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Huehuecuanauhtlus

  • 17-02-2012 12:05am
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,279 ✭✭✭


    New hadrosauroid dinosaur- related possibly to Gilmoreosaurus- found in Michoacan, México (good year for Mexican paleontology :D)
    No info on its size just yet, but it seems that it lived 85 million years ago. It happens to be the first new dinosaur found in Michoacan, as well as the first endemic (thus far) ornithopod from Mexico AND the first dinosaur to have a nahuatl name, nahuatl being the language of the Aztec. (Quetzalcoatlus doesn´t count, of course). Huehuecanauhtlus means "ancient duck".

    http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/abs/10.1139/e11-062


Comments

  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,746 ✭✭✭✭Galvasean


    Hoo-hee-ha-what now?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,279 ✭✭✭Adam Khor


    Galvasean wrote: »
    Hoo-hee-ha-what now?

    I think the pronunciation would be "weh-weh-kan-auh-tlus"


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,746 ✭✭✭✭Galvasean


    Damnded troll scientists. :mad:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    Galvasean wrote: »
    Hoo-hee-ha-what now?


    All I can say is:

    Yes I thought this too.

    Why can't they just use simple names like.... Tom.

    I can pronounce Tom, even with me teeth out.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,279 ✭✭✭Adam Khor


    Rubecula wrote: »
    All I can say is:

    Yes I thought this too.

    Why can't they just use simple names like.... Tom.

    I can pronounce Tom, even with me teeth out.

    And have the ultimate super predator eventually named Chip or something? :(


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