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[[File:Big_Al_Allosaurus.jpg|thumb|Big Yon (UJMN 872) on display at the [[Vollardie Paleontological Museum]]]] | [[File:Big_Al_Allosaurus.jpg|thumb|Big Yon (UJMN 872) on display at the [[Vollardie Paleontological Museum]]]] | ||
Big Yon is a 95% complete ''[[Joanusaurus]]'' with several interesting pathologies presesnt in the skeleton. Paleontologists were able to piece together a hypothetical life story for Big Yon based on these pathologies that was turned into a 45 minute long television documentary by [[Primo Kino]] as the ''Life and Death of Big Yon''. | Big Yon is a 95% complete ''[[Joanusaurus]]'' with several interesting pathologies presesnt in the skeleton. Paleontologists were able to piece together a hypothetical life story for Big Yon based on these pathologies that was turned into a 45 minute long television documentary by [[Primo Kino]] in 2000 as the ''Life and Death of Big Yon''. | ||
Big Yon was discovered on accident in 1980 by miners in Marsbury in the northern Ionian Mountains, [[Urcea]]. A joint team of Yonderian and Urcean paleontologists painstakingly uncovered the specimen, named UJMN 872 and quickly nicknamed Big Yon. The specimen measured about 9 meters (about 29 ft) in length and showed remarkable signs of healed or partially healed {{wpl|Paleopathology|injuries}}. Nineteen of its bones were broken or showed signs of infection, which may have contributed to Big Yon's death. Pathologic bones included five ribs, five vertebrae, and four bones of the feet; several damaged bones showed osteomyelitis, a bone infection. A particular problem for the living animal was infection and trauma to the right foot that probably affected movement and may have also predisposed the other foot to injury because of a change in gait. Big Yon had an infection on the first phalanx on the third toe that was afflicted by an involucrum.<ref>Horner et al.: ''The Curious Case of Big Yon the Joanusaurus'', [[University of Collinebourg]]. 1989.</ref> | Big Yon was discovered on accident in 1980 by miners in Marsbury in the northern Ionian Mountains, [[Urcea]]. A joint team of Yonderian and Urcean paleontologists painstakingly uncovered the specimen, named UJMN 872 and quickly nicknamed Big Yon. The specimen measured about 9 meters (about 29 ft) in length and showed remarkable signs of healed or partially healed {{wpl|Paleopathology|injuries}}. Nineteen of its bones were broken or showed signs of infection, which may have contributed to Big Yon's death. Pathologic bones included five ribs, five vertebrae, and four bones of the feet; several damaged bones showed osteomyelitis, a bone infection. A particular problem for the living animal was infection and trauma to the right foot that probably affected movement and may have also predisposed the other foot to injury because of a change in gait. Big Yon had an infection on the first phalanx on the third toe that was afflicted by an involucrum.<ref>Horner et al.: ''The Curious Case of Big Yon the Joanusaurus'', [[University of Collinebourg]]. 1989.</ref> | ||