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"Dino of the Day:" Teratophoneus

Pronunciation: Teh-rat-oh-foe-nee-us
Meaning of name: "Monstrous murderer."
Species: T. curriei
Size: Estimated to have measured between 6.5 and 8 metres long, between 2 and 3 metres tall and weighing between 1.1 and 2.5 metric tonnes.
Family: Tyrannosauridae.
Diet: Carnivore.
First fossils found: Known only from two partial skeletons, the first of which, believed to belong to a sub-adult, was discovered in the Kaiparowits Formation of Utah in 1981. Named by Thomas D. Carr, Thomas E. Williamson, Brooks B. Britt and Ken Stadtman in 2011. A second specimen was discovered in the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in 2017.
Lived: 77 to 76 million years ago during the Campanian stage of the Late Cretaceous in what is now the western United States.

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Here's today's entry, a plesiosaur from New Zealand: Kaiwhekea.

Pronunciation: Kie-whek-e-ah
Meaning of name: "Squid eater".
Species: K. katiki.
Size: Measured between 6 and 7 metres long. Weighed between 1 and 2 metric tonnes.
Family: Leptocleididae.
Diet: Fish and squid.
First fossils found: Known from a single, almost complete skeleton discovered in the Katiki Formation of the South Island of New Zealand in 2002. Named in the same year by Arthur Cruickshank and Ewan Fordyce.
Lived: 70 to 69 million years ago during the Maastrichtian stage of the Late Cretaceous in the warm oceans that covered what is now the South Island of New Zealand. At this time, Cryptoclidid plesiosaurs, such as Kaiwhekea, were very rare.

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"Dino of the Day!": Magnapaulia

Pronunciation: Mag-nah-pawl-e-ah
Meaning of name: "Large Paul", after Paul G. Haaga, Jr., the president of the board of trustees of the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History.
Species: M. laticaudus
Size: Estimated to have measured around 12.5 metres long and weighing 6 metric tonnes. Height uncertain.
Family: Lambeosaurinae (a sub-family of Hadrosauridae)
Diet: Herbivore. Likely fed on both high and low-growing vegetation.
First fossils found: Known from skin impressions and the partial skeletons of several individuals. First discovered in the El Gallo Formation of Baja California, northwestern Mexico, between 1968 and 1974. Named by Albert Prieto-Marquez, Luis Chiappe and Shantanu Joshi in 2012. Was originally thought to be a species of Lambeosaurus.
Lived: 74 to 73 million years ago during the Campanian stage of the Late Cretaceous in what in now northwestern Mexico.

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Today's entry is a marine reptile from Germany: Westphaliasaurus

Pronunciation: West-fa-lee-ah-sore-us
Meaning of name: "Westphalian lizard", after the region of northwestern Germany where its fossils were discovered.
Species: W. simonsensii
Size: Estimated to have measured around 4.5 metres long. Weight uncertain.
Family: Plesiosauridae.
Diet: Unknown. Possible piscivore.
First fossils found: Known only from a single, almost-complete skeleton discovered by amateur paleontologist, Sönke Simonsen, in northwestern Germany in 2007. Named by Leonie Schwermann and Martin Sander in 2011.
Lived: 190.8 to 182.7 million years ago during the Pliensbachian stage of the Early Jurassic in the warm oceans that once covered what is now northwestern Germany.

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Today's entry is a small Pterosaur from China: Orientognathus

Pronunciation: Or-e-en-tog-nay-thus
Meaning of name: "Oriental jaw".
Species: O. chaoyangensis
Wingspan: Estimated to have measured around 1 metre.
Family: Rhamphorhynchidae.
Diet: Piscivore.
First fossils found: Known from a single, almost complete skeleton discovered in the Tuchengzi Formation of northeast China (date of discovery uncertain). Named by J. Lu, H. Pu, X. Wei, H. Chang and M. Kundrat in 2015.
Lived: 150 million years ago during the Tithonian stage of the Late Jurassic in what is now northeast China.

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"Dino of the Day!": Rahonavis

Pronunciation: Rae-hoe-nay-viss
Meaning of name: "Cloud bird".
Species: R. ostromi
Size: 70cm long, 30cm tall and weighing between 0.45 and 2.27kgs
Family: Dromaeosauridae
Diet: Carnivore/insectivore.
First fossils found: Known only from a single, partial skeleton discovered by American palaeontologist, Catherine Ann Forster, in the Maevarano Formation of Mahajanga Province, northwestern Madagascar, in 1995. Named by Ms. Forster in 1998.
Lived: 70 million years ago during the Maastrichtian stage of the Late Cretaceous in what is now northwestern Madagascar.

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Actually Toril -

How “lifelike” are we talking? According to Science Alert, the preservation was so good that researchers were able to find out the dinosaur’s skin color.

By using mass spectrometry techniques, researchers detected pigments on the scales of the dinosaur. Apparently, the nodosaur’s coloring was a dark reddish brown on the top of the body — and lighter on the underside.

allthatsinteresting.com/nodosaur-dinosaur-mummy

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