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Doolysaurus

O nome significa: “Dooly the Little Dinosaur lizard”1
Comía: PlantasHerbívoros con bicoCretáceo Inferior a Cretáceo Superior

Doolysaurus was a tiny, plant‑eating dinosaur that lived in what is now South Korea. It was about the size of a big dog and had a beak for snipping leaves. This little dinosaur is special because it is the first dinosaur from South Korea with skull bones that scientists could study.1

Viviu
hai entre 113 e 94 millóns de anos4
Cretáceo Inferior a Cretáceo Superior
Fósiles atopados en
Aphae Island, Shinan, South Korea14
Peso
8,3 kg (18 lb)1
Velocidade máxima
uns 32 km/h (20 mph)
Correr, estimación

Cando viviu?

Triásico
Xurásico
Cretáceo
Hai 252 millóns de anos20114566, o asteroide

Como era de grande?

Canto pesaba?

tan pesado coma 2 gatos domésticos
tan pesado coma 69 plátanospodería correr 100 metros en 11 segundos (o humano máis rápido necesita 9,6)

Como era de grande Doolysaurus comparado CONTIGO?

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Que velocidade alcanzaba?

cousas xeniais

Datos curiosos

1

Doolysaurus was named after a famous Korean cartoon character called Dooly the Little Dinosaur.1

2

The only known Doolysaurus fossil is a juvenile that weighed about 8.3 kilograms (18 pounds), as light as a big house cat.1

3

Scientists found 40 to 50 small stones (gastroliths) with the skeleton, which the dinosaur swallowed to help digest tough plants.1

4

Doolysaurus lived in a floodplain environment about 113 to 97 million years ago, alongside other dinosaurs like oviraptorosaurs and troodontids.1

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It is the second named basal neornithischian dinosaur from South Korea, after Koreanosaurus.1

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The fossil was discovered in 2023 by Hyemin Jo on Aphae Island.1

Feito con IAImaxe de Doolysaurus feita con IA
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As preguntas máis frecuentes sobre Doolysaurus

?How big was Doolysaurus?

The only known Doolysaurus fossil is a juvenile that weighed about 8.3 kilograms and was about the size of a big dog. As an adult it might have been twice as large.12

?Did Doolysaurus have feathers?

Scientists think Doolysaurus might have been covered in a fuzzy layer of feathers, like many small dinosaurs.2

?What did Doolysaurus eat?

Doolysaurus probably ate both plants and small food items, making it an omnivore. It swallowed small stones called gastroliths to help digest tough plants.13

?When did Doolysaurus live?

Doolysaurus lived during the Cretaceous Period, about 113 to 97 million years ago.12

?Where was Doolysaurus found?

The Doolysaurus fossil was discovered in 2023 on Aphae Island, off the southwestern coast of South Korea.12

?Why is Doolysaurus named after a cartoon?

Doolysaurus is named after Dooly the Little Dinosaur, a famous Korean cartoon character created in 1983.12

Para expertos en dinos

Nome científico
Doolysaurus
Bautizado por
Jung et al. 20264
Grupo
Herbívoros con bico
Familia / clado
Thescelosauridae4
Clasificación
Ornithischia4
Idade das rochas
de 113 a 94 millóns de anos (Albian / Cenomanian)4
Formacións rochosas
Ilseongsan4
Países
Corea do Sur4
Rexistros fósiles
1 na Paleobiology Database4
Descubrimento
The Doolysaurus fossil was found in 2023 by Hyemin Jo on Aphae Island, South Korea. It was named and described in 2026 by Jongyun Jung and colleagues, who named it after the cartoon character Dooly and paleontologist Min Huh.1
Aínda en debate
Scientists are not sure how big Doolysaurus grew as an adult, because only a juvenile skeleton has been found.1

De onde veñen os datos

  1. Doolysaurus (en.wikipedia.org)
  2. New species of baby dinosaur named after famous South Korean cartoon | Natural History Museum (nhm.ac.uk)
  3. A new dinosaur species from Korea and its implications for early-diverging neornithischian diversity (dinodata.de)
  4. Doolysaurus in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): idade, lugares, formacións rochosas, clasificación.

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