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Pennsylvania Professor Helped Name New Dinosaur
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Dinosaurs from the Santonian–Campanian Atlantic coastline substantiate phylogenetic signatures of vicariance in Cretaceous North America
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A “talkative” dinosaur that lived about 73 million years ago has been unearthed in the Mexican state of Coahuila. Excavations revealed its tail, 80% of its skull, its crest that measured 1.32 meters (4.3 feet), and several bones including the shoulder and femur.
Called
Tlatolophus galorum, this large herbivore dinosaur “…had ears with the capacity of hearing low-frequency sounds, so they must have been peaceful but talkative dinosaurs,” according to a statement from Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH).
Palaeontologists have even claimed that the new species probably “emitted strong sounds to scare away predators or for reproductive purposes.” Interestingly, the shape of the dinosaur’s crest looked similar to a “symbol used by Mesoamerican people in ancient manuscripts to represent the action of communication and knowledge itself.” A picture of what the
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Menefeeratops sealeyi roamed a tropical New Mexico 82 million years ago. It is the oldest species of the horned dinosaurs, the best known of them being triceratops. (Courtesy of New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science)
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A new type of horned dinosaur, whose 82-million-year-old fossilized remains were found near Cuba in 1993, is believed to be the oldest representative of all the horned dinosaurs that have yet been discovered, said Spencer Lucas, curator of paleontology at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science.
The blue highlighted area portrays the bones found in the Menefeeceratops sealeyi skeleton discovered in the area of Cuba by Paul Sealey, a researcher at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science. (Courtesy of New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science)
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