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Aletopelta

Il num vul dir: “wanderer shield”1

Mangiava: PlantasDinos cun armaduraCretacic tardiv

Aletopelta was an armoured dinosaur that lived near the coast of California about 75 million years ago. It was covered in bony plates and had a big shield of bone over its hips. After it died, its body floated out to sea and became a tiny reef on the ocean floor!1

Viveva

avant 84 fin 72 milliuns onns5

Cretacic tardiv

Fossils chattads en

Carlsbad, California, USA1 5

Lunghezza

5 fin 6 m (16 fin 20 ft)1

Paisa

2 tonnas (4 400 lb)1

Autezza

1,7 m (5,6 ft)

stima

Spertadad maximala

var 15 km/h (9 mph)

Currer, stima

Cura viveva el?

Triassic

Giurassic

Cretacic

avant 252 milliuns onns20114566, l'asteroid

Quant grond era el?

Quant lung era el?

Quant aut era el?

stima

Quant grev era el?

uschè grev sco 1,5 autos

uschè lung sco 6 chauns dal nas a la cuauschè lung sco 33 bananas ina suenter l'autrauschè grev sco 100 chaunsuschè grev sco 400 melunasuschè grev sco 2,5 classas da scola entirasuschè grev sco 4 urs polarspudess currer 100 meters en 24 secundas (il pli spert uman dovra 9,6)

Quant grond era Aletopelta cumpareglià cun TAI?

Mo matematica en tes navigatur. Nagut na vegn arcunà u tramess.

Quant spert era el?

Ina persuna che va a pe var 5 km/h (3 mph)

In uffant sin il velo var 12 km/h (7 mph)

Aletopelta var 15 km/h (9 mph)

In chaval che galoppescha var 65 km/h (40 mph)

In gepard var 100 km/h (62 mph)

chaussas cool

Fatgs divertents

Aletopelta's body was carried out to sea by a stream, and it sank upside down, becoming a mini reef where oysters and other sea creatures attached to its bones.1

Sharks like Squalicorax and Scapanorhynchus scavenged the dead dinosaur, leaving hollow bones and shallow pits in its armour plates.1

The name Aletopelta means 'wanderer shield' because the tectonic plate carrying its fossils drifted north from near Mexico to California over millions of years.1

Aletopelta had a pelvic shield made of many six-sided bony plates that were fused together.1

The only known skeleton of Aletopelta might be from a young animal, because some of its bones were not fully fused.1

Maletg da Aletopelta fatg cun IA — In maletg fatg cun IA che mussa co Aletopelta pudess avair guardà ora, fatg d'in computer tenor quai che la scienza sa. I sa tracta d'ina supposiziun: l'animal vair ha forsa guardà ora auter, e sias colurs vairas èn nunenconuschentas.

tias dumondas

Las dumondas las pli frequentas davart Aletopelta

?How big was Aletopelta?

About 5 metres (16 feet) long and weighed about 2 tonnes (4,409 lbs). Some scientists have estimated it at 6 metres (19.7 feet) long.1

?What did Aletopelta eat?

It was a plant-eater. It foraged for plants along the edges of rivers and estuaries.3

?Did Aletopelta have a tail club?

Scientists are not sure. The tail was not found, but some experts think it was an ankylosaurid and may have had a bony tail club.3 4

?Where was Aletopelta found?

It was found in Carlsbad, California, near College Boulevard, during a road construction project in 1987.1 3

Per experts da dinos

Num scientific: Aletopelta
Numnà da: Ford and Kirkland 20015
Gruppa: Dinos cun armadura
Famiglia / clada: Ankylosauridae5
Classificaziun: Ornithischia > Ankylosauria > Ankylosauridae > Thyreophora5
Vegliadetgna da la crappa: 84 fin 72 milliuns onns (Campanian)5
Formaziuns da crap: Point Loma5
Pajais: USA5
Chats da fossils: 1 en The Paleobiology Database5
Scuverta: In 1987, construction workers digging a sewage pipe near Carlsbad, California, uncovered the skeleton. It was first described in 1996 by Thomas Deméré and Walter Coombs, and officially named Aletopelta coombsi in 2001 by Tracy Ford and James Kirkland.1
Anc discutà: Scientists still debate whether Aletopelta was an ankylosaurid or a nodosaurid, and some have even called it a nomen dubium (doubtful name) because its fossils are incomplete.1 2

Danunder che vegnan ils fatgs

Aletopelta (en.wikipedia.org)
PBDB Taxon (paleobiodb.org)
The Nat | Ankylosaur (sdnhm.org)
Ankylosaur Reef (smithsonianmag.com)
Aletopelta in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): vegliadetgna, lieus, formaziuns da crap, classificaziun.

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