This is the full skull of the early Triassic period amphibian Wetlugasaurus. Credit: @SamaraPolytech
Posted on 09/02/2018 3:35:20 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
This June the staff of the "Geology and Geophysics" Department of Samara Polytech took part in a scientific expedition of the Triassic and Jurassic deposits in the southeast of the Samara region.
One of the findings, made with the participation of the Flagship University scientists, was the skull of a Wetlugasaurus. Then it was just a piece of rock with bones protruding from it and it was difficult to identify anything valuable. In the process of studying the skull, it was prepared from the palate side. The teeth and internal nasal apertures - the choanae - became clearly visible.
"Experts of the leading paleontological institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow) conducted a detailed assessment of the findings", - says the senior lecturer of "Geology and Geophysics" Department Alyona Morova. She added that that they were lucky to find the fullest skull of a Wetlugasaurus in the world. Alyona also said that the news was completely unexpected for the scientists.
The expedition was held with the support and participation of the Paleontological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Samara Regional Museum of Local History named after P.V. Alabin, Samara Paleontological Society, Togliatti Local History Museum, Institute of Ecology of the Volga Basin of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The expedition was headed by Igor Novikov, a leading researcher at the Paleogerpetology Laboratory of the Paleontological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Polytech scientists were also lucky to make another unusual discovery - the remains of the postcranial skeleton (more than 170 fragments) of one specimen of Labyrinthodont. In addition, they collected zoological materials of modern mammals and herbarium specimens of plants, including several rare and Red Book species.
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This is the full skull of the early Triassic period amphibian Wetlugasaurus. Credit: @SamaraPolytech
That is what I would expect “Toothless’”, from how to train your Dragon, skull to look like.
Wet Lurgee Saurus, a lunger slinging nightmare of the dinosaur she.
Wetlugasaurus: Sounds like the name of a politician from New Jersey
Can you say “Night Fury”.
“she”?!
I typed “age”.
I hate autocorrect.
Wetlugasaurus? Was that some prince or king among the Goths?
Scientists used to be much better at naming dinosaurs.
This Wetluga looks pretty dry to me.
Wetlugasuarus? “The Meg” McCain at the beach?
I keep auto-correct turned off.
I do allow spellcheck to identify (underline) misspelled word, however, so I can determine whether I want to make the suggested changes.
"Thanks for the visual! Oh! Ohhhh!" -- Sam Kinison
Wetlugasuarus? “The Meg” McCain at the beach?
I think I’m gonna hurl.
I am the Wetlugasaurus,
Coo Coo Ca Choo
According to German Wikipedia, Wetluga in German refers to a small Russian town and river, which is spelled “Vetluga” in English.
Wikipedia locates the Wetlugasaurus in northern Russia and Greenland.
Best guess - the first Wetlugasaurus fossils were discovered by German academics.
Wetlugasaurus?
Their main defensive weapon was launching lung-oysters at their foes?
How closely was it related to the Drylugasaurus?
(Just insulted Wetlugasaurians everywhere. )
It went extinct because other dinosaurs got fed up with it sticking its wet talons in their ears.
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