Posted on 07/20/2018 11:05:23 AM PDT by ETL
Researchers have unearthed a new armored dinosaur in Utah, a new species of ankylosaur, known as Akainacephalus johnsoni.
The catch? It lived on the lost continent known as Laramidia.
A. johnsoni, a member of the ankylosaurid family, lived 76 million years ago in what is now southern Utah, but was once a land mass known as Laramidia, an island continent that split North America in two. Eventually, the sea shrank and the two parts combined to form what is now known as North America. ..."
Measuring between 13 and 16 feet in length and 3.5 feet tall, Akainacephalus jonhnsoni is slightly smaller than its more well known cousin, Ankylosaurus, which measured between 23 and 35 feet in length.
Similar to the Ankylosaurus, Akainacephalus had bony armor covering its entire body and had spikes and horns on its skull.
The fossilized remains contain a complete skull, a significant part of the vertebral column, "including a complete tail club," as well as several parts of its fore and hind limbs and "bony body armor that includes two neck rings and spiked armor plates."
The fossil, found in 2008, is the "most complete skeleton" of an ankylosaurid dinosaur found in the southwestern U.S., the statement added.
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Yeah, one of of those thingys.
Thanks for the nice paleomap.
“So, the initial conditions make the simulation appear to be 4 billion years old, but the simulation has only been running 6000 years.”
Descartes ruled that out when he showed that God is not an evil deceiver.
Looks like a long ago ancestor of our Texas Horny Toads.
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