Iyuku
Iyuku was a small, plant-eating dinosaur that lived in what is now South Africa. What makes it really special is that almost all the fossils found are from babies and very young dinosaurs! Scientists think a whole group of Iyuku hatchlings died together during a dry season.21
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All the juvenile Iyuku bones were found in a single, small bonebed, suggesting a group of hatchlings died together.21
The name Iyuku comes from the Xhosa language and means 'hatchling', because almost all the fossils are from very young animals.1
Iyuku lived during the Early Cretaceous period, about 137 to 132 million years ago.4
The bonebed where Iyuku was found also contained rare theropod teeth, crocodile teeth, turtle shell fragments, and fish bones.1

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?How big was Iyuku?
Iyuku was a small dinosaur. A subadult's shin bone was about 35 to 42 centimetres long, so the whole animal was probably the size of a large dog.3
?What did Iyuku eat?
Iyuku was a plant-eating dinosaur. It ate plants like ferns and leaves.3
?Why is Iyuku called a hatchling?
Its name comes from the Xhosa word for 'hatchling' because almost all the fossils found are from babies and very young dinosaurs.3
?When did Iyuku live?
Iyuku lived during the Early Cretaceous period, about 137 to 132 million years ago.3
Үлэг гүрвэлийн мэргэжилтнүүдэд
- Шинжлэх ухааны нэр
- Iyuku
- Нэр өгсөн
- Forster et al. 20224
- Бүлэг
- Хушуутай өвсөн тэжээлтнүүд
- Овог / клад
- Euiguanodontia4
- Ангилал
- Ornithischia > Ornithopoda > Iguanodontia4
- Чулуулгийн нас
- 137 / 133 сая жил (Valanginian)4
- Чулуулгийн формацууд
- Kirkwood4
- Улсууд
- Өмнөд Африк4
- Чулуужсан олдворын бүртгэл
- The Paleobiology Database дээр 14
- Нээлт
- Iyuku was named in 2022 by Catherine Forster and her team based on fossils collected from 1995 to 1999 in the Kirkwood Formation, South Africa. The species name honors Dr. Michael Raath for his work on southern African fossils.1
- Маргаантай хэвээр
- Scientists are not sure exactly how big Iyuku grew, because almost all the fossils are from babies and juveniles, not adults.1
Баримтууд хаанаас ирдэг вэ
- Iyuku raathi , a new iguanodontian dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous Kirkwood Formation, South Africa (anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com)
- Iyuku raathi, a new iguanodontian dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous Kirkwood Formation, South Africa (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
- Iyuku (en.wikipedia.org)
- Iyuku in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): нас, газар, чулуулгийн формац, ангилал.
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