both sauropods & hadrosaurs were often considered aquatic or semi-aquatic.

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