Aardonyx
Aardonyx was a dinosaur that lived in South Africa about 200 million years ago. It could walk on two legs or sometimes use all four legs, like a bridge between earlier dinosaurs and the giant long-necked sauropods. It ate plants and had leaf-shaped teeth for stripping leaves off branches.2
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akka saree 75 ulfaata๐akka habxuu 300 ulfaata๐งธakka ijoollee KG 79 ulfaata๐akka ijoollee mana barumsaa 47 ulfaata๐ปโโ๏ธakka beeraa adii 3 ulfaata๐meetira 100 sekondii 14 keessatti fiiguu danda'a (namni hunda caalaa saffisaan 9.6 barbaada)SI wajjin yoo wal bira qabamu, Aardonyx hammam guddaa ture?
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Aardonyx had narrow jaws that lacked fleshy cheeks, which was surprising because scientists thought wide jaws evolved before cheeks were lost.1
The name Aardonyx comes from Afrikaans 'aard' meaning Earth and Greek 'onyx' meaning claw, because many bones had a thick red coating of hematite.1
The only known fossils of Aardonyx are from two young individuals, not one full-grown dinosaur.2
Aardonyx could walk on two legs but also had features that helped it walk on all fours, like a special bump on its arm bone for strong muscles.1
Its foot bones show that the weight-bearing part shifted to the inside of the foot, a trait that later sauropods had.1

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?How big was Aardonyx?
About 7 metres (23 feet) long. The only known fossils are from two young individuals that were still growing, so adults may have been a bit larger.2
?What did Aardonyx eat?
Aardonyx was a herbivore that ate leaves and other foliage. It had leaf-shaped teeth for stripping vegetation from branches.2
?Could Aardonyx walk on two legs?
Yes, it usually walked on two legs but could also drop to all fours. Its skeleton shows features of both bipedal and quadrupedal movement.24
?When did Aardonyx live?
It lived during the Early Jurassic, about 200 to 190 million years ago.2
Ogeeyyii daayinootiif
- Maqaa saayinsii
- Aardonyx
- Kan maqaa baase
- Yates et al. 20105
- Garee
- Morma-dheertota
- Maatii / kilaadii
- Sauropodiformes5
- Ramaddii
- Sauropodomorpha5
- Umurii dhagaawwanii
- waggaa miliyoona 201 hanga 193 (Hettangian / Sinemurian)5
- Caasaawwan dhagaa
- Elliot5
- Biyyoota
- Afrikaa Kibbaa5
- Galmee fosilii
- 1 The Paleobiology Database keessa5
- Argannoo
- Aardonyx was named in 2009 by scientists Yates, Bonnan, Neveling, Chinsamy and Blackbeard. The fossils were found in South Africa and the species name 'celestae' honors Celeste Yates, who prepared many of the bones.21
- Ammallee falmisiisaa
- Scientists are still debating exactly how Aardonyx moved, because it shows a mix of two-legged and four-legged features.1
Odeeffannoon eessaa dhufa
- A new transitional sauropodomorph dinosaur from the Early Jurassic of South Africa and the evolution of sauropod feeding and quadrupedalism (pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
- Aardonyx | Natural History Museum (nhm.ac.uk)
- New African dinosaur was very down to earth | UCT News (news.uct.ac.za)
- Aardonyx (en.wikipedia.org)
- Aardonyx in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): umurii, bakkeewwan, caasaawwan dhagaa, ramaddii.
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