New Quilled African dinosaur Discovered by Sereno

[amargasaurus cazaui]

http://news.yahoo.com/tiny-african-dinosaur-species-unveiled-011448836.html


This little guy is wicked !!! And check out all the quills !! Imagine he had this for thirty years and never mentioned it .

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[Gryphoceratops]

Yeah a cool little find.  I'm friendly with the artist, Tyler Keillor, who sculpted the model of this little guy for Sereno.  Teehee I like the little comb structure they gave it on the snout.  Here is another link if anyone is interested. 

http://news.uchicago.edu/article/2012/10/03/dwarf-species-fanged-dinosaur-emerges-southern-africa

[ZoPteryx]

Hooray for wacky heterodontosaurs!

[Balaur]

Best dino ever found (excluding Yutyrannus and Sciurumimus) this year. 

[Jetoar]

Best dino ever found (excluding Yutyrannus and Sciurumimus) this year. 

I agree with you but the spanish hadrosaur is not bat .

[Balaur]

Best dino ever found (excluding Yutyrannus and Sciurumimus) this year. 

I agree with you but the spanish hadrosaur is not bat .

No, they are beautiful. 

[TheAllosaur]

Did it really have that crest? So cool, a Porcupine Dinosaur.
Sereno is bound to find more!

[ZoPteryx]

Did it really have that crest? So cool, a Porcupine Dinosaur.
Sereno is bound to find more!

I think the quills are just speculation, based on its relative Tianyulong.

[Yutyrannus]

Did it really have that crest? So cool, a Porcupine Dinosaur.
Sereno is bound to find more!

I think the quills are just speculation, based on its relative Tianyulong.

No, the quills were actually found. A very cool dinosaur. I was beginning to think Paul Sereno had retired or something because he hasn't been mentioned in the news in almost 2 years. I am very glad he isn't, he is probably my favorite paleontologist.

[amargasaurus cazaui]

Did it really have that crest? So cool, a Porcupine Dinosaur.
Sereno is bound to find more!

I think the quills are just speculation, based on its relative Tianyulong.

No, the quills were actually found. A very cool dinosaur. I was beginning to think Paul Sereno had retired or something because he hasn't been mentioned in the news in almost 2 years. I am very glad he isn't, he is probably my favorite paleontologist.

A friend actually posted the paper about the dinosaur where it stated the quills were based off the fact Tianyulong had them. I have it over in the "Everything Psittacosaurus " Thread if you wanted to review the actual paper. If you got ahold of more information to confirm the quills would love to see it...can you post the source or where you saw it?I do have alot of commentary about the find over in the Psittacosaurus thread as well about this one, since he is quite similar to tianyulong . Either way I think its an awesome dinosaur and so glad Sereno got it done

[Yutyrannus]

It says it here.

 
Click Here.

[amargasaurus cazaui]

It says it here.

 
Click Here.

I did look at that article, if you read it carefully it never actually states they found bristles on the fossil. He presumed it would have them based on Tianyulong, and he does give the impression he found them, but does not actually state it. In addition the paper on the dinosaur states clearly that the bristles were inferred due to tianyulong. I got confused the same way before Both Gryph and Wings made it clear for me as well. Although it is likely the dinosaur had them, there is no actual proof.

[Gryphoceratops]

Did it really have that crest? So cool, a Porcupine Dinosaur.
Sereno is bound to find more!

I think the quills are just speculation, based on its relative Tianyulong.

No, the quills were actually found. A very cool dinosaur. I was beginning to think Paul Sereno had retired or something because he hasn't been mentioned in the news in almost 2 years. I am very glad he isn't, he is probably my favorite paleontologist.

There is no evidence of quills found on this specimen.  Check out the actual paper.