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Karongasaurus

Naam beteken: “Karonga lizard”1

Karongasaurus was a long-necked, plant-eating dinosaur that lived in Africa during the Early Cretaceous. It is known from just a jawbone and some teeth, but scientists think it was a titanosaur, a type of giant sauropod. Imagine a dinosaur with a U-shaped mouth full of slender, cone-shaped teeth!1

Het geleef

121 tot 113 miljoen jaar gelede4

Vroeë Kryt

Fossiele gevind in

Malawi, Africa, in the Dinosaur Beds formation4 1

Lengte

9,4 m (31 ft)3

Gewig

2 ton (4 400 lb)3

Hoogte

2,4 m (7,9 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?

Hoe hoog was dit?

skatting

Hoe swaar was dit?

so swaar soos 1,5 motors

so lank soos 2 motors in 'n ry geparkeerso lank soos 52 piesangs punt aan puntso swaar soos 100 hondeso swaar soos 400 waatlemoeneso swaar soos 2,5 hele skoolklasse vol kindersso swaar soos 4 ysberekon 100 meter in 15 sekondes hardloop (die vinnigste mens het 9,6 nodig)

Hoe groot was Karongasaurus vergeleke met JOU?

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

Hoe vinnig was dit?

'n Mens wat loop omtrent 5 km/h (3 mph)

'n Kind op 'n fiets omtrent 12 km/h (7 mph)

Karongasaurus omtrent 24 km/h (15 mph)

'n Galopperende perd omtrent 65 km/h (40 mph)

'n Jagluiperd omtrent 100 km/h (62 mph)

cool goed

Prettige feite

Karongasaurus was the first dinosaur ever named in a scientific paper that was published only online, not in a printed book or journal.1

Its fossils include only part of a lower jaw and twenty isolated teeth, found between 1987 and 1992.1

The jaw of Karongasaurus is U-shaped when viewed from above, and its teeth are more cylindrical than those of its relative Malawisaurus.1

Scientists think Karongasaurus had a long, low skull, similar to other titanosaurs with slender front teeth.2

Karongasaurus and Malawisaurus were two different titanosaurs that lived together in Early Cretaceous Malawi, but they had different jaw shapes and probably ate different plants.2

The name Karongasaurus means 'Karonga lizard', after the Karonga district in Malawi where its fossils were dug up.1

KI-prent van Karongasaurus — 'n KI-prent van hoe Karongasaurus 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: Karongasaurus
Benoem deur: Gomani 20054
Groep: Langnekke
Familie / klade: Titanosauria4
Klassifikasie: Sauropodomorpha > Sauropoda > Titanosauria > Macronaria4
Ouderdom van die rotse: 121 tot 113 miljoen jaar (Aptian)4
Rotsformasies: Dinosaur Beds4
Lande: Malawi4
Fossielrekords: 2 in The Paleobiology Database4
Ontdekking: Karongasaurus was named by paleontologist Elizabeth Gomani in 2005. The fossils were collected from the Dinosaur Beds of Malawi between 1987 and 1992.1
Steeds omstrede: Scientists are not sure if a certain tail vertebra from Malawi belongs to Karongasaurus or to another unknown titanosaur.2

Waar die feite vandaan kom

Karongasaurus (en.wikipedia.org)
palaeo-electronica.org (palaeo-electronica.org)
Karongasaurus gittelmani | Dinosaur Database by DinoAnimals.com (dinoanimals.com)
Karongasaurus in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): ouderdom, plekke, rotsformasies, klassifikasie.

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