Showing posts with label fossil. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fossil. Show all posts

21 April 2016

Achelousaurus (Achelous's Lizard)






Achelousaurus, "Achelous's lizard", is a genus of centrosaurine ceratopsid dinosaurs from the Late Cretaceous Period of what is now North America, dated to 74.2 million years ago.


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. 

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.

02 April 2016

Fukuivenator (Fukui Hunter)

Partial right premaxilla in lateral view. Partial left maxilla in lateral view. Partial left lacrimal in lateral view. Right frontal in dorsal view. Right postorbital in lateral view. Left squamosal in lateral view. Partial right dentary in lateral view.
Assorted skeletal fragments
Mounted Skeletal
         A new theropod has been discovered, coined Fukuivenator paradoxus, based on a nearly complete specimen from the Lower Cretaceous Kitadani Formation of the Tetori Group, Fukui, Japan. It shows evidence of omnivory in its teeth.

30 March 2016

Haimirichia. amonensis

Articulated specimen, Note: mirrored (Right: Dorsal, Left: Ventral)

The First Articulated Specimen of the Cretaceous Mackerel Shark Haimirichia amonensisgen

28 March 2016

Viavenator (Hunter of the Road)

Illustration of the skeletal remains (Photographs are not yet available)
               A well preserved skeleton of a new abelisaurid has been described. The holotype of Viavenator exxoni was found in the outcrops of the Bajo de la Carpa Formation (Santonian, Upper Cretaceous), northwestern Patagonia, Argentina.



Abelisaur (Unknown Genus)

              A femur of an as-yet unnamed Abelisaur theropod was recently discovered. The only information gathered is that the approximate size of the animal would have been around 9 meters.