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Meroktenos

Naam beteken: “thigh beast”1

Meroktenos was a long-necked plant-eater that lived in what is now Lesotho during the Late Triassic. It walked on four sturdy legs and had a very thick thighbone for its size.1 4

Het geleef

227 tot 201 miljoen jaar gelede4

Laat Trias

Fossiele gevind in

Thabana Morena, Lesotho1 4

Lengte

4 m (13 ft)1

Gewig

300 kg (661 lb)3

Hoogte

1,2 m (3,9 ft)

skatting

Topspoed

omtrent 37 km/h (23 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 15 honde

so lank soos 4 honde van neus tot stertso lank soos 22 piesangs punt aan puntso swaar soos 60 waatlemoeneso swaar soos 16 kleuterskoolkindersso swaar soos 9 skoolkinderskon 100 meter in 9,7 sekondes hardloop (die vinnigste mens het 9,6 nodig)

Hoe groot was Meroktenos 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)

Meroktenos omtrent 37 km/h (23 mph)

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

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

cool goed

Prettige feite

Meroktenos had a very wide and thick thighbone, a shape that was previously only seen in giant sauropods. Scientists think this helped support its heavy body.1

The name Meroktenos comes from Greek words meaning 'thigh' and 'beast', because its thighbone is so unusual.1

Meroktenos lived about 216 to 201 million years ago, during the Late Triassic period.1 4

The first fossils of Meroktenos were found in 1959 by a team of geologists and paleontologists near the village of Thabana Morena in Lesotho.1

Meroktenos was originally thought to be a species of Melanorosaurus, but in 2016 scientists gave it its own genus.1 2

The thighbone of Meroktenos is about 48 centimeters long, which suggests the whole animal was around 4 meters in length.1

KI-prent van Meroktenos — 'n KI-prent van hoe Meroktenos 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.

julle het gevra

Mees gevraagde vrae oor Meroktenos

?How big was Meroktenos?

About 4 metres (13 feet) long. Its thighbone is about 48 centimetres long.1

?What did Meroktenos eat?

It was a plant-eater. It ate plants like ferns and cycads.1

?When did Meroktenos live?

It lived during the Late Triassic period, about 216 to 201 million years ago.1

Vir dino-kenners

Wetenskaplike naam: Meroktenos
Benoem deur: Peyre de Fabrègues and Allain 20164
Groep: Langnekke
Familie / klade: Sauropodiformes4
Klassifikasie: Sauropodomorpha4
Ouderdom van die rotse: 227 tot 201 miljoen jaar (Norian / Rhaetian)4
Rotsformasies: Elliot4
Lande: Lesotho4
Fossielrekords: 1 in The Paleobiology Database4
Ontdekking: In 1959, François Ellenberger, Paul Ellenberger, Jean Fabre and Leonard Ginsburg discovered the first fossils near Thabana Morena, Lesotho. In 1993, François-Xavier Gauffre named it Melanorosaurus thabanensis, but in 2016 Claire Peyre de Fabrègues and Ronan Allain gave it its own genus, Meroktenos.1 2
Steeds omstrede: Scientists are not sure why Meroktenos had such a wide thighbone. It was not a giant dinosaur, so the thick bone may have had a different purpose.1

Waar die feite vandaan kom

Meroktenos (en.wikipedia.org)
New material and revision of Melanorosaurus thabanensis , a basal sauropodomorph from the Upper Triassic of Lesotho (pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
Meroktenos thabanensis | Dinosaur Database by DinoAnimals.com (dinoanimals.com)
Meroktenos in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): ouderdom, plekke, rotsformasies, klassifikasie.

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