New Sauropods and the Yale Peabody has Reopened!

Susan Butts joins us to explain all the changes and upgrades at the newly renovated Yale Peabody Museum! Plus, new sauropods from Argentina include Campananeyen and a couple of unnamed titanosauriforms. And Australotitan may be a junior synonym.

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Dinosaur of the day Ruyangosaurus, a very large titanosauriform sauropod from the Early Cretaceous.

Interview with Susan Butts, the Director of Collections & Research at the Yale Peabody Museum and her background is as an invertebrate paleontologist

In dinosaur news this week:

• There’s a new rebbachisaurid, Campananeyen fragilissimus
• There are new titanosauriform sauropods in the Portezuelo Formation of Patagonia
• Australotitan (a.k.a.) “Cooper” may be a junior synonym of the sauropod Diamantinasaurus

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