{"id":3384,"date":"2014-10-31T11:08:32","date_gmt":"2014-10-31T16:08:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=3384"},"modified":"2014-10-31T11:08:32","modified_gmt":"2014-10-31T16:08:32","slug":"mongolian-fossil-finds-expand-ankylosaur-family-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/mongolian-fossil-finds-expand-ankylosaur-family-tree\/","title":{"rendered":"Mongolian fossil finds expand ankylosaur family tree<img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3385\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Zaraapelta.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3385\" class=\"wp-image-3385\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Zaraapelta.jpg\" alt=\"Artist Danelle Dufault\u2019s impression of Zaraapelta nomadis, a newly-named species of ankylosaur from Mongolia. (Image credit: Danielle Dufault)\" width=\"350\" height=\"297\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Zaraapelta.jpg 495w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Zaraapelta-300x254.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3385\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Artist Danelle Dufault\u2019s impression of Zaraapelta nomadis, a newly-named species of ankylosaur from Mongolia. (Image credit: Danielle Dufault)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A new paper on ankylosaurs from Mongolia has named one new species and \u2018resurrected\u2019 another.<\/p>\n<p>The new species is <i>Zaraapelta nomadis<\/i>: \u2018<i>Zaraapelta<\/i>\u2019 is a combination of the Mongolian and Greek words for \u2018hedgehog\u2019 and \u2018shield\u2019 and refers to the elaborate pattern of bumps and grooves near the eye and a ridge along the back of the skull. Such ornamentation could have been used to attract mates.<\/p>\n<p>The \u2018resurrected\u2019 species name, <i>Tarchia kielanae<\/i>, had gone out of use after previous studies suggested that those fossils belonged to another known species, <i>Tarchia gigantea<\/i>. However, the new analysis suggests that <i>Tarchia kielanae<\/i> is a separate species after all.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1111\/zoj.12185\/abstract\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original research paper<\/span><\/a>\u00a0published in the\u00a0<em>Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society\u00a0<\/em>on\u00a0<span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_453723367\"><span class=\"aQJ\"><strong>October 27, 2014<\/strong>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h4>Victoria Arbour, University of Alberta, Alberta<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new paper on ankylosaurs from Mongolia has named one new species and \u2018resurrected\u2019 another. The new species is Zaraapelta nomadis: \u2018Zaraapelta\u2019 is a combination of the Mongolian and Greek words for \u2018hedgehog\u2019 and \u2018shield\u2019 and refers to the elaborate pattern of bumps and grooves near the eye and a ridge along the back of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3385,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[180,170,268,917,265],"class_list":["post-3384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-alberta","tag-biodiversity","tag-dinosaur","tag-evolution","tag-fossil"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Zaraapelta.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-SA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3384"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3388,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3384\/revisions\/3388"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}