Zaraapelta
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.12
Ал качан жашаган?
Ал канчалык ылдам болгон?
Кызыктуу фактылар
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.12
The horns on the back of its skull had a smooth ridge on top, which is different from any other ankylosaur.13
Scientists think the fancy skull ornaments might have been used to attract mates, like a peacock's tail feathers.2
The only known fossil is a skull missing the snout tip, and it probably belonged to a young adult.1

Эң көп берилген суроолор: 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.12
?What was Zaraapelta's closest relative?
Its closest known relative is Tarchia, another ankylosaur from Mongolia.1
Мифти талкалоочу
Миф: Some people think all armoured dinosaurs had tail clubs.
Чындык: 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
Динозавр эксперттери үчүн
- Илимий аты
- Zaraapelta
- Ат койгон
- Arbour et al. 20144
- Топ
- Сооттуу динозаврлар
- Үй-бүлө / клада
- Ankylosauridae4
- Классификация
- Ornithischia > Ankylosauria > Ankylosauridae > Thyreophora4
- Тоо тектеринин жашы
- 100 … 84 миллион жыл (Cenomanian / Santonian)4
- Тоо тектеринин катмарлары
- Baynshire4
- Өлкөлөр
- Монголия4
- Таш калдык табылгалары
- The Paleobiology Database боюнча 1 жазуу4
- Табылышы
- 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.12
- Дагы эле талаштуу
- 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.12
Фактылар кайдан алынат
- 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): жашы, жерлери, тоо тектеринин катмарлары, классификациясы.
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