07 April 2016

Wendiceratops (Wendy Horned Face)

Parietal bones

Rostral and Nasal bones

Parietal bones reconstruction

Remains uncovered in blue
Reconstructed skeletal mount
Discovered in 2015, Wendiceratops pinhornensis, shows evidence of transition between centrosaurs and chasmosaurs. 

06 April 2016

Notocolossus (Southern Giant)

Assorted Vertebral Fragments

Right humerus, Proximal end of the left pubis, Right tarsus and pes, metatarsus 

        Notocolossus gonzalezparejasi from the Upper Cretaceous of Mendoza Province, Argentina. With a powerfully-constructed humerus 1.76 m in length, Notocolossus is one of the largest known dinosaurs.

05 April 2016

Dracoraptor (Dragon Thief)

Assorted Cervical Vertebrae
Assorted fragments of the manus
Slate with the fragments of the manus and furcula
Close-up of tooth

Left premaxilla with tooth

Block containing leg and hip bones

Right premaxilla

Right and Left Premaxilla
           Approximately 40% of a skeleton including, cranial and post cranial remains, representing a new genus and species of basal neotheropod dinosaur is coined, Dracoraptor hanigani. It was collected from fallen blocks from a sea cliff that exposes Late Triassic and Early Jurassic marine and quasi marine strata on the south Wales coast near the city of Cardiff.

04 April 2016

Eotrachodon (Dawn Rough Tooth)

Skull Fragments
Skull Fragments
Skeletal Fragments

         Eotrachodon orientalis from the latest Santonian of Alabama, southeastern U.S.A. Is one of the oldest and most basal hadrosaurid dinosaurs and the only hadrosaurid from Appalachia (present day eastern North America) with a preserved skull.

03 April 2016

Chongmingia zhengi (Xiaoting Zheng's Chongming)

Fossil Slate (Nearly complete)

       A new bird, Chongmingia zhengi, from the Jehol Biota. Phylogenetic analyses indicate that Chongmingia zhengi is basal to the dominant Mesozoic avian clades Enantiornithes and Ornithuromorpha, and represents a new basal avialan lineage.