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Kryptops

O nome significa: “covered face”1
Comía: CarneDinos carnívorosCretáceo Inferior

Kryptops was a meat-eating dinosaur that lived in what is now the Sahara Desert in Africa. It had a rough, bumpy face that might have been covered with a hard, horny layer like a beak. It was one of the oldest members of its family, the abelisaurids.1

Viviu
hai entre 121 e 100 millóns de anos5
Cretáceo Inferior
Fósiles atopados en
Gadoufaoua, Ténéré Desert, Niger1
Lonxitude
6 a 7 m (20 a 23 ft)1
Peso
500 kg (1 100 lb)3
Altura
2 m (6,6 ft)3
Velocidade máxima
uns 42 km/h (26 mph)
Correr, estimación

Cando viviu?

Triásico
Xurásico
Cretáceo
Hai 252 millóns de anos20114566, o asteroide

Como era de grande?

Canto medía de longo?

Kryptops uns 7 m de longo (23 ft)Unha bici de adulto uns 1,8 m (5,9 ft)Un coche uns 4,5 m (15 ft)Un elefante, o animal terrestre máis grande de hoxe uns 6,5 m (21 ft)

Canto medía de alto?

Un canuns 0,5 m (1,6 ft)Un cabalouns 1,6 m (5,2 ft)Kryptopsuns 2 m de alto (6,6 ft)Un elefanteuns 3,2 m (10 ft)

Canto pesaba?

tan pesado coma 25 cans
tan longo coma 7 cans do fociño á colatan longo coma 39 plátanos postos un tras outrotan pesado coma 100 sandíastan pesado coma 26 nenos de infantiltan pesado coma 16 nenos de primariapodería correr 100 metros en 8,6 segundos (o humano máis rápido necesita 9,6)

Como era de grande Kryptops comparado CONTIGO?

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Que velocidade alcanzaba?

cousas xeniais

Datos curiosos

1

Kryptops is one of the oldest known abelisaurids, a family of meat-eating dinosaurs that later included Carnotaurus.1

2

The outside of its upper jaw bone had deep grooves and pits, which suggests it was covered with a tight, horny covering like keratin.1

3

Kryptops lived about 112 million years ago during the Early Cretaceous period.1

4

Only one specimen of Kryptops has been found, and it includes an upper jaw bone, some back bones, ribs, and hip bones.1

5

Some bones that were first thought to belong to Kryptops later turned out to be from a different dinosaur, an allosauroid.1

Feito con IAImaxe de Kryptops feita con IA
Unha imaxe feita con IA de como podería ser Kryptops, creada por un ordenador a partir do que saben os científicos. É unha suposición: o animal real podía ser diferente, e ninguén sabe as súas cores de verdade.
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As preguntas máis frecuentes sobre Kryptops

?How big was Kryptops?

About 6 to 7 metres (19.7 to 23.0 feet) long, which is similar in size to later abelisaurids like Carnotaurus.1

?What did Kryptops eat?

It was a meat-eater that probably ate dead animals like a hyena, using its short jaws and small teeth to gnaw on carcasses.4

?Did Kryptops have feathers?

Nobody knows for sure, but its face was covered in a hard, horny layer like keratin, not feathers.1

?Why did Kryptops have a rough face?

Its upper jaw had deep grooves and pits that probably held a tight, horny covering like a beak, which gave it the name 'covered face'.1

?Is Kryptops a dinosaur?

Yes, it is a dinosaur. It was a meat-eating theropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous period.1

?When did Kryptops live?

It lived about 112 million years ago, during the Early Cretaceous period (Aptian to Albian ages).1

Para expertos en dinos

Nome científico
Kryptops
Bautizado por
Sereno and Brusatte 20085
Grupo
Dinos carnívoros
Familia / clado
Abelisauridae5
Clasificación
Theropoda > Ceratosauria > Abelisauridae5
Idade das rochas
de 121 a 100 millóns de anos (Aptian / Albian)5
Formacións rochosas
Elrhaz5
Países
Níxer5
Rexistros fósiles
1 na Paleobiology Database5
Descubrimento
Kryptops was named in 2008 by paleontologists Paul Sereno and Steve Brusatte. The fossils were found in 2000 during a University of Chicago expedition to Niger led by Sereno.1
Aínda en debate
Scientists are not sure if all the bones assigned to Kryptops really belong to it, because some may be from a different dinosaur.1

De onde veñen os datos

  1. Kryptops (en.wikipedia.org)
  2. PBDB Taxon (paleobiodb.org)
  3. Kryptops | Part of the Theropod Family of Dinosaurs (dinosaurmadness.com)
  4. New meat-eating dinosaur duo from Sahara ate like hyenas, sharks | University of Chicago News (news.uchicago.edu)
  5. Kryptops in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): idade, lugares, formacións rochosas, clasificación.

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