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Yuanmousaurus

Naam beteken: “Yuanmou lizard”1
Het geëet: PlanteLangnekkeMiddel-Jura

Yuanmousaurus was a giant, long-necked plant-eater that lived in China during the Middle Jurassic. It may have been as long as a school bus and used its long neck to reach leaves high in the trees.1

Het geleef
175 tot 162 miljoen jaar gelede2
Middel-Jura
Fossiele gevind in
Yuanmou County, Yunnan Province, China1
Lengte
tot 17 m (56 ft)1
Hoogte
3,9 m (13 ft)
skatting
Topspoed
omtrent 14 km/h (9 mph)
Hardloop, skatting

Wanneer het dit geleef?

Trias
Jura
Kryt
252 miljoen jaar gelede20114566, die asteroïde

Hoe groot was dit?

Hoe lank was dit?

Yuanmousaurus omtrent 17 m lank (56 ft)'n Grootmensfiets omtrent 1,8 m (5,9 ft)'n Motor omtrent 4,5 m (15 ft)'n Olifant, die grootste landdier vandag omtrent 6,5 m (21 ft)

Hoe hoog was dit?

'n Perdomtrent 1,6 m (5,2 ft)'n Olifantomtrent 3,2 m (10 ft)Yuanmousaurusomtrent 3,9 m hoog (13 ft)'n Kameelperdomtrent 5,5 m (18 ft)

skatting

so lank soos 4 motors in 'n ry geparkeerso lank soos 94 piesangs punt aan puntkon 100 meter in 26 sekondes hardloop (die vinnigste mens het 9,6 nodig)

Hoe groot was Yuanmousaurus 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

Yuanmousaurus is known from only one incomplete skeleton, found in 2000 near the village of Jiangyi.1

2

Its neck bones were long and stretched out, similar to those of its relative Mamenchisaurus, which had one of the longest necks of any dinosaur.1

3

The forelimbs of Yuanmousaurus were longer than those of the sauropod Shunosaurus, but shorter than those of Omeisaurus.1

4

Scientists are not sure exactly where Yuanmousaurus belongs on the dinosaur family tree, and some think it may be a close relative of Patagosaurus from South America.1

5

The only known fossils include parts of the back, tail, hips, arms, legs, and a single claw from the hind foot.1

6

Yuanmousaurus lived about 174 to 161 million years ago, during the Middle Jurassic period.2

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Vir dino-kenners

Wetenskaplike naam
Yuanmousaurus
Benoem deur
Lü et al. 20062
Groep
Langnekke
Familie / klade
Mamenchisauridae2
Klassifikasie
Sauropodomorpha > Sauropoda2
Ouderdom van die rotse
175 tot 162 miljoen jaar (Aalenian / Callovian)2
Rotsformasies
Zhanghe2
Lande
China2
Fossielrekords
1 in The Paleobiology Database2
Ontdekking
Yuanmousaurus was named in 2006 by Lü Junchang and colleagues, based on a skeleton found in May 2000 in Yuanmou County, Yunnan, China. The fossils are kept at the Yuanmou Museum.1
Steeds omstrede
Scientists debate whether Yuanmousaurus is a valid genus or if its fossils belong to another known sauropod.1

Waar die feite vandaan kom

  1. Yuanmousaurus (en.wikipedia.org)
  2. Yuanmousaurus in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): ouderdom, plekke, rotsformasies, klassifikasie.

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