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Minqaria

Naam beteken: “beak duck”1

Minqaria was a tiny duck-billed dinosaur that lived in Africa near the end of the age of dinosaurs. It was only about as long as a car and weighed as much as a big pig. Despite its small size, it was a full-grown adult!2 1

Het geleef

72 tot 66 miljoen jaar gelede4

Laat Kryt

Fossiele gevind in

Oulad Abdoun Basin, Morocco2 1

Lengte

3,5 m (11 ft)2 1

Gewig

250 kg (551 lb)1

Hoogte

1,5 m (4,9 ft)

skatting

Topspoed

omtrent 43 km/h (27 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 12 honde

so lank soos 4 honde van neus tot stertso lank soos 19 piesangs punt aan puntso swaar soos 50 waatlemoeneso swaar soos 13 kleuterskoolkindersso swaar soos 8 skoolkinderskon 100 meter in 8,4 sekondes hardloop (die vinnigste mens het 9,6 nodig)

Hoe groot was Minqaria 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)

Minqaria omtrent 43 km/h (27 mph)

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

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

cool goed

Prettige feite

Minqaria was a dwarf dinosaur, only about 3.5 metres (11 feet) long, much smaller than its giant relatives like Edmontosaurus.2 1

Its skull bones were fused together, which tells scientists it was a fully grown adult, not a baby.2 1

Minqaria lived alongside other dinosaurs in Morocco, including the duck-billed Ajnabia and the meat-eating Chenanisaurus.2

The name Minqaria comes from the Arabic word for 'beak', and bata means 'duck', so its full name is 'beak duck'.1

Minqaria belonged to a group of duck-billed dinosaurs called lambeosaurines, which often had fancy crests on their heads.2 1

Fossils of Minqaria were found in marine rocks, meaning its body washed out to sea after death.2

KI-prent van Minqaria — 'n KI-prent van hoe Minqaria 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 Minqaria

?How big was Minqaria?

Minqaria was about 3.5 metres long and weighed about 250 kilograms, similar in size to a large motorcycle.1 2

?Was Minqaria a baby or an adult?

It was a fully grown adult. Its skull bones were fused together, which shows it was mature even though it was small.1 2

?What did Minqaria eat?

Minqaria was a duck-billed dinosaur, so it ate plants. It had teeth in its jaws for chewing plant material.1

?When did Minqaria live?

Minqaria lived in the very latest Cretaceous period, about 1 million years before the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs.1

Vir dino-kenners

Wetenskaplike naam: Minqaria
Benoem deur: Longrich et al. 20244
Groep: Eendbekke
Familie / klade: Hadrosauridae4
Klassifikasie: Ornithischia > Ornithopoda > Iguanodontia > Hadrosauridae4
Ouderdom van die rotse: 72 tot 66 miljoen jaar (Maastrichtian)4
Rotsformasies: Couche III4
Lande: Marokko4
Fossielrekords: 1 in The Paleobiology Database4
Ontdekking: Minqaria was named in 2024 by paleontologist Nick Longrich and his team. The fossils were found by local miners in the phosphate mines of Sidi Chennane, Morocco.2 1
Steeds omstrede: Scientists are not sure why Minqaria and other African duck-billed dinosaurs were so small, but they think it might be because giant sauropods outcompeted them for food.2

Waar die feite vandaan kom

Minqaria (en.wikipedia.org)
A new small duckbilled dinosaur (Hadrosauridae: Lambeosaurinae) from Morocco and dinosaur diversity in the late Maastrichtian of North Africa (pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
PBDB Taxon (paleobiodb.org)
Minqaria in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): ouderdom, plekke, rotsformasies, klassifikasie.

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