Kangnasaurus
Kangnasaurus was a plant-eating dinosaur that lived in what is now South Africa. It walked on two legs and had a beak for nibbling plants. This dinosaur is known from just a few fossil bones, so scientists are still learning about it.13
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Kangnasaurus was named in 1915 by scientist Sidney H. Haughton.1
The only known tooth of Kangnasaurus was found 34 metres deep in a well on a farm.1
Scientists once thought Kangnasaurus lived in the Early Cretaceous, but now they think it lived in the Late Cretaceous, between about 80 and 66 million years ago.1
Kangnasaurus belongs to a group of ornithopods called Elasmarians, which were mostly small, fast plant-eaters.13
Besides a tooth, a few thigh bones and other leg bones have been found that might belong to Kangnasaurus.1
The species name coetzeei honors the farmer Coetzee, on whose land the fossil was discovered.1

Mees gevraagde vrae oor Kangnasaurus
?How big was Kangnasaurus?
Nobody knows for sure because only a tooth and a few leg bones have been found. It was probably a small, bipedal plant-eater, like other elasmarians.13
?What did Kangnasaurus eat?
It ate plants. It had a beak for nibbling plants and was a herbivore that walked on two legs.13
?When did Kangnasaurus live?
It lived in the Late Cretaceous, between about 80 and 66 million years ago. That is the Campanian to Maastrichtian ages.1
Vir dino-kenners
- Wetenskaplike naam
- Kangnasaurus
- Benoem deur
- Haughton 19153
- Groep
- Plantvreters met snawels
- Familie / klade
- Elasmaria3
- Klassifikasie
- Ornithischia > Ornithopoda > Iguanodontia3
- Ouderdom van die rotse
- 100 tot 66 miljoen jaar (Cenomanian / Maastrichtian)3
- Lande
- Suid-Afrika3
- Fossielrekords
- 1 in The Paleobiology Database3
- Ontdekking
- Kangnasaurus was named by Sidney H. Haughton in 1915 based on a single tooth found in a well on Farm Kangnas in South Africa.1
- Steeds omstrede
- Scientists are not sure if all the bones found near the tooth really belong to Kangnasaurus, because they came from different places.1
Waar die feite vandaan kom
- Kangnasaurus (en.wikipedia.org)
- Kangnasaurus coetzeei | Dinosaur Database by DinoAnimals.com (dinoanimals.com)
- Kangnasaurus in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): ouderdom, plekke, rotsformasies, klassifikasie.
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