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I Know Dino: The Big Dinosaur Podcast

Lythronax - Episode 52

I Know Dino: The Big Dinosaur Podcast

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Iknowdino, Science, Dinosaurs, Dinosaur Podcast, Earth Sciences, Dinosaur, Natural Sciences, Education

4.7653 Ratings

🗓️ 23 November 2015

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Dinosaur news, including new ornithomimosaur Tototlmimus packardensis, a "Dinosaurs of Utah" museum in Japan, The Good Dinosaur, and more. Also, dinosaur of the day Lythronax, the earliest known tyrannosaurid from Laramidia.

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Music now. Hello and welcome to I know Dino.

0:32.6

I'm Gareth.

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And I'm Sabrina.

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And today we'll be talking about life thrown acts, our guesties, as well as a bunch of dinosaur news.

0:41.2

And next week we'll be reviewing the good dinosaur. So I can look forward to that. And then maybe you don't want to listen to the next episode until you see the movie.

0:52.5

And just another thank you to our supporters on Patreon.

0:56.4

If you'd like to support us, you can go to patreon.com slash I-N-O-Dino, and Patreon is spelled

1:02.8

P-A-T-R-E-O-N.

1:06.0

First in the news is a article out of the journal Cretaceous research, a new Ornithamimid dinosaur from the

1:13.1

Upper Cretaceous Packard Shale formation in the Cabuiana group of Sonara, Mexico. It was written by

1:20.8

Claudia Inez, Serrano, Braggias, and some others. So when I think of Mexico and dinosaurs, I'm usually thinking about the Chixilube,

1:30.2

which is that impact site that corresponds to the KT extinction.

1:34.4

But there have been quite a few dinosaurs discovered there, and now there's one more.

1:38.6

So the new genus and species of ornithamimosaur is named Totlimimus Packardensis. Being a dinosaur fan, you might know that Ornithamimisor is named Totlimimus Pachrodensis. Being a dinosaur fan, you might know

1:47.3

that Ornithamimid means bird mimic in Greek, and the word tottle, and I might be pronouncing that

1:54.5

wrong, is Nahwadl, which is the language that the Aztec spoke for bird making Tototlmimus another way of saying bird mimic.

2:06.0

So the species name refers to the formation where the dinosaur was found, the Packard Shale in Mexico's

2:11.8

State Sonora, which is just south of Arizona and New Mexico in the U.S.

2:16.6

And the authors say that Tototlmimimus Packardensis is the first definitive ornithimid

2:22.5

described from Mexico, although another potential ornithymid called Saltyomimus, rapidus,

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