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Shanag

Naam beteken: “black-hatted dancer, after the Buddhist Tsam festival dancers”1
Het geëet: VleisRaptorsVroeë Kryt

Shanag was a small, feathered raptor that lived in what is now Mongolia during the Early Cretaceous. It was a fast, meat-eating dinosaur with sharp teeth and claws.42

Het geleef
143 tot 100 miljoen jaar gelede4
Vroeë Kryt
Fossiele gevind in
Öösh locality, Baykhangor, Mongolia42
Lengte
1,5 m (4,9 ft)3
Gewig
5 kg (11 lb)3
Hoogte
0,54 m (1,8 ft)
skatting
Topspoed
omtrent 31 km/h (19 mph)
Hardloop, skatting

Wanneer het dit geleef?

Trias
Jura
Kryt
252 miljoen jaar gelede20114566, die asteroïde

Hoe groot was dit?

Hoe lank was dit?

Shanag omtrent 1,5 m lank (4,9 ft)'n Huiskat omtrent 0,5 m (1,6 ft)'n Hond omtrent 1 m (3,3 ft)'n Grootmensfiets omtrent 1,8 m (5,9 ft)

Hoe hoog was dit?

'n Huiskatomtrent 0,3 m (1 ft)'n Hondomtrent 0,5 m (1,6 ft)Shanagomtrent 0,54 m hoog (1,8 ft)'n Perdomtrent 1,6 m (5,2 ft)

skatting

Hoe swaar was dit?

so swaar soos 1 huiskatte
so lank soos 3 huiskatte van neus tot stertso lank soos 8 piesangs punt aan puntomtrent so swaar soos 'n huiskatso swaar soos 42 piesangskon 100 meter in 12 sekondes hardloop (die vinnigste mens het 9,6 nodig)

Hoe groot was Shanag vergeleke met JOU?

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

Hoe vinnig was dit?

cool goed

Prettige feite

1

Shanag is known from only a partial skull: a right maxilla (upper jaw bone), dentary (lower jaw bone), and part of the splenial (a jaw bone).2

2

It was a dromaeosaurid, meaning it was a close relative of famous raptors like Velociraptor and Deinonychus.2

3

Shanag had special air pockets inside its jawbone between the tooth sockets, called interalveolar pneumatic cavities.2

4

Unlike many other theropods, Shanag lacked a promaxillary fenestra, a small opening in the front of the snout.2

5

Shanag lived alongside Psittacosaurus, a small horned dinosaur, and large sauropods in the Öösh region.1

6

The fossils of Shanag were found in rocks that are about 130 million years old, from the Early Cretaceous period.1

Deur KI gemaakKI-prent van Shanag
'n KI-prent van hoe Shanag 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 Shanag

?How big was Shanag?

Shanag was a small predator, about 1.5 metres (4.9 feet) long and weighing around 5 kilograms (11 pounds).3

?Did Shanag have feathers?

Yes, as a theropod, Shanag had hollow bones and feathers. Its feathers helped with climbing, thermoregulation, and stabilizing while on prey.3

?What did Shanag eat?

Shanag was a meat-eating dinosaur with sharp teeth and claws. It likely used its claws to grip and pin down prey, similar to modern birds of prey.3

?Is Shanag a dromaeosaurid?

It may be a dromaeosaurid, but some researchers are skeptical. It shows a mix of dromaeosaurid, troodontid, and basal avialan traits, so its exact classification is debated.3

Vir dino-kenners

Wetenskaplike naam
Shanag
Benoem deur
Turner et al. 20074
Groep
Raptors
Familie / klade
Dromaeosauridae4
Klassifikasie
Theropoda > Dromaeosauridae4
Ouderdom van die rotse
143 tot 100 miljoen jaar (Berriasian / Albian)4
Rotsformasies
Öösh4
Lande
Mongolië4
Fossielrekords
1 in The Paleobiology Database4
Ontdekking
Shanag was named in 2007 by Alan H. Turner, Sunny H. Hwang, and Mark A. Norell. The only known fossil was found by a Mongolian Academy of Sciences,American Museum of Natural History expedition in 1999 at the Öösh locality in Mongolia.21
Steeds omstrede
Scientists are unsure about the exact size of Shanag because only a partial skull has been found.2

Waar die feite vandaan kom

  1. digitallibrary.amnh.org (digitallibrary.amnh.org)
  2. A small derived theropod from Öösh, early Cretaceous, Baykhangor Mongolia ; American Museum novitates, no. 3557 (digitallibrary.amnh.org)
  3. Shanag (en.wikipedia.org)
  4. Shanag in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): ouderdom, plekke, rotsformasies, klassifikasie.

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