Episode 141 is all about Ohmdenosaurus, a questionable genus that was herbivorous and lived in the Early Jurassic in what is now Germany.
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In this episode, we discuss:
News:
- New oviraptorid, Corythoraptor jacobsi with a “cassowary-like crest” that could have been used for communication, thermoregulation, and/or display
- New bones of Austrosaurus mckillopi were found after tracking down the original site from a 1933 paper and photos
- University of Saskatchewan Space Design Team found dinosaur fossils while looking for a test site for their rover prototype
- 15th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Vertebrate Palaeontologists just finished, abstracts can be read here
- A 10-year old boy has successfully corrected a mislabeled dinosaur at the Natural History Museum in London.
- Dinosaur World, will be at the New Theater in Oxford, UK on August 24 through August 26
- A podiatrist who was on a dinosaur dig with Two Medicine Dinosaur Center in Bynum, Montana, found a Daspletosaurus bone
- Giant turkey nuggets have been the inspiration for a series of edible tableaus, mostly dinosaurs dying
- LEGO ideas has a 1,000 piece T.rex skull design in the works which measures almost 2 feet long
- A new denim jacket with sequin dinosaurs has become very popular after getting shared on Facebook. You can easily find them with an eBay search
- A funny although inaccurate shirt shows the three phases of matter in T. rex form
The dinosaur of the day: Ohmdenosaurus
- Name means “Ohmden lizard”
- Herbivore that lived in the Early Jurassic in what is now Germany
- Named and described in 1978 by Rupert Wild, a German paleontologist who visited the Urwelt-Museum Hauff at Holzmaden in the 1970s and saw that a fossil labeled as a plesiosaur was actually a dinosaur bone
- Type species is Ohmdenosaurus liasicus
- Name refers to Ohmden, the town near the quarry where Ohmdenosaurus fossils were found
- Species name refers to Lias, which is an old name for Early Jurassic
- Only a few fragmentary leg bones have been found
- Some think Ohmdenosaurus may not be a valid genus, because so few remains have been found
- May be a vulcanodontid, which are basal sauropods, but Vulcanodontidae has historically been a waste-basket taxon for basal sauropods (but not enough Ohmdenosaurus bones have been found to determine if it is for sure Vulcanodontidae)
- Holotype includes partial limb bones (tibia, astralgus, calcaneus)
- Tibia is only 405 mm long, which is small for a sauropod
- Small, about 13 ft (4 m) long
- Bones found had signs of weathering, so it probably died on land and then the bones were washed into the sea
Fun Fact:
Sauropods would make great painters if they could figure it out (like elephants have)
- Sauropods aren’t mammals and probably have different painting abilities than elephants, but birds can be trained to use tools, so who knows…
- Jonathan Kingdon says a rearing elephant can reach 7m (23ft)
- high enough to (theoretically) paint most houses
- Paul’s paper shows a Giraffatitan with its mouth 16m (>52ft) off the ground
- Enough to paint a 5 story building
- Or our house
- Maybe it could even do a life-size self-portrait
- Enough to paint a 5 story building
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