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I began reading "Tethyshadros insularis, a new hadrosauroid dinosaur (Ornithischia) from the Upper Cretaceous of Italy."
"But I could sleep with you there. I could sleep with you there." greygirlbeast 2009
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Day before yesterday, I finished reading the paper on Tethyshadros and began reading "A new basal sauropodomorph dinosaur from the upper Elliot Formation [Lower Jurassic] of South Africa."
"What a fantastic death abyss." greygirlbeast 2009
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Tethyshadros the most 'reduced' hand of any iguanodontian - and the three remaining metacarpals are long, slender, and closely appressed.
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Tethyshadros inhabited a Cuba-sized island that was at the northern end of what's known as the Adriatic-Dinarian Carbonate Platform (ADCP) [see adjacent palaeo-map, courtesy F.M. Dalla Vecchia].
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Tethyshadros takes the serrated edges to an extreme: the premaxillary denticles are long, forward-pointing spikes.
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Tethyshadros, and again here is an indication that this animal was a specialised cursor [reconstruction below from from Dalla Vecchia (2009)].
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Tethyshadros specimens are known and include a partial skeleton, an isolated skull and various additional isolated bones or limbs (Dalla Vecchia 2009).
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Tethyshadros is a weird, and very newsworthy, beast; in part because it represents a really interesting divergence from typical hadrosaur morphology.
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Seen within this context, Tethyshadros is perhaps not such a big deal: it's a slight variation on the plan, being a small-bodied, gracile-limbed taxon with a peculiar snout and modified hand.
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Tethyshadros skeleton that this was a specialised cursor: in the hindlimb, the tibia is longer than the femur (the hadrosaur femur is normally longer than, or subequal to, the tibia).
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