Meet Tlatolophus!

[suspsy]

A new hadrosaur from Mexico!

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0195667121001312?fbclid=IwAR21GNjKktEjLiLWCvSqrOjovMVE3-n9S3rTqWL6u8EoQhpG_6mUeof7Fps

[Faelrin]

Oh nice they have the skull (and some of the post cranial material, mostly the back end of the animal), and it looks similar to Parasaurolophus and Charonosaurus (of course I rushed to check out the images, to see if this was fragmentary or not, before getting too interested, before even reading the title of the paper specifying that it has been assigned to tribe Parasaurolophini, so duh).

A shame the paper is paywalled, but hopefully there will be press reportings, and gorgeous artwork reconstructions out there on this soon enough.

[andrewsaurus rex]

found this picture

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E1G_R1yVUAICkKx.jpg

Any indication of size, the provided link kept going blank so I was barely able to read anything.

[stoneage]

I had the same problem with the link.

[Dusty Wren]

A new hadrosaur is always cause for celebration!

Any indication of size, the provided link kept going blank so I was barely able to read anything.

That's odd; the link is working fine for me. There are no measurements in the abstract, just a length/height ratio for the skull. Best I could find was this image of the skull from the paper, which includes a scale bar.

[Concavenator]

That is a beautiful dinosaur! Wow, that's a great discovery for sure. Already one of my favorite hadrosaurids.

[andrewsaurus rex]

thanks Dusy.

so the head is roughly the same size as P walkeri....a bit smaller.

[Halichoeres]

The authors estimate total length at 12m. If anybody wants a pdf, pm me your email address.

[sauroid]

would be awesome to see this in plastic figure form.

[sauroid]

Gabriel Ugueto's rendition of this species

[Justin_]

Illustration by Marco A. Pineda taken from this summary of the paper here: http://novataxa.blogspot.com/2021/05/tlatolophus.html

[Shonisaurus]

We need a toy figure tlatolophus. Maybe Collecta, Safari or PNSO?

[Kapitaenosavrvs]

Gabriel Ugueto's rendition of this species

This already looks like a Figure from PNSO

This new Species was really all over the News and a lot of people bombarded me links to Articles
A really beautiful Animal/Reconstruction. I can't wait for more on this and maybe future Figures. But i bet, this will come quickly with all that media attention.
An estimated 12m is also not that small. Nice.

[triceratops83]

This has gotta be the first sculpture of Tlatolophus, right?

[Faelrin]

First one I've seen. Wonderful work on it too. Love the coloration.

[Dusty Wren]

Love how expressive that model is. It feels alive, like the dino is mid alarm call and hoofing it out of there to avoid a predator.

I take it you made this one, @triceratops83? What clay did you use?

[triceratops83]

@Faelrin - Thanks! We should all have an informal contest to see who can paint/draw/sculpt the first version of a recently announced species...

@Dusty Wren - Thanks for the comments! Yeah, I made it with Sculpey III, though I always fill out the insides with a cheaper brand of polymer clay.