Ohmdenosaurus is a genus of sauropod dinosaur that lived during the Early Jurassic epoch in what is now Germany. The only known specimen (pictured) – a tibia (shinbone) and ankle – was discovered in rocks of the Posidonia Shale near the village of Ohmden. The specimen is exhibited in a local museum, where, in the 1970s, the German palaeontologist Rupert Wild recognised it as the remains of a sauropod. One of the earliest known sauropods, Ohmdenosaurus was quadrupedal (four-legged) and already had the columnar limbs typical for the group. It was small for a sauropod, with an estimated length of 3 to 4 m (10 to 13 ft). Its relationships to other sauropods remain uncertain due to the incompleteness of its remains. The Posidonia Shale was deposited within a shallow inland sea. Ohmdenosaurus was a terrestrial animal, so the specimen must have been transported by predators or water currents at least 100 km (62 mi) from the shoreline to its site of burial. It is the only dinosaur fossil known from the shale.

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1897:

French actress, journalist and leading suffragette Marguerite Durand founded the feminist newspaper La Fronde. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Fronde_%28newspaper%29

1948:

The United Nations General Assembly adopted the Genocide Convention, which defines genocide in legal terms and advises its signatories to prevent and punish such actions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocide_Convention

1968:

Douglas Engelbart gave what became known as "The Mother of All Demos", publicly debuting the computer mouse, hypertext, and the bit- mapped graphical user interface using the oN-Line System (NLS). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mother_of_All_Demos

2008:

Governor of Illinois Rod Blagojevich was arrested for a number of corruption crimes, including attempting to sell the U.S. Senate seat that was being vacated by then-President-elect Barack Obama. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod_Blagojevich_corruption_charges

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tanzanite: A trichroic violet-blue variety of the mineral zoisite mined in Tanzania, used as a gemstone. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tanzanite

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With thee conversing I forget all time, All seasons, and their change; all please alike. Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds; pleasant the sun When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glist'ring with dew; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers; and sweet the coming on Of grateful ev'ning mild; then silent night With this her solemn bird and this fair moon, And these the gems of heaven, her starry train.   --Paradise Lost https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Paradise_Lost