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Weewarrasaurus is known from a jawbone preserved in precious opal, giving it a colorful, gem-like appearance.1
It lived about 100 to 94 million years ago during the Cretaceous Period.4
The name Weewarrasaurus comes from the Wee Warra locality where its fossil was found.1
This dinosaur was a small ornithopod, about the size of a large dog.1
Weewarrasaurus shared its home with other ornithopods of different sizes, including a larger iguanodontian.1
Mees gevraagde vrae oor Weewarrasaurus
?How big was Weewarrasaurus?
About the size of a Labrador retriever, or a large dog. It walked on its hind legs.3
?What did Weewarrasaurus eat?
It was a plant-eater. It had a beak and teeth for nibbling vegetation like ferns.3
?Why is Weewarrasaurus preserved in opal?
The fossil was preserved in opal because silica-rich solutions underground turned into the gemstone over millions of years. This happened in the Lightning Ridge area of Australia.3
Vir dino-kenners
- Wetenskaplike naam
- Weewarrasaurus
- Benoem deur
- Bell et al. 20184
- Groep
- Plantvreters met snawels
- Familie / klade
- Elasmaria4
- Klassifikasie
- Ornithischia > Ornithopoda > Iguanodontia4
- Ouderdom van die rotse
- 100 tot 94 miljoen jaar (Cenomanian)4
- Rotsformasies
- Griman Creek4
- Lande
- Australië4
- Fossielrekords
- 2 in The Paleobiology Database4
- Ontdekking
- Weewarrasaurus was named in 2018 by Phil Bell and colleagues based on a jawbone found by opal miner Mike Poben near Lightning Ridge, Australia.12
- Steeds omstrede
- Scientists are not sure exactly how big Weewarrasaurus grew, because only jawbones have been found so far.1
Waar die feite vandaan kom
- Ornithopod diversity in the Griman Creek Formation (Cenomanian), New South Wales, Australia (pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
- Weewarrasaurus (en.wikipedia.org)
- Exclusive: Sparkly, opal-filled fossils reveal new dinosaur species | National Geographic (nationalgeographic.com)
- Weewarrasaurus in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): ouderdom, plekke, rotsformasies, klassifikasie.
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