Chakisaurus
Chakisaurus was a fast-running, plant-eating dinosaur that lived in what is now Argentina about 90 million years ago. It had a strange tail that curved downward, unlike most other dinosaurs. It could run very quickly to escape predators.1
Cura viveva el?
Quant grond era el?
Quant lung era el?
Quant aut era el?
uschè lung sco 3 chauns dal nas a la cua🍌uschè lung sco 17 bananas ina suenter l'autra🏃pudess currer 100 meters en 7,8 secundas (il pli spert uman dovra 9,6)Quant grond era Chakisaurus cumpareglià cun TAI?
Mo matematica en tes navigatur. Nagut na vegn arcunà u tramess.
Quant spert era el?
Fatgs divertents
Chakisaurus had a tail that curved downward, which is very unusual for a dinosaur. Most dinosaurs held their tails straight out.1
It was a fast runner, and scientists think its curved tail helped it balance while running.1
Chakisaurus was about the size of a large dog, reaching 2.5 to 3 meters (8 to 10 feet) long.1
It lived during the Late Cretaceous period, about 90 million years ago.1
Chakisaurus is the first named ornithischian dinosaur from the Huincul Formation in Argentina.2
Its name comes from the Tehuelche word 'chaki' meaning guanaco, a fast South American animal, and 'saurus' meaning lizard.1

Las dumondas las pli frequentas davart Chakisaurus
?How big was Chakisaurus?
About 2.5 to 3 metres long and 70 centimetres tall at the hip, roughly the size of a large dog.1
?What did Chakisaurus eat?
It was a plant-eater, or herbivore, that ate leaves and other plants.1
?Why did Chakisaurus have a curved tail?
Scientists think the downward-curved tail helped it balance while running fast, but they are still studying it.31
?When did Chakisaurus live?
It lived about 90 million years ago, during the Late Cretaceous Period.1
Per experts da dinos
- Num scientific
- Chakisaurus
- Numnà da
- Nogueira et al. 20244
- Gruppa
- Erbivors cun pichel
- Famiglia / clada
- Elasmaria4
- Classificaziun
- Ornithischia > Ornithopoda > Iguanodontia4
- Vegliadetgna da la crappa
- 110 fin 106 milliuns onns (Albian)4
- Formaziuns da crap
- Huincul4
- Pajais
- Argentinia4
- Chats da fossils
- 1 en The Paleobiology Database4
- Scuverta
- Chakisaurus was named by Rodrigo Alvarez Nogueira and colleagues in 2024. The fossils were found at the Pueblo Blanco Natural Reserve in Río Negro, Argentina.41
- Anc discutà
- Scientists are still debating exactly how Chakisaurus used its downward-curved tail, and whether it helped with running or something else.1
Danunder che vegnan ils fatgs
- Argentine scientists find speedy 90-million-year-old herbivore dinosaur | Reuters (reuters.com)
- A new ornithopod from the Upper Cretaceous (Huincul Formation) of northwestern Patagonia, Argentina: Implications on elasmarian postcranial anatomy (sciencedirect.com)
- Chakisaurus (en.wikipedia.org)
- Chakisaurus in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): vegliadetgna, lieus, formaziuns da crap, classificaziun.
Mintga fatg sin questa pagina ha in numer che maina tar sia funtauna. Sche nus avain fatg in sbagl, perstgisa, nus essan fans da dinos, betg ina revista scientifica. Scriva a nus sin [email protected] e nus il curregin.
Rex ha fom! Dino Wiki è in project d'in bab per ses figl che ama ils dinos, gratuit, senza reclama e senza trackers. Ils creschids pon dar ina marenda a Rex per gidar a tegnair la pagina online.Pavlar Rex