Mymoorapelta
Mymoorapelta was a small, armoured dinosaur that lived about 155 to 150 million years ago. It had a flat, bony shield over its hips and sharp spikes along its sides and tail. This dinosaur used its armour to protect itself from big predators like Allosaurus.1
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Mymoorapelta is one of the earliest known nodosaurids, a group of armoured dinosaurs without a tail club.1
Its name honors Peter and Marilyn Mygatt and John D. and Vanetta Moore, who discovered the quarry where its fossils were found.2
The most complete specimen includes a partial skull, vertebrae, ribs, and many pieces of armour.1
Mymoorapelta had five different types of armour, from sharp spines to a large shield made of tiny bony plates over its hips.1
It was a small dinosaur, only about 3 metres (9.8 feet) long, making it one of the smallest armoured dinosaurs from the Jurassic.1
Fossils of the predator Allosaurus have been found with bite marks on Mymoorapelta bones, showing that Allosaurus hunted it.1
Mymoorapelta lived alongside giant sauropods like Apatosaurus and Camarasaurus, but it ate low plants while they ate high leaves.1

As preguntas máis frecuentes sobre Mymoorapelta
?How big was Mymoorapelta?
About 3 metres (9.8 feet) long. It weighed around 300 to 562 kilograms (661 to 1239 pounds).13
?What did Mymoorapelta eat?
It was a low browser that ate cycads and conifers, low-growing plants.3
?Did Mymoorapelta have a tail club?
No, it did not have a tail club. Instead, its tail bore spikes that it likely used for defense.3
?When did Mymoorapelta live?
It lived during the Late Jurassic, about 155 to 150 million years ago.3
?Where was Mymoorapelta found?
Its fossils were found in the Mygatt-Moore Quarry in western Colorado, USA.34
?Was Mymoorapelta a dinosaur?
Yes, it was a nodosaurid ankylosaur, a type of armoured dinosaur.3
Para expertos en dinos
- Nome científico
- Mymoorapelta
- Bautizado por
- Kirkland and Carpenter 19944
- Grupo
- Dinos acoirazados
- Familia / clado
- Ankylosauria4
- Clasificación
- Ornithischia > Ankylosauria > Thyreophora4
- Idade das rochas
- de 155 a 143 millóns de anos (Kimmeridgian / Tithonian)4
- Formacións rochosas
- Morrison4
- Países
- EUA4
- Rexistros fósiles
- 3 na Paleobiology Database4
- Descubrimento
- Mymoorapelta was named by James Kirkland and Kenneth Carpenter in 1994. The fossils were found in the Mygatt-Moore Quarry in western Colorado, which was discovered in 1981 by Peter and Marilyn Mygatt and John D. and Vanetta Moore.12
- Aínda en debate
- Scientists are not sure exactly how many different species of Mymoorapelta existed, because so few fossils have been found.1
De onde veñen os datos
- Mymoorapelta (en.wikipedia.org)
- geology.byu.edu (geology.byu.edu)
- Mymoorapelta (en.wikipedia.org)
- Mymoorapelta in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): idade, lugares, formacións rochosas, clasificación.
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