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Episode 256: A new titanosaur from Kenya, footprints on Tyrants Aisle, and teaching evolution through paleoart

I Know Dino Podcast Episode 256: A new titanosaur from Kenya, footprints on Tyrants Aisle, and teaching evolution through paleoart with @paleotaissa. Plus all the other news from Day 1 of #2019SVP

Episode 256 is all about Coloradisaurus, a Triassic sauropodomorph known from a nearly complete skull that was found in Argentina.

We also interview Taissa Rodrigues, from the Universidade Federal do Espirito Santo in Brazil. She presented a poster at SVP about teaching evolution using paleoart. She also led a session on women in paleontology and had a student present a poster on a pterosaur.…

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Coloradisaurus brevis

Sources: askedmontonia, spinosaurus-the-fisher & fezraptor (long story involving incorrect neck proportions and graphic design being people’s passions, usual stuff.) 

Name: Coloradisaurus brvis

Name Meaning: Colorados Lizard

First Described: 1978

Described By: Lambert 

Classification: Dinosauria, Saurischia, Eusaurischia, Sauropodmorpha, Plateosauria, Massopoda, Massospondylidae

Coloradisaurus was another... relatively unknown sauropodomorph from the Norian to Rhaetian ages of the Late Triassic, anywhere between 228 and 201 million years ago. It was found in the Los Colorados Formation of La Rioja Province, Argentina, from which it gets its name. It is known from an almost complete skull, and it lived alongside many other dinosaurs, including Riojasaurus, Lessemsaurus, and Zupaysaurus. It probably was an herbivore, and may have been preyed upon by Zupaysaurus. 

Sources: 

http://www.prehistoric-wildlife.com/species/c/coloradisaurus.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coloradisaurus

Shout out goes to fgtron-prime!