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From the album: Hell Creek / Lance Formations
A river-worn, shed Ornithischian dinosaur tooth found in a channel deposit. Despite its rough shape, the prominent central ridge and denticles make me think it's Pachycephalosaurid.- 1 comment
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Hello together, I am looking for a good readable overview about ornithischia. After enjoying "The rise and reign of the mammals" by Steve Brusatte, I got myself his "rise and fall of the dinosaurs" but found it quite theropod-heavy, not to say theropodocentric. "Horns and beaks" from the "life of the past" series sounds promising, but the reviews say its just a collection of technical papers (as "ancient marine reptiles" turned out to be, in contrast to "ancient sea reptiles", which I liked much even if it could have gone a bit more into the details) Between the highly technical books and the many popular ones for children, I am looking for a solid, readable overview, preferably illustrated, about Ornithischia. Same thing for Sauropods would also be welcome. @LordTrilobite, maybe you have a recommendation? Thanks! J
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A new herbivorous dinosaur with an oddly shaped nose from the Isle of Wight
Oxytropidoceras posted a topic in Fossil News
An overlooked fossil turned out to be a new herbivorous dinosaur with an oddly shaped nose Brighstoneus simmondsi has a big lump around the nostrils, like a chunky alligator. By Philip Kieffer, Popular Science, November 10, 2021 The open access paper is: McDonald, A.T., Barrett, P.M. and Chapman, S.D., 2010. A new basal iguanodont (Dinosauria: Ornithischia) from the Wealden (Lower Cretaceous) of England. Zootaxa, 2569(1), pp.1-43. Researchgate PDF Yours, Paul H.- 3 replies
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Ornithischian vertebra - Lance Fm. Thescelosaurus? Hadrosaur?
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Hello! This is a very worn, very eroded ornithischian vertebra from the Lance Formation of Wyoming. It was in three pieces that I recently glued back together, I found all the pieces wrapped in foil together in the box I brought back from the trip. It’s from my trip there this summer, though I don’t remember collecting this specific bone. My immediate thought based on size and shape is Thescelosaurus, though I have seen some small Hadrosaur verts that look kind of like this one. I just hope it isn’t too worn/eroded that no guesses at an ID can be made! Thanks! -
A new paper is out online that you'll find shocking: Müller RT, Garcia MS. 2020. A paraphyletic ‘Silesauridae’ as an alternative hypothesis for the initial radiation of ornithischian dinosaurs. Biol. Lett.16:20200417. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2020.0417 I remember that several Late Triassic animals erected upon teeth (Crosbysaurus, Galtonia, Krzyzanowskisaurus, Lucianosaurus, Pekinosaurus, Protecovasaurus, Revueltosaurus, and Tecovasaurus) were once classified within Ornithischia because the type teeth of those taxa are similar to those of ornithischians (some early sauropodomorphs have leaf-shaped teeth, too), but Revueltosaurus was later reclassified as an extinct relative of alligators and crocodiles based on complete material, and Galtonia and Pekinosaurus were also recognized as suchians closely related to Revueltosaurus, meaning that other putative Triassic ornithischian taxa from the American Southwest were placed in Archosauriformes incertae sedis by Parker et al. (2005) and Irmis et al. (2007) due to the presence of triangular leaf-shaped teeth being convergent among ornithischian dinosaurs and some non-dinosaurian clades. The hyper-sparse record of Triassic Ornithischia left people scratching their heads to explain the paucity of Triassic ornithischian fossils, with some speculating that ornithischians did not diversify until the Early Jurassic; the fact that Pisanosaurus combines some craniodental traits of Ornithischia more advanced than those of Lesothosaurus and the postcranial traits of basal dinosauriforms complicated matters further, because this mosaic of morphological features threatened the status of Pisanosaurus as the oldest ornithischian. Agnolin and Rozadilla (2018) tidied up matters by concluding that Pisanosaurus is a silesaurid that evolves craniodental features convergent with those of advanced ornithischians. The new paper by Muller and Garcia (2020) has a pretty novel hypothesis to explain the virtually non-existence of Ornithischia in Triassic deposits. It shockingly recovers Silesauridae as paraphyletic with respect to traditional Ornithischia (containing Genasauria and Eocursor), suggesting that the earliest relatives of Ornithischia evolved a purely faunivorous diet, given that Asilisaurus from Tanzania has sub-triangular crowns and a constricted root and dentaries with a beak-like anterior tip. For instance, Lewisuchus is recovered a more primitive than Soumyasaurus and Asilisaurus. Since Pisanosaurus has a mosaic of ornithischian-like features and postcranial traits usually seen in non-dinosaurian dinosauromorphs, it may be surmised that the earliest dinosaurs had some postcranial features similar to those of lagerpetids and Lagosuchus. Of interesting note is the fact that Technosaurus (named for Texas Tech University where the holotype is stored) was once considered a 'fabrosaurid' ornitischian before it was classified as a silesaurid, so the placement of all silesaurs as closely related to Ornithischia and recovery of Pisanosaurus as sister to Ornithischia means that the peculiar morphology of Pisanosaurus renders silesaurs more closely related to ornithischians. Randall B. Irmis, William G. Parker, Sterling J. Nesbitt & Jun Liu (2007) Early ornithischian dinosaurs: the Triassic record. Historical Biology, 19:1, 3-22, DOI: 10.1080/08912960600719988 Parker, W. G., Irmis, R. B., Nesbitt, S. J., Martz, J. W., & Browne, L. S. (2005). The Late Triassic pseudosuchian Revueltosaurus callenderi and its implications for the diversity of early ornithischian dinosaurs. Proceedings. Biological sciences, 272(1566): 963–969. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2004.3047
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Hey everyone, recently came across this partial vertebra from the Kimmeridge Clay online, apparently collected south of Oxford. It measures 9.5cm x 8.5cm. The seller tentatively identified it as a Stegosaurid based on the internal pattern visible on the polished side, and subsequently assigned it to Dacentrurus, since it's the only Stegosaurid fitting the time and location. I tried to find more information on these supposed patterns indicative of Stegosaurs without much success, so I'd like to ask: › Is the vertebra actually identifiable on a family level? › If so, what are the defining characteristics and where could I read up about them? Thanks for your help!
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