Asfaltovenator: One of the Best Theropods from the Middle Jurassic 

This is absolutely the best channel for short-to-mid-length videos on paleo stuff

Middle Jurassic are the most underrated period for Dinosaurs and it's also the coldest of all periods in the Mesozoic, though still warmer than today's climate. The Mesozoic Ice Age I would say.

"Asphalt Hunter of Vialidad" sounds like an 80's high speed chase action flick.

Argentine palaeontology for the win! Great video as always, I didn't know about this dinosaur. Keep up the great job! You have a great way of making complex topics very easy to understand, and in such short videos! And I say that as a biologist who's had some palaeontology studies as part of my education;systematics are no easy thing to explain. Your videos are like my quick shot of paleo updates, so thank you.

im from brazil, i will love if you make a video about spectrovenator or ubirajara

Awesome videos! You explain it all so well

Thanks! I always like to learn more about the mysterious middle and early Jurassic. :)

Definitely a theropod that deserves more respect than it gets for it's important in diversification understanding and it's place in the overall theropod genus spectrum

Great video as always!

I have crossed the Andes from Argentina to Chile and one of my strongest memories are of agricultural terracing's from the base of mountains' right up almost vertical faces'. in some palaces I would say 300m+ from the lowest sections to the top terrace. I have long wandered if they could be treated as test sections through millions of years of geologic history? Indeed given the rapid growth rate of the Andes ,might the exposed lares be young enough to excite any Palaeontologist ? Again thanks for the fascinating content .🖖

Wow! Amazing stuff. So much skeleton. Excellent stuff. Thanks Raptor Chatter

Finding the origin of the crown group maniraptora would probably be the most fantastic result of this research. As far as I understand, it’s early Jurassic theropoda… then late Jurassic stem-birds. Where are the small dinosaurs in the gap?! I would love to know!

Excellent vid about a sensibly sized animal.

I keep reading this dinosaur as asphalt oven ator

Basalt soil is quite mineral rich and fertile, so in the areas where the lava flows have previously erupted you'd have pockets and swarthes of more nutritious vegitation, basalt boulder fields or areas of decaying basalt rubble may also protect sensitive species from fire, if the area was prone to fires. Based on modern observation the areas where the basalt is present would probably make preferred browsing/grazing for the formation's herbivores. Just thought I'd add some to building a picture of the Asfaltso formation.

‘One of the best’ 😂

I know nothing about paleobiology (is that a thing? It has to be a thing), but one thing I was taught in ppl anatomy was noses help with thermal regulation. I'm not sure if that means endo- or ectotherm, but I hope we find out more any way. Also ty for linking the papers

Asfaltovenator layers have been recently fully constraint to 179.17 ± 0.12 Ma-178.07 ± 0.21 (Middle Toarcian, Variabilis Biozone), and likely only comprises the Chacritas Member, while the True Late Jurassic section, the Puesto Almada member is either part of the younger Cañadón Calcáreo Formation or belongs to a new unit, the Sierra de la Manea Formation. Diego Pol fully corroborated it with this quote: "The age of the Cañadón Asfalto Formation was traditionally thought to be Callovian-Oxfordian, but recent radiometric dates bracketed the fossiliferous levels of this unit as Early Jurassic (Toarcian; Cúneo et al. 2013). The base of the Cañadón Asfalto Formation was dated at 179.17 ± 0.12 Ma, and the uppermost levels of this unit were dated at 178.07 ± 0.21 Ma (Pol et al. 2020). The locality where Volkheimeria and Patagosaurus were found is stratigraphically bracketed between the horizons of these two dates" -Fantasia, A.; Föllmi, K. B.; Adatte, T.; Spangenberg, J. E.; Schoene, B.; Barker, R. T.; Scasso, R. A. (2021). "Late Toarcian continental palaeoenvironmental conditions: An example from the Canadon Asfalto Formation in southern Argentina". Gondwana Research. 89 (1): 47-65. -Figari, E.G. (2011). The Sierra de la Manea Formation (Titho- Neocomian) Composite- Stratotype, Cañadon Asfalto Basin, Patagonia, Argentina. XVIII Congreso Geológico Argentino. 18 (2): 1012-1013. Retrieved 9 August 2022. -Pol, D.; Gomez, K.; Holwerda, F.H.; Rauhut, O.W.M.; Carballido, J.L. (2022). "Sauropods from the Early Jurassic of South America and the Radiation of Eusauropoda". In Otero, A.; Carballido, J.L.; Pol, D. (eds.). South American Sauropodomorph Dinosaurs. Record, Diversity and Evolution. Springer. pp. 131-163. *Remember the EJ doesn't end until 174.2 million years*

nice

Magalomartosaurus. It has every kind of feature . . . except for the one you're looking for. That one's on order.

He was the Dino standing around with a Stop sign and a highvis vest

Astolfovenator

Good job there, and keep on the tail of whats going on there.

Yet ANOTHER cool dinosaur found in my land you say???

Asfalt Oven Ator? Seriously? You made that shit up.

I never see any mention of possible hybridization between different species of theropods. Would this just complicate things too much? Or is it just not something we think could happen?

Asfaltovenator is older than grass!

Asfalto, sério? Kd os BR kkkk

Could any dinosaurs turn their heads like modern day owls can?

Bruh why this guy hunting roads

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You guys are running outta dino names,aren't ya? LOL

Idk... This specimen kind of feels like it has a high probability of being a chimera. One specimen with features from many different known species? Seems pretty sus to me. Idk, I'm far from an expert and I haven't even read the paper describing it, but I'm getting some serious chimera vibes here.