Talarurus plicatospineus
By Jack Wood on @thewoodparable
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Name: Talarurus plicatospineus
Name Meaning: Wicker Tail
First Described: 1952
Described By: Maleev
Classification: Dinosauria, Ornithischia, Genasauria, Thyreophora, Eurypoda, Ankylosauria, Ankylosauridae, Ankylosaurinae, Ankylosaurini
Talarurus is a rather interestingly proportioned Ankylosaur from the Byan Shiree Formation of Mongolia, living sometime around the Santonian age of the Late Cretacoues, perhaps about 86 million years ago (though the exact timing is under some debate). It is known from multiple specimens, showing much of the skull and skeleton, as well as osteoderms, though the original specimen is poorly preserved. It has distinct ornaments on its head, including small tubercular osteoderms on the roof of the skull, and the armor tiles of the head being symmetrical and low on the nose and snout, and it has a V-shaped raised area on the front of the snout.
By José Carlos Cortés on @ryuukibart
Talarurus was about five meters long, with a long stiffened tail and a club at the end of it. It had a long and narrow skull, and is one of the oldest known Ankylosaurids from Asia, and though it is often displayed as looking like a Cotylorhynchus with osteoderms, it certainly would have had an upright gate, and probably wouldn’t have looked all that much different from other Ankylosaurids. It lived in a lowland floodplain environment (rather than a desert one like other Asian Ankylosaurids such as Saichania, which may indicate why it’s snout is significantly different from that group of Ankylosaurs). It lived alongside other dinosaurs such as Erlikosaurus, Garudimimus, Alectrosaurus, Amtosaurus, Segnosaurus, Achillobator, and Tsagantegia.
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talarurus
https://paleobiodb.org/navigator/
Arbour, V. M, & P. J. Currie. 2015. Systematics, phylogeny and palaeobiogeography of the ankylosaurid dinosaurs. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology DOI: 10.1080/14772019.2015.1059985
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