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Gamatavus

Naam beteken: “Gama great-grandfather”1
Het geëet: PlantePlantvreters met snawelsMiddel-Trias

Gamatavus was a small, beaked dinosaur that lived about 240 million years ago in what is now Brazil. It walked on four legs and used its beak to munch on plants. It is one of the oldest plant-eating dinosaurs ever found in South America.14

Het geleef
241 tot 237 miljoen jaar gelede4
Middel-Trias
Fossiele gevind in
Picada do Gama site, Santa Maria Formation, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil14
Lengte
1 tot 2 m (3,3 tot 6,6 ft)1
Gewig
3 kg (7 lb)3
Hoogte
0,64 m (2,1 ft)
skatting
Topspoed
omtrent 24 km/h (15 mph)
Hardloop, skatting

Wanneer het dit geleef?

Trias
Jura
Kryt
252 miljoen jaar gelede20114566, die asteroïde

Hoe groot was dit?

Hoe lank was dit?

Gamatavus omtrent 2 m lank (6,6 ft)'n Hond omtrent 1 m (3,3 ft)'n Grootmensfiets omtrent 1,8 m (5,9 ft)'n Motor omtrent 4,5 m (15 ft)

Hoe hoog was dit?

'n Huiskatomtrent 0,3 m (1 ft)'n Hondomtrent 0,5 m (1,6 ft)Gamatavusomtrent 0,64 m hoog (2,1 ft)'n Perdomtrent 1,6 m (5,2 ft)

skatting

Hoe swaar was dit?

so swaar soos 25 piesangs
so lank soos 4 huiskatte van neus tot stertso lank soos 11 piesangs punt aan puntomtrent so swaar soos 'n huiskatso swaar soos 25 piesangskon 100 meter in 15 sekondes hardloop (die vinnigste mens het 9,6 nodig)

Hoe groot was Gamatavus vergeleke met JOU?

Net wiskunde in jou blaaier. Niks word gestoor of êrens heen gestuur nie.

Hoe vinnig was dit?

cool goed

Prettige feite

1

Gamatavus is the oldest silesaurid dinosaur ever found in South America, living about 240 million years ago.1

2

Its name means 'Gama great-grandfather' because it was found at the Picada do Gama site and is an ancient relative of later dinosaurs.1

3

Scientists only found a partial hip bone, a leg bone, and a few backbone pieces, so they had to guess its size and shape.12

4

Gamatavus lived alongside large mammal-like reptiles like Dinodontosaurus and Massetognathus.1

5

It belonged to a group called silesaurids, which were early dinosaur relatives that often had beaks and ate plants.1

Deur KI gemaakKI-prent van Gamatavus
'n KI-prent van hoe Gamatavus dalk gelyk het, deur 'n rekenaar gemaak uit wat wetenskaplikes weet. Dit is 'n raaiskoot: die regte dier het dalk anders gelyk, en niemand weet wat sy regte kleure was nie.

Vir dino-kenners

Wetenskaplike naam
Gamatavus
Benoem deur
Pretto et al. 20224
Groep
Plantvreters met snawels
Familie / klade
Silesauridae4
Klassifikasie
Ornithischia4
Ouderdom van die rotse
241 tot 237 miljoen jaar (Ladinian)4
Rotsformasies
Santa Maria4
Lande
Brasilië4
Fossielrekords
1 in The Paleobiology Database4
Ontdekking
Gamatavus was named in 2022 by a team of scientists led by Flávio Augusto Pretto. The fossils were collected from the Picada do Gama site in southern Brazil.14
Steeds omstrede
Scientists are not sure if silesaurids like Gamatavus were true dinosaurs or just very close dinosaur cousins.1

Waar die feite vandaan kom

  1. The oldest South American silesaurid: New remains from the Middle Triassic (Pinheiros-Chiniquá Sequence, Dinodontosaurus Assemblage Zone) increase the time range of silesaurid fossil record in southern Brazil (sciencedirect.com)
  2. Gamatavus (en.wikipedia.org)
  3. Gamatavus antiquus | Dinosaur Database by DinoAnimals.com (dinoanimals.com)
  4. Gamatavus in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): ouderdom, plekke, rotsformasies, klassifikasie.

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