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Miragaia

Dzina limatanthauza: “wonderful goddess of the Earth”1
Ankadya: ZomeraMadino a mbale kumsanaKumapeto kwa Jurasiki mpaka Kumayambiriro kwa Kretase

Miragaia was a stegosaur, a plant-eating dinosaur with plates and spines on its back. It had an unusually long neck, much longer than most other stegosaurs. This gentle giant lived in what is now Portugal and the United States during the Late Jurassic period.12

Ankakhala
zaka 155 mpaka 121 miliyoni zapitazo3
Kumapeto kwa Jurasiki mpaka Kumayambiriro kwa Kretase
Mafosili apezeka ku
Portugal (Lourinhã Formation) and the United States (Morrison Formation in Utah and Wyoming)12
Utali
5.5 mpaka 6.5 m (18 mpaka 21 ft)1
Msinkhu
1.9 m (6.2 ft)
kuyerekeza
Liwiro lalikulu kwambiri
pafupifupi 15 km/h (9 mph)
Kuthamanga, kuyerekeza

Ankakhala liti?

Triasiki
Jurasiki
Kretase
Zaka 252 miliyoni zapitazo20114566, asteroidi

Anali wamkulu bwanji?

Anali wautali bwanji?

Miragaia utali wa pafupifupi 6.5 m (21 ft)Njinga ya munthu wamkulu pafupifupi 1.8 m (5.9 ft)Galimoto pafupifupi 4.5 m (15 ft)Njovu, nyama yaikulu kwambiri pamtunda masiku ano pafupifupi 6.5 m (21 ft)

Msinkhu wake unali wautali bwanji?

Galupafupifupi 0.5 m (1.6 ft)Hatchipafupifupi 1.6 m (5.2 ft)Miragaiamsinkhu wa pafupifupi 1.9 m (6.2 ft)Njovupafupifupi 3.2 m (10 ft)

kuyerekeza

wautali ngati agalu 6 otsatizana mphuno ndi mchirawautali ngati nthochi 36 zotsatizanaakanatha kuthamanga mamita 100 m'masekondi 24 (munthu waliwiro kwambiri amafunika 9.6)

Miragaia anali wamkulu bwanji poyerekeza ndi IWEYO?

Ndi masamu chabe mu msakatuli wako. Palibe chimene chimasungidwa kapena kutumizidwa kwina kulikonse.

Anali ndi liwiro lotani?

zinthu zosangalatsa

Mfundo zosangalatsa

1

Miragaia had at least 17 neck vertebrae, giving it a very long neck for a stegosaur. Most stegosaurs had fewer than 13.1

2

The name Miragaia comes from the village where it was found, Miragaia in Portugal, and also means 'wonderful goddess of the Earth'.1

3

Miragaia belonged to a group called Dacentrurinae, which includes its close relative Dacentrurus. Scientists used to think many stegosaur fossils from Portugal and Spain were Dacentrurus, but now they know some are Miragaia.1

4

A nearly complete skeleton of Miragaia was discovered in 1959 in Atouguia da Baleia, Peniche, Portugal, but it was not described until many years later.1

5

Miragaia shared features with a stegosaur from Wyoming called Alcovasaurus longispinus, suggesting that a land bridge once connected North America and Iberia (Portugal and Spain).1

6

The plates on Miragaia's back were probably used for display, and the spines on its tail (called a thagomizer) could have been a weapon against predators.1

Chopangidwa ndi AIChithunzi cha Miragaia chopangidwa ndi AI
Chithunzi cha momwe Miragaia mwina ankaonekera, chopangidwa ndi kompyuta kuchokera pa zomwe asayansi amadziwa. Ndi kungoyerekeza: nyama yeniyeniyo mwina inkaoneka mosiyana, ndipo palibe amene akudziwa mitundu yake yeniyeni.

Wothetsa nthano zabodza

Nthano: Miragaia is sometimes thought to be a species of Dacentrurus.

Zoona: Scientists now agree that Miragaia is a separate, valid genus, different from Dacentrurus in many ways, such as its longer neck and different vertebrae.1

Kwa akatswiri a madino

Dzina la sayansi
Miragaia
Anapatsidwa dzina ndi
Mateus et al. 20093
Gulu
Madino a mbale kumsana
Banja / kladi
Stegosauridae3
Magawidwe a sayansi
Ornithischia > Stegosauria > Thyreophora3
Zaka za miyala
zaka 155 mpaka 121 miliyoni (Kimmeridgian / Barremian)3
Mapangidwe a miyala
Morrison3
Mayiko
Amereka3
Zolemba za mafosili
31 mu The Paleobiology Database3
Kupezeka
Miragaia was named in 2009 by Octávio Mateus and colleagues, based on a partial skeleton found near the village of Miragaia in the Lourinhã Formation of Portugal. The holotype specimen includes much of the front half of the skeleton.1
Akukambiranabe
Scientists still debate exactly how many species of Miragaia existed, and whether some fossils from North America belong to this genus or to its close relative Dacentrurus.2

Kumene mfundo zimachokera

  1. Dacentrurine stegosaurs (Dinosauria): A new specimen of Miragaia longicollum from the Late Jurassic of Portugal resolves taxonomical validity and shows the occurrence of the clade in North America (pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
  2. Dacentrurine Stegosaurs in North America: New Occurrences from the Upper Jurassic of USA (Morrison Formation) (dinodata.de)
  3. Miragaia in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): zaka, malo, mapangidwe a miyala, magawidwe a sayansi.

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