Giant Hadrosaur "Walter" with skin impressions

[ZoPteryx]

http://www.theheraldtimes.com/dinosaur-with-skin-on-a-rare-paleontology-find/rio-blanco-county/

The skin impressions sound pretty standard for hadrosaurs, but the specimen's size is exceptional, definitely the upper end of the hadrosaur spectrum.  Wonder if it'll turn out to be a new taxa or a morph of Edmontosaurus.

And good to see the local community getting involved. 

[Newt]

That's fantastic! It'll be interesting to see what he turns out to be. I guess so far the only North American hadrosaurs known to reach such sizes are Edmontosaurus and Magnapaulia. I'm not sure if that part of Colorado falls into the northern or the southern Laramidian region; I know there's not much overlap in duckbill genera between the two.

[Faelrin]

I'm looking forward to a paper on this find. I want to see those impressions, though I doubt they'll be much different from other hardosaur pebbly scales. Still, what an exciting find.

[Dinoguy2]

That's fantastic! It'll be interesting to see what he turns out to be. I guess so far the only North American hadrosaurs known to reach such sizes are Edmontosaurus and Magnapaulia. I'm not sure if that part of Colorado falls into the northern or the southern Laramidian region; I know there's not much overlap in duckbill genera between the two.

Recent work has suggested that the apparent separation between north and south Laramidia is just due to poorly calibrated stratigraphy. Once you sort the stratigraphy out it becomes more likely these species are only separated by time, and did not coexist.

[Newt]

Recent work has suggested that the apparent separation between north and south Laramidia is just due to poorly calibrated stratigraphy. Once you sort the stratigraphy out it becomes more likely these species are only separated by time, and did not coexist.

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