Posted on 05/08/2019 4:49:26 PM PDT by ETL
The newly named tyrannosauroid dinosaur, Suskityrannus hazelae, stood around 3 feet tall at the hip and was about 9 feet long, according to Virginia Tech.
“My discovery of a partial skeleton of Suskityrannus put me onto a scientific journey that has framed my career,” said Nesbitt, the lead author of the study in the journal “Nature Ecology and Evolution.”
But for about two decades, scientists weren’t certain what it was, until other small cousins of T. rex were discovered.
“The small group of tyrannosauroid dinosaurs would give rise to some of the biggest predators that we’ve ever seen,” Nesbitt said.
While the typical weight for a full-grown T. rex was roughly 9 tons, the Suskityrannus hazelae is believed to have weighed between 45 and 90 pounds, according to the university.
“Suskityrannus has a much more slender skull and foot than its later and larger cousins, the Tyrannosaurus rex,” Nesbitt told the university.
“The find also links the older and smaller tyrannosauroids from North America and China with the much larger tyrannosaurids that lasted until the final extinction of non-avian dinosaurs.” ..."
Suskityrannus hazelae dates back 92 million years, which is about 20 million years before the T. rex roamed Earth.
The fossil also dates back to the Cretaceous Period, when some of the largest dinosaurs ever discovered lived, the university said.
“Suskityrannus gives us a glimpse into the evolution of tyrannosaurs just before they take over the planet,” Nesbitt said.
“It also belongs to a dinosaurian fauna that just proceeds the iconic dinosaurian faunas in the latest Cretaceous that include some of the most famous dinosaurs, such as the Triceratops, predators like Tyrannosaurus rex, and duckbill dinosaurs like Edmotosaurus.”
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Well that kind of spoils it. All that molting would make a terrible mess of the house.
It might have made for some great color patterns though.
A T-Rex mini mi for consideration and discussion
Originally it was a small predator. But it was subsidized and just grew and grew. Eventually it grew so large it ate everything in sight.
Sound like something else we know?
For real. They make it sound so cute and cuddly, like a lap dog, until it bites your leg off at the thigh. LOL
Is it one of the D candidates ?
Thanks centurion316.
Welcome back! I was worried.
Car scene, where Sammy “The Bull” Gravano makes his first hit.
“Get It On” by band T-Rex playing on the car radio.
Sammy in backseat, waiting to shoot and kill the front seat passenger of the car, one of his ‘good buddies’, on Mob orders.
Driver’s Mobbed-up uncle, on driver’s behalf, ordered the hit...
Driver: What’s this garbage we’re listening to?
Front seat passenger: T-Rex. They’re from England.
Sammy (in backseat): They ain’t half bad.
Driver: What are they even doing in this country?
Put on some Italian music — A little Jimmy Roselli.
Front seat passenger: C’mon, Tony. I like this song.
Sammy: Let him listen to what he wants.
Driver: That’s right, I forgot.
Tonight is Joey’s night.
(driver nods to Sammy to make the hit)
Sammy: (reaches for gun and shoots his ‘pal’ of many years in the back of the head)
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Witness to the Mob (1998) (2:46 min clip of car scene)
Thanks.
I was being “punished” (again).
I'm pretty sure Laz has the record. Or if he doesn't he'll soon hit it.
Family reunion ;-)
Sorry, "Sauropod"! :)
Of course T-rexes weren’t around at the time Brontosaurs/Apatosaurs were (Jurassic period). But Allosaurs were! :)
I was surprised to see a drawing of this new dinosaur with a duck bill type of face. Regarding hairless elephants, who now live in tropical places, didn’t mammoths and mastadons have more hair while living in icy lands?
Given their food requirements, it has always seemed unlikely (even impossible) for large pachyderms to survive, no matter how furry they were. The amount of hair probably means nothing, just genes at work.
I think the large pachyderms survived in front of the glaciers because the prairies were tall in grass and well watered from the glacial runoff.
#9 That dino threw better then obama!
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