Paleo discoveries of 2022

I know that it's late. But we still have important stuff here.

Famous dinosaur artist Gregory S. Paul says that T. rex was 3 different species. Rex, Impererator (Latin for emperor) , and Regina (Latin for queen).

https://nypost.com/2022/03/06/t-rex-might-actually-be-three-separate-species-study/

In fairness, a lot of people disagree with this.



Leg of a Thescelosaurus found with skin still on it found in North Dakota has been dated to the exact day the dinosaurs died out.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2022/04/12/dinosaur-fossil-asteroid-hit-earth/7276551001/


A new anklyosaurid found in Southwest China has been named and described as Yuxisaurus. It lived in the early Jurassic period and was 9.8 ft long.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/17/world/yuxisaurus-kopchicki-dinosaur-species-scn/index.html

70 million year old titanosaur found in Spain named and described as Abditosaurus. It was 17.5 meters long.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/02/220207124822.htm

New abelisaur found in South America named and described as Guemeisa
http://www.sci-news.com/paleontology/guemesia-ochoai-10578.html

Should have posted this in the first post, since it was found in very early March.

The oldest known member of the stegosaur family, found in Mid Juassic rock formation inside China has been named and described as Bashanosaurus. It was just 9 ft long and the one found may have been a juvenile.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/03/world/stegosaur-fossil-discovery-scn/index.html

New megaraptorid found in Patagonia.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-09272-z

New therizinosaur found in Japan named and described as Paralitherizinosaurus Japonicus.

Small tyrannosaurus thighbone around 100 million years old found in Southeast Idaho.

New ceratopian found in the Judith River Formation (Montana, USA) has been named and described as Spiclypeus. It lived 76 mya and had horns on the outer part of the frill.

HUGE NEWS

Frozen female baby woolly mammoth found in the Klondike region of the Yukon Territory, Canada. It's 30, 000 years old.

The dinosaurs survived their first major threat, a volcanic winter at the end of the Triassic, due to being warm blooded and having feathers.

New super allosaur found in Argentina back in 2012 officially named and described as Meraxes gigas. It was 36 ft long and 4.5 tons.It lived between 100 to 90 million years ago.

Pleisosaur fossils found in the Kem Kem Formation (Morraco). This proves that some did live in fresh water.

This is also the same place where the Spinosaurus neotype was found. So it's fair to say that Spinosaurus did eat meat after all.

30 ft mosasaur skeleton found in North Texas. It has been dated as being 80 million years old.

That one study that said that T. rex was really 3 different species got debunked.

New finds found.

New ceratopian found in Northwest New Mexico named and described as Bisticeratops froeseorum. It is 18 ft long, lived 75 mya, and was a close relative of both Pentaceratops and Bravoceratops.

82 ft long brachiosaur (Lusotitan perhaps) found in a man's garden in Portugal. It was from the Late Jurassic period.

30 ft long Gryposaurus found in Montana.

A new 33ft long Late Triassic theropod found in Sweden.

Theropods that size in the Late Triassic were always considered, but now we got proof. A bit odd that it was found in Sweden of all places.

A pair of ornithomimids have been found in Mississippi. Both are 85 million years old.

Bones of a teenage T. rex found in South Dakota.

T. rex footprint found in Alaska.

Speaking of tyrannosaurs...A new species of Daspletosaurus has been named and described.

A new semi-aquatic raptor found in Mongolia has been named and described as Natovenator polydontus.