#silvisaurus

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Silvisaurus condrayi designated official state land fossil of Kansas

Silvisaurus condrayi as depicted by Oscar Sanisidro, with bones

Silvisaurus condrayi, the only dinosaur known to have lived on the land in what is now Kansas, is again strutting its stuff in the Natural History Museum in Lawrence.

Silvisaurus is a species of armored ankylosaur that lived during the Cretaceous period 145 - 65 million years ago. At the time, Kansas was mostly inundated by the Western Interior Seaway, but Silvisaurus lived in a forested shoreline, indicated by an abundance of fossil leaves discovered with its skeletal remains. These leaf fossils inspired its discoverer to name it Silvisaurus (woodland lizard) condrayi (after the farmer who found its bones on his farm).

Silvisaurus stood about 3 feet tall and 12 feet long, a plant eater with protective armor-like bony plates embedded in its skin, parallel spikes running down its neck, and large spikes over its shoulders. This profusion of protective gear indicates it had predators, though no large land predators have been found in Kansas.

more on the state dinosaur story: X

#Silvisaurus condrayi #dinosaurs #paleontology #paleoart #kansas

[lunar-goodness]

Went to the KU natural history museum with my brother and saw Kansas’s official state land fossil!

Silvisaurus is a species of ankylosaur, an armored dinosaur, which lived during the Cretaceous period 145.5-65.5 million years ago. At the time, Kansas was partially covered by the Western Interior Seaway; however, Silvisaurus lived in a forested area, indicated by an abundance of fossil leaves that were discovered with its skeletal remains. These leaf fossils inspired Eaton to name the dinosaur Silvisaurus, which means “woodland lizard.” To date, it is the only land-dwelling dinosaur known to have lived in the area. Silvisaurus stood 3 feet tall and was about 12 feet long. Its protective armor-like plates and spikes indicate that it may have had predators, though none have been found in Kansas so far. While other dinosaurs have been found in the state, they are from deposits that were under the sea during the Cretaceous period. Because they were discovered in areas that were far from land at that time, they presumably washed into the area from other regions.

Brother for scale!

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[iowasi]

My Secret Sinosauropteryx for @thewoodparable ! Featuring a Silvisaurus with mistletoe, since Jack has no preference for dinosaurs. I picked this one since I don’t usually draw nodosaurs and “silvi-“ means wood/woodland/forest, which links back to his username. c: Colors based off of the official drawing for this dinosaur on @a-dinosaur-a-day !

#Silvisaurus #nodosaur #my art #dinosaur #Secret Sinosauropteryx

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Silvisaurus condrayi

By José Carlos Cortés on @ryuukibart

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Name: Silvisaurus condrayi

Name Meaning: Woodland Reptile

First Described: 1960

Described By: Eston

Classification: Dinosauria, Ornithischia, Genasauria, Thyreophora, Eurypoda, Ankylosauria, Nodosauridae

Silvisaurus is a Nodosaurid known from the Dakota Formation in Kansas, living from the Cenomanian age of the Late Cretaceous, approximately 96 to 93.5 million years ago. It is known from an incomplete skeleton, including part of the skull, but the fossil itself was fairly poor and are from the bottom of a river, where they had been trampled by cattle. It was probably about 4 meters long, and it was probably a fairly early derived Nodosaurid due to the teeth in the front of it’s jaw. It had large air passages in the skull for loud vocalizations. 

Source:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silvisaurus

Shout out goes to @aceofaxes!

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[nomoreuniverse]

Silvisaurus Violeta

#silvisaurus violeta

[aristoteliancomplacency]

TINY DINOSAURS.

[img ID: Pixel art of 15 tiny, colourful dinosaurs and 1 chicken. They are arranged in a four by four grid of boxes. There is a purple triceratops, a green Plesiosaurus, a lilac raptor wearing a crown, a red stegosaurus with blue plates, a brown silvisaurus, a pink tsintaosaurus, a teal paychcephalosaurus, a green baryonyx, a dark red basilosaurus, an emerald green pterodactyl, a light brown compsognathus, a lilac dimorphodon, a pale red dimetrodon with a blue spine sail, a yellow brachiosaurus, a blue t-rex, and a brown chicken. / End ID.]

#dinosaur #sometimes I make things: pixel art edition

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I was looking up types of plants (don’t know much about botanical classifications), and this came up.

Ah yes, Silvisaurus is the only known life-form to ever eat plants.

[Image Description: A screenshot of written text. It says:

Scientific name: Plantae

Kingdom: Plantae; sensu Copeland, 1956

Eaten by: Silvisaurus

Higher classification: Archaeplastida

Rank: Kingdom

Domain: Eukaryota.

Most of the text is black, except for “Silvisaurus” and “Archaeplastida” which are blue links.

End ID/]

#weird things I found

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Albertosaurus T-Shirt

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Kansas State Map, History, Population, Facts, Capitol, Flag

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Kansas State Map, History, Population, Facts, Capitol, Flag

Kansas was the 34th state in the USA; it became a state on January 29, 1861.

State Abbreviation – KS State Capital – Topeka Largest City – Wichita Area – 82,282 square miles [Kansas is the 15th biggest state in the USA] Population – 2,893,957 (as of 2013) [Kansas is the 34th most populous state in the USA] Name for Residents – Kansans Major Industries – agriculture (wheat and other grains), aircraft manufacturing, automobile manufacturing

Major Rivers – Kansas River, Republican River, Smoky Hill River, Arkansas River, Missouri River Major Lakes – Tuttle Creek Reservoir, Cheney Reservoir, Waconda Lake Highest Point – Mt. Sunflower – 4,039 feet (1,231 m) above sea level Lowest Point – Verdigris River – 680 feet (270 m) above sea level Number of Counties – 105 Bordering States – Colorado, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma

Origin of the Name Kansas – Kansas was named for Konza (also called Kansa or Kaw) Indians who lived in the area. State Nickname – Sunflower State State Motto – “Ad astra per aspera” – To the stars through difficulties State Song – Home on the Range

Dinosaur Fossils Found in Kansas – Claosaurus, Hierosaurus, Nodosaurus, Silvisaurus  Kansas State Symbols and Emblems:

State FlagKansas’ official flag was adopted in 1927. The flag has a blue field, the word “KANSAS,” the sunflower (Kansas’ state flower), and the state seal of Kansas. The seal pictures rich Kansas farmland, a farmer plowing, covered wagons, Native Americans hunting bison, a rising sun, a steamboat (representing commerce) on the water (beneath the sun and the mountains), 34 stars (since Kansas was the 34th state in the USA), and the state motto, “AD ASTRA PER ASPERA,” meaning “To the stars through difficulty,” in Latin.

Animal Symbols:

State Bird Western Meadowlark (Sturnella neglecta) State Animal Buffalo (Bison bison) State ReptileOrnate Box Turtle (Terrapene ornata) State AmphibianBarred tiger salamander (Ambystoma tigrinum mavortium) State Insect Honeybee

Plant Symbols:

State FlowerSunflower (Helianthus annuus) State TreeCottonwood (Populus deltoides)

Earth Symbol:

State SoilHarney series

#States and Capitals

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Silvisaurus Violeta

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