Musankwa
Musankwa was a long-necked plant-eater that lived in what is now Zimbabwe during the Late Triassic. It walked on two legs and weighed about as much as a large bear. Only one leg bone fossil has been found, but it tells scientists a lot about this dinosaur.41
Калі ён жыў?
Які ён быў вялікі?
Якога ён быў росту?
Колькі ён важыў?
Наколькі вялікім быў Musankwa у параўнанні з ТАБОЙ?
Толькі матэматыка ў тваім браўзеры. Нічога не захоўваецца і нікуды не адпраўляецца.
Наколькі ён быў хуткі?
Цікавыя факты
Musankwa was named in 2024, making it one of the newest dinosaur discoveries from Africa.1
The fossil was found by a team living on a houseboat called Musankwa, which means 'boy close to marriage' in the Tonga language.1
Musankwa is only the fourth dinosaur ever named from Zimbabwe, after Vulcanodon and Mbiresaurus.1
The Musankwa specimen includes a right leg bone, the femur, tibia, and ankle bone, all still connected.1
Scientists think Musankwa was about 386 kilograms, or 851 pounds, which is as heavy as a large moose.1
Musankwa lived during the Norian stage of the Late Triassic, about 227 to 205 million years ago.4
The Pebbly Arkose Formation where Musankwa was found is made of ancient river sand and pebbles.1

Пра што найчасцей пытаюцца: Musankwa
?How big was Musankwa?
Musankwa weighed about 386 kilograms (851 pounds), which is as heavy as a large moose or a horse. It stood about 1.5 metres (5 feet) tall at the hip.12
?What did Musankwa eat?
Musankwa was a plant-eater. It was a sauropodomorph, a group of long-necked dinosaurs that ate plants.3
Разбуральнік міфаў
Міф: Some people think only giant long-necked dinosaurs like Brachiosaurus lived in Africa.
Праўда: Musankwa was a smaller relative of those giants, showing that early sauropodomorphs came in many sizes and lived across the supercontinent Pangaea.1
Для знаўцаў дыназаўраў
- Навуковая назва
- Musankwa
- Назву даў
- Barrett et al. 20244
- Група
- Даўгашыі
- Сямейства / клада
- Massopoda4
- Класіфікацыя
- Sauropodomorpha4
- Узрост парод
- ад 237 да 206 мільёнаў гадоў (Carnian / Norian)4
- Горныя пароды
- Pebbly Arkose4
- Краіны
- Зімбабвэ4
- Знаходкі выкапняў
- 1 у базе The Paleobiology Database4
- Адкрыццё
- Musankwa was discovered in March 2018 by paleontologist Paul Barrett on Spurwing Island, Lake Kariba, Zimbabwe. It was officially named in 2024 by Barrett and his team.1
- Навукоўцы яшчэ спрачаюцца
- Scientists are still debating whether Musankwa was a member of the Massopoda group or more closely related to the Unaysauridae dinosaurs.1
Адкуль бяруцца факты
- Musankwa (en.wikipedia.org)
- New dinosaur species from Zimbabwe found and described by Museum expert | Natural History Museum (nhm.ac.uk)
- 2024-05 - Musankwa sanyatiensis, a new dinosaur from Zimbabwe - Wits University (wits.ac.za)
- Musankwa in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): узрост, месцы, горныя пароды, класіфікацыя.
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