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Saturnalia

Naam beteken: “named after the Roman festival of Saturnalia, because the fossils were found during Carnival”1

Het geëet: 'n Bietjie van allesLangnekkeLaat Trias

Saturnalia was one of the very first dinosaurs to ever walk the Earth. It was a small, speedy plant-eater that lived in what is now Brazil about 233 million years ago. Scientists have found several skeletons, making it one of the best-known early dinosaurs.1

Het geleef

237 tot 227 miljoen jaar gelede2

Laat Trias

Fossiele gevind in

Rio Grande do Sul, southern Brazil1

Lengte

1,5 m (4,9 ft)1

Gewig

4 kg tot 11 kg (9 tot 24 lb)1

Hoogte

0,5 m (1,6 ft)

skatting

Topspoed

omtrent 27 km/h (17 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 3 huiskatte

so lank soos 3 huiskatte van neus tot stertso lank soos 8 piesangs punt aan puntso swaar soos 92 piesangskon 100 meter in 13 sekondes hardloop (die vinnigste mens het 9,6 nodig)

Hoe groot was Saturnalia 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)

Saturnalia omtrent 27 km/h (17 mph)

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

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

cool goed

Prettige feite

Saturnalia was only about 1.5 metres (4.9 feet) long, about the size of a large dog.1

Its skull was only about 10 centimetres (3.9 inches) long, giving it a tiny head compared to its body.1

Saturnalia had a long neck made of nine or ten vertebrae, which was about half the length of its trunk.1

It lived at the same time as the meat-eating dinosaur Staurikosaurus, which may have hunted it.1

Saturnalia is one of the oldest dinosaurs ever found, dating back to about 233 million years ago.1

The fossils were collected during the Brazilian Carnival, which is why scientists named it after the Roman festival Saturnalia.1

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

Mite-breker

Mite: Saturnalia was a plant-eater like later sauropodomorphs.

Waarheid: Scientists now think Saturnalia was probably an omnivore or carnivore, eating insects and small animals, based on its teeth and skull shape.1

Vir dino-kenners

Wetenskaplike naam: Saturnalia
Benoem deur: Langer et al. 19992
Groep: Langnekke
Familie / klade: Saturnaliidae2
Klassifikasie: Sauropodomorpha2
Ouderdom van die rotse: 237 tot 227 miljoen jaar (Carnian)2
Rotsformasies: Santa Maria, Pebbly Arkose2
Lande: Brasilië, Zimbabwe2
Fossielrekords: 3 in The Paleobiology Database2
Ontdekking: Saturnalia was named in 1999 by Max Cardoso Langer and his team, based on three skeletons found in the Santa Maria Formation of Brazil during the 1998 Carnival.1
Steeds omstrede: Scientists still debate whether Saturnalia was a true sauropodomorph or more closely related to theropods, because it has a mix of features from both groups.1

Waar die feite vandaan kom

Saturnalia tupiniquim (en.wikipedia.org)
Saturnalia in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): ouderdom, plekke, rotsformasies, klassifikasie.

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