Zaraapelta

O nome significa: “hedgehog shield”1 2

Comía: PlantasDinos acoirazadosCretáceo Superior

Zaraapelta was an armoured dinosaur that walked on four legs and munched on plants. It had a bumpy, spiky skull with fancy horns, making it look like a walking tank. It lived in the Gobi Desert during the Late Cretaceous, about 75 million years ago.1 2

Viviu

hai entre 100 e 84 millóns de anos4

Cretáceo Superior

Fósiles atopados en

Gobi Desert, near Hermiin Tsav, Mongolia1 2

Velocidade máxima

uns 15 km/h (9 mph)

Correr, estimación

Cando viviu?

Triásico

Xurásico

Cretáceo

Hai 252 millóns de anos20114566, o asteroide

Que velocidade alcanzaba?

Unha persoa camiñando uns 5 km/h (3 mph)

Un neno en bici uns 12 km/h (7 mph)

Zaraapelta uns 15 km/h (9 mph)

Un cabalo ao galope uns 65 km/h (40 mph)

Un guepardo uns 100 km/h (62 mph)

cousas xeniais

Datos curiosos

Zaraapelta's skull was covered in bumpy armour plates called osteoderms, and it had an especially fancy pattern of bumps and grooves behind its eye.1 2

The horns on the back of its skull had a smooth ridge on top, which is different from any other ankylosaur.1 3

Scientists think the fancy skull ornaments might have been used to attract mates, like a peacock's tail feathers.2

Zaraapelta lived alongside two other ankylosaurs, Saichania and Tarchia, in the same desert.1 2

The only known fossil is a skull missing the snout tip, and it probably belonged to a young adult.1

The name Zaraapelta comes from the Mongolian word for hedgehog and the Greek word for small shield, because ankylosaurs looked prickly and armoured.1 2

Imaxe de Zaraapelta feita con IA — Unha imaxe feita con IA de como podería ser Zaraapelta, 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 Zaraapelta

?How big was Zaraapelta?

The only known skull is about 40 centimetres long, so Zaraapelta was a medium-sized ankylosaur.1

?What did Zaraapelta eat?

It was a herbivore, eating plants.1

?Who discovered Zaraapelta?

It was discovered in 2000 by a team led by Phil Currie, and named in 2014 by Victoria Arbour.1 2

?What was Zaraapelta's closest relative?

Its closest known relative is Tarchia, another ankylosaur from Mongolia.1

Cazamitos

Mito: Some people think all armoured dinosaurs had tail clubs.

Verdade: Zaraapelta is known only from a skull, so scientists don't know if it had a tail club. Many ankylosaurs did, but not all.1

Para expertos en dinos

Nome científico: Zaraapelta
Bautizado por: Arbour et al. 20144
Grupo: Dinos acoirazados
Familia / clado: Ankylosauridae4
Clasificación: Ornithischia > Ankylosauria > Ankylosauridae > Thyreophora4
Idade das rochas: de 100 a 84 millóns de anos (Cenomanian / Santonian)4
Formacións rochosas: Baynshire4
Países: Mongolia4
Rexistros fósiles: 1 na Paleobiology Database4
Descubrimento: The skull was found in 2000 by a team led by Phil Currie in the Gobi Desert. In 2014, Victoria Arbour, Philip Currie, and Demchig Badamgarav named it Zaraapelta nomadis.1 2
Aínda en debate: Scientists are still debating exactly how Zaraapelta is related to other ankylosaurs, and whether its fancy head ornaments were for protection or for showing off.1 2

De onde veñen os datos

Zaraapelta (en.wikipedia.org)
UAlberta paleontologists name new armoured dinosaur (ualberta.ca)
PBDB Taxon (paleobiodb.org)
Zaraapelta in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): idade, lugares, formacións rochosas, clasificación.

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