[dinosaur] Dinosaur classifications + Chilesaurus + sauropod tracks at Maotai + Jurassic Beach fossils + more

Ben Creisler

bcreisler@gmail.com

Some recent items

Updates on the conflicting classification of dinosaurs

https://www.geol.umd.edu/~tholtz/G104/lectures/104dinorise.html

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More on Chilesaurus

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/aug/17/chilesaurus-dinosaur-discovery-family-tree

http://theropoda.blogspot.com/2017/08/chilesaurus-e-un-ornithischio-in.html

https://paleonerdish.wordpress.com/2017/08/17/the-enigmatic-chilesaurus-and-the-evolution-of-ornithischian-dinosaurs/

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/deadthings/2017/08/15/new-evidence-for-that-huge-dinosaur-family-tree-rewrite/

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Jurassic sauropod tracks discovered near Maotai Township (otherwise famous for a potent type of distilled sorghum liquor) in Guizhou Province are largest grouping (200+) found in China

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2017-08/16/content_30689106.htm

http://modernjournal24.com/largest-cluster-of-sauropod-footprint-fossils-ever-found-in-china/

The tracks are preserved with water ripples (photo) (in Chinese)

http://www.uua.cn/show-8-8292-1.html

New hadrosaur tracks found in Coahuila region of Mexico (in Spanish)

http://www.milenio.com/cultura/dinosaurios-hadrodaurios-coahuila-general_cepeda-inah-milenio_noticias-laguna_0_1012099147.html

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Remains of two types of dinosaurs found in Castilla-La Mancha in Spain (in Spanish)

https://www.guadaque.com/en-sacedon-se-han-descubierto-restos-de-dos-tipos-de-dinosaurios

Lucianovenator (in Spanish)

http://noticiasdelaciencia.com/not/25444/lucianovenator-un-dinosaurio-fuera-del-valle-de-la-luna

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Diego Pol explains why giant dinosaurs like Patagotitan come from Patagonia (in Spanish)

https://www.pagina12.com.ar/56779-por-que-los-dinosaurios-gigantes-son-patagonicos

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Chinese dinosaurs in Nottingham (Part 1)

https://chasmosaurs.blogspot.com/2017/08/dinosaurs-of-china-in-nottingham-part-1.html

Continuing special exhibit "Franconia on the Jurassic Beach" at the Bamberg Natural History Museum includes fossils of a large turtle bitten by a crocodile, a coelacanth, and a marine crocodile, but star is yet-to-be-named filter-feeding pterosaur (made a national cultural asset or Kulturgut)

http://www.naturkundemuseum-bamberg.de/index.php/en/special-exhibitions/franconia-on-the-jurassic-beach

in German

http://www.infranken.de/regional/bamberg/urzeitliche-neufunde-aus-wattendorf-im-naturkunde-museum;art212,2828742

The pterosaur find was announced in 2012

https://www.thelocal.de/20120824/44563

Discussed on page 86 of the 2016 EAVP abstracts

http://www.eavp.oscartrapman.nl/EAVP%202016%20Haarlem%20Programme%20and%20Abstracts.pdf

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SVP coming to Calgary

http://theropoda.blogspot.com/2017/08/chilesaurus-e-un-ornithischio-in.html

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Birds, descendants of feathered dinosaurs (in German)

https://scilogs.spektrum.de/hyperraumtv/voegel-nachfahren-der-gefiederten-dinos/

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Turtle evolution

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/tetrapod-zoology/letters-from-the-world-of-turtle-evolution/

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