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Mongolostegus

Izenaren esanahia: “Mongolian roof”1
Jaten zuen: LandareakDino plakadunakBehe Kretazeoa

Mongolostegus was a plated dinosaur that lived in what is now Mongolia during the Early Cretaceous, about 121 to 100 million years ago. It was one of the last stegosaurs to walk the Earth, and its fossils were found in the Dzunbain Formation.21

Bizi izan zen
Duela 121 eta 100 milioi urte artean3
Behe Kretazeoa
Fosilak hemen aurkitu dira:
Chamrin-Us, Dornogov Province, Mongolia31
Abiadura maximoa
15 km/h inguru (9 mph)
Korrika egitea, kalkulua

Noiz bizi izan zen?

Triasikoa
Jurasikoa
Kretazeoa
Duela 252 milioi urte20114566, asteroidea

Zein azkarra zen?

gauza bikainak

Datu dibertigarriak

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Mongolostegus is the first and only stegosaur ever named from Mongolia.1

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Its fossils were discovered in 1981 by a joint Soviet and Mongolian expedition.1

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The only known specimen includes a caudosacral vertebra, five tail vertebrae, a sacral rib, and parts of the hip bones.1

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Mongolostegus lived near the end of the Early Cretaceous, making it one of the youngest stegosaurs ever found.1

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Scientists think Mongolostegus may have been an early-diverging stegosaur, related to older dinosaurs like Huayangosaurus.1

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The tail vertebrae of Mongolostegus have neural spines that are not expanded at the tips, a feature seen in more primitive stegosaurs.1

AAk eginaMongolostegus: AAk egindako irudia
Mongolostegus nolakoa izan zitekeen erakusten duen AAk egindako irudia, ordenagailu batek zientzialariek dakitenetik sortua. Asmakizun bat da: benetako animalia desberdina izan zitekeen, eta inork ez daki zein ziren bere benetako koloreak.
zure galderak

Mongolostegus: gehien egindako galderak

?How big was Mongolostegus?

Nobody knows for sure. Only a few bones have been found, so scientists cannot estimate its size.1

?What did Mongolostegus eat?

It was a herbivore, meaning it ate plants.3

?When did Mongolostegus live?

It lived during the Early Cretaceous, about 121 to 100 million years ago.1

?Is Mongolostegus a dinosaur?

Yes, it is a dinosaur. It belongs to the group Stegosauria, which are plated dinosaurs.1

Dino adituentzat

Izen zientifikoa
Mongolostegus
Izendatzailea:
Tumanova and Alifanov 20183
Taldea
Dino plakadunak
Familia / klada
Stegosauridae3
Sailkapena
Ornithischia > Stegosauria > Thyreophora3
Arroken adina
121 eta 100 milioi urte artean (Aptian / Albian)3
Arroka-formazioak
Dzunbain3
Herrialdeak
Mongolia3
Fosil-erregistroak
1 The Paleobiology Database datu-basean3
Aurkikuntza
Mongolostegus was first reported in 2005 as an unidentified stegosaur, then informally named Wuerhosaurus mongoliensis in 2014. In 2018, Tumanova and Alifanov formally named it Mongolostegus exspectabilis based on a partial skeleton found in the Dzunbain Formation of Mongolia.1
Oraindik eztabaidagai
Scientists are not sure whether Mongolostegus was a member of the early-diverging Huayangosauridae or a primitive stegosaurid, because its fossils are too fragmentary.1

Datuak nondik datozen

  1. Mongolostegus (en.wikipedia.org)
  2. PBDB Taxon (paleobiodb.org)
  3. Mongolostegus in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): adina, tokiak, arroka-formazioak, sailkapena.

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