[dinosaur] New Brazilian dinosaur + social tyrannosaurs + Montana dinosaurs + Alanqa + mosasaur find + more

Ben Creisler

bcreisler@gmail.com

Some recent items:

New dinosaur from Cruzeiro do Oeste in Brazil to be presented to press and public on June 26 (in Portuguese)

https://maringapost.com.br/sala3/2019/06/24/nova-especie-de-dinossauro-vai-ser-apresentada-na-quarta-feira-na-uem/

https://gmconline.com.br/noticias/parana/nova-especie-de-dinossauro-e-descoberta-em-sitio-paleontologico-do-pr

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"Social group" tyrannosaur find in Utah, with video

https://www.ksl.com/article/46580183/tyrannosaurus-a-social-creature

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Discovering and preserving Montana's dinosaurs

https://www.abcfoxmontana.com/great-falls/discovering-and-preserving-montana-s-dinosaurs/article_0c1e5986-973c-11e9-906e-4b0eac1af5c0.html

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Garden Park Fossil Area
The site of the "Bone Wars" between two rival paleontologists during the dinosaur rush of the 19th century.Â

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/garden-park-fossil-area-dinosaur-quarry-bone-wars

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Making tracks: Walking in the footsteps of New England dinosaurs

https://www.bostonglobe.com/lifestyle/travel/2019/06/18/making-tracks-walking-footsteps-new-england-dinosaurs/cBGkVczVuP7EAOgZCOdL8J/story.html

Tianyulong - small fuzzy dragon with canines in its mouth (in Czech)

https://dinosaurusblog.com/2019/06/24/hunaty-drak-se-spicaky-v-tlame/Â

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The ancient croc that preyed on dinosaurs

https://phys.org/news/2019-06-ancient-croc-preyed-dinosaurs.html

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Opal, Ornithopods, and Australia

http://www.drneurosaurus.com/2019/06/opal-ornithopods-and-australia/

Alanqa: Beast of the Week

http://prehistoricbeastoftheweek.blogspot.com/2019/06/alanqa-beast-of-week.html

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Miners discover fossil of 70-million-year-old mosasaur 'sea monster' in mine near Lethbridge in Canada

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/mososaur-fossil-ammomite-mine-lethbridge-1.5187842

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Francemys (in Spanish)

http://divulgauned.es/francemys/

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New season of digs at Cretaceous ÂBakony site in Hungary to begin, with fossil birds a special interest (in Hungarian)

https://www.origo.hu/tudomany/20190620-85-millio-eves-madarleletek-utan-kutatnak-az-iharkuti-lelohelyen.html

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New season of scientific digs begins at Messel Pit fossil site in Germany, using precise GPS tools (in German)

https://idw-online.de/de/news717949

When the Maori First Settled New Zealand, They Hunted Flightless, 500-Pound Moas

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/what-is-biggest-bird

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A pterosaur in the iron ore? A century later, this Bell Island legend lives on

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/pterodactyl-fact-check-1.5186838

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Model of Permian therapsid predator Leogorgon (measuring 6 m) now on display in Totma in Russia (note that the status of Leogorgon is problematic--the scrappy type material may be a chimera with a dicynodont braincase) (in Russian)

http://cultinfo.ru/news/2019/6/the-largest-carnivore-of-the-permian-period-settle

See scientific issues with Leogorgon here:

https://peerj.com/articles/1608/ÂÂ