Post by Deleted on Feb 15, 2021 12:18:28 GMT
"Dino of the Day!": Rugocaudia
Pronunciation: Roo-go-caw-dee-ah
Meaning of name: "Wrinkled tail", in reference to the highly rugose posterior margins of the tail vertebrae.
Species: R. cooneyi
Size: Uncertain due to a lack of fossils.
Family: Uncertain.
Diet: Herbivore.
First fossils found: Known only from a metacarpal, a tooth and eighteen tail vertebrae discovered in the Cloverly Formation of Montana (date of discovery uncertain). Named by Cary Woodruff in 2012.
Lived: 125 to 112 million years ago during the Aptian and Albian stages of the Early Cretaceous in what is now the western United States.
Artist's impression of Rugocaudia.
Pronunciation: Roo-go-caw-dee-ah
Meaning of name: "Wrinkled tail", in reference to the highly rugose posterior margins of the tail vertebrae.
Species: R. cooneyi
Size: Uncertain due to a lack of fossils.
Family: Uncertain.
Diet: Herbivore.
First fossils found: Known only from a metacarpal, a tooth and eighteen tail vertebrae discovered in the Cloverly Formation of Montana (date of discovery uncertain). Named by Cary Woodruff in 2012.
Lived: 125 to 112 million years ago during the Aptian and Albian stages of the Early Cretaceous in what is now the western United States.
Artist's impression of Rugocaudia.
