July 2023 Paleontology in Review

[@ChrisFixedKitty]

I always enjoy the monthly summary and explanation. As an enthusiast, it really helps to have someone keep up with the literature for the rest of us!

[@RaptorChatter]

Glad you enjoy it! I really appreciate it since these video get less traction than many of the others

[@RedexTwo]

@@RaptorChatterthese videos are my favorite! It’s so nice getting an overview for the month. It’s a shame these videos don’t get as many views.

[@catarinacorreia2747]

I absolutely love this monthly series. Makes it so easy to keep track of all the new discoveries. Thank you so much

[@RaptorChatter]

Glad you enjoy it!

[@calvingrondahl1011]

Your monthly review of dinosaur discoveries is very interesting and helpful. thank you RC.

[@RaptorChatter]

You're welcome! Glad to hear it's appreciated!

[@posticusmaximus1739]

I love these videos, its cool to stay up to date with paleo developments

[@RaptorChatter]

Thanks! We really appreciate it.

[@glenncullen4378]

Love these monthly updates. Please keep it up.

[@Simsimnaonao-h9y]

thank you, really, thank you for your monthly review

[@nathancomixproductions466]

"Don't go extinct?"? Usually, you don't use that phrase in question.

[@robertjames8183]

Love these videos. Such a great way to give people a taste of a bunch of different topics that they can look further into if they choose to do so. Keep up the great work!

[@dannybrown5744]

Love learning from you . Don't know all the phrases and what they mean but I can follow and if I watch enough I'll catch on I'm sure.

[@swabianscience]

If I'm not mistaken, the soft tissue preservation of ichthyosaur blubber is from the toarcian posidonia shale of the Holzmaden region in Baden-Württemberg, not from the tithonian solnhofen limestone - both are great lagerstätten, but quite different in terms of preservation and age. You can actually visit a quarry yourself there, it's called "Schieferbruch Kromer" in Ohmden, right next to Holzmaden!

[@RaptorChatter]

Sorry about that! I was mostly looking at the taphonomy stuff, so must have just skimmed past the locality

[@Turdfergusen382]

July Review! Let’s go!

[@RalseiGaming]

Bit of a odd question to put in the comments but i recently obtained a confuciusornis indet, chaoyang city, liaoning province. But the fossil has some weird irregularities in the wings and legs which don’t quite match all of the older fossils such as having a extra bone of each of its talons and it has some fossilized feathers on the tail that don’t match the arch shape of the other fossils with feathers which makes me have doubts it’s actually a confuciusornis indet and rather something else. my question is do you know anyone i should go to in the united states to bring the fossil for further examination

[@RalseiGaming]

likely it has other irregularities i haven’t noticed yet

[@u1849ka]

@@RalseiGaming American Museum of Natural History?

[@RalseiGaming]

@@u1849ka Thats kinda a last resort idea because its really far away from me

[@gastonestbon5439]

Email your nearest museum.

[@RalseiGaming]

@@gastonestbon5439that’s the first thing i did im also trying to see if i can get it xrayed

[@cw7429]

Great video!

[@RaptorChatter]

Thanks!

[@Pugfeathers]

Really like your shirt.

[@highfive7689]

Eerily the tunicates remind me of the heart muscle. With it's in and out actions and tubes. We might just have living tunicates in us. I have to say I think we are nothing more than colony creatures ourselves. Only once in a while do we see glimpses into our ancient pass to link our linages. Well, that's my flight of fancy for today... lol

[@wcdeich4]

Is Triloafasaurus a lepodosauromorph? Or more basal diapsid?

[@Sirdilophosaurusthethird2.0]

Ah yes climate change is related to this

[@monkeymanchronicles]

Many institutions of equal credentials are publishing paleontology papers and are publishing climate papers.

[@fredbloggs8072]

I imagine the context note above was added by the KZbin bot because climate change was mentioned at one point in the video. It's not smart enough to realize the climate change mentioned happened 200 million years ago, and was probably due to volcanism.

[@professorsimosuchus7954]

KZbin has been tagging anything vaguely paleontology related eith that climate change thing

[@metoo3342]

Well a lot of paleontology is piecing together ancient climates and ecosystems.

[@realdaggerman105]

@@metoo3342Palaeoclimatology is sick.

[@waywardscythe3358]

Is the archosaur ancestor of dinosaurs thought to be bipedal? I'm just an interested layperson but it looks like all the dinosaur quadrupeds come from biped ancestors.

[@u1849ka]

My understanding, looking at animals like Herrerasaurus and Plateosaurus, it's my understanding that dinosaurs started as bipedal, yeah.

[@eybaza6018]

​@@u1849kaBuriolestes is the most basal Sauropodomorph but yeah

[@sqrt2295]

The switch from quadrupedality to bipedality was very likely in the transition from basal avemetatarsalians to the ornithodirans (dinosaurs, pterosaurs, lagerpetids, silesaurids (which might be ornithischian dinos) etc.). Most big herbivorous dinosaurs then returned back to being quadrupeds.

[@RaptorChatter]

Yes! As far as we can tell they were at least facultative bipeds which could have gone down on all fours at best. But most likely being quadruped evolved later in the dinosaur lineage separately in the relevant groups.

[@waywardscythe3358]

@@RaptorChatter Thanks to you and the others for answering! I love learning about this stuff especially because the more I learn about paleontology the more the everyday animal world I live in makes sense.

[@Non_Vita]

cool😁

[@pef1960]

Lagerstätte is pronounced "Lager-stet-e".

[@birdfactsonrequest]

Winslow, AZ isn't real.

[@dannybrown5744]

I've been there

[@RaptorChatter]

If you were standing on a corner in Winslow and the Eagles weren't around would anyone know?