New Sauropods and the Yale Peabody has Reopened!

I Know Dino: The Big Dinosaur Podcast

Susan Butts joins us to explain all the changes and upgrades at the newly renovated Yale Peabody Museum! Plus, new sauropods from Argentina include Campananeyen and a couple of unnamed titanosauriforms. And Australotitan may be a junior synonym.

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Dinosaur of the day Ruyangosaurus, a very large titanosauriform sauropod from the Early Cretaceous.

Interview with Susan Butts, the Director of Collections & Research at the Yale Peabody Museum and her background is as an invertebrate paleontologist

In dinosaur news this week:

• There’s a new rebbachisaurid, Campananeyen fragilissimus
• There are new titanosauriform sauropods in the Portezuelo Formation of Patagonia
• Australotitan (a.k.a.) “Cooper” may be a junior synonym of the sauropod Diamantinasaurus

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