Daily Dose of Prehistory Revival 23: Zuul crurivastator
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happy_frog
· 4 years ago
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There is no crurivastator. There is only Zuul.
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· 4 years ago
Zuul crurivastator, its generic name being a reference to the demigod from Ghostbusters and its specific name meaning "Shank Destroyer", was a species of ankylosaurine dinosaur that lived in what is now Montana during the Late Cretaceous about 75 million years ago. Named because of its resemblance to Zuul, especially because of the horns on that back of its head, Zuul crurivastator was a fairly standard ankylosaur measuring 20ft long and weighing 2 and a half tons. What was unique was that its type specimen (which is the first specimen of a specific animal/plant/etc. discovered) was actually mummified before it fossilized and was found with keratin, scales, osteoderms, and skin when it was discovered by accident in 2014.
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