Xenotarsosaurus - Episode 167
I Know Dino: The Big Dinosaur Podcast
I KNOW DINO, LLC
4.7 • 653 Ratings
🗓️ 7 February 2018
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
We got to chat with Dr. Alexander Hastings, @Dr_CrocoGator, who researched dinosaurs in comic books and who works as the assistant curator of paleontology at the Virginia Museum of Natural History.
In the news: A new Egyptian titanosaur Mansourasaurus fills in a huge gap in our knowledge; Jurassic World is getting a live arena show; The iconic Flintstone house in Hillsborough, California, has some new dinosaurs; and much more
Dinosaur of the day Xenotarsosaurus, an 18ft (5.4m) abelisaurid
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| 0:31.6 | Music Hello and welcome to I Know Dino. I'm Garrett. |
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| 0:49.3 | This week we have an interview with Dr. Alexander Hastings, and we have Dinosaur of the Day, Xenotarsosaurus, and a bunch of dinosaur news. |
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| 1:35.4 | Jumping right into the news, we have a new paper about a new sauropod from Africa. |
| 1:43.0 | And it was published in nature ecology and evolution, |
| 1:45.9 | and written by Hasham M. Salam and others. |
| 1:49.9 | It's a titanosaur from the Sahara Desert, and it's named Mansurosaurus, Shahine, |
| 1:57.6 | and Mansurosaurus is named after Mansura University, which was where most of the researchers on the publication were from. |
| 2:09.6 | Interestingly, Mansura University is north of Cairo. |
| 2:13.6 | It's in the Nile River Delta, and this was actually found hundreds of miles southwest, you know, past Cairo and everything, in central Egypt. |
| 2:23.4 | But I think they have one of the better paleontology programs in the area. |
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