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Galeamopus

Il num vul dir: “helmet need”1
Mangiava: PlantasCuliezs lungsGiurassic tardiv fin Cretacic tempriv

Galeamopus was a huge, long-necked plant-eater that lived during the Late Jurassic. It had a whip-like tail and a small head, and it munched on ferns and other plants.1

Viveva
avant 155 fin 143 milliuns onns5
Giurassic tardiv fin Cretacic tempriv
Fossils chattads en
Wyoming and Colorado, USA15
Lunghezza
12 fin 14 m (39 fin 46 ft)2
Autezza
3,3 m (11 ft)
stima
Spertadad maximala
var 17 km/h (11 mph)
Currer, stima

Cura viveva el?

Triassic
Giurassic
Cretacic
avant 252 milliuns onns20114566, l'asteroid

Quant grond era el?

Quant lung era el?

Galeamopus var 14 m lung (46 ft)In velo da creschids var 1,8 m (5,9 ft)In auto var 4,5 m (15 ft)In elefant, il pli grond animal da terra dad oz var 6,5 m (21 ft)

Quant aut era el?

In chaunvar 0,5 m (1,6 ft)In chavalvar 1,6 m (5,2 ft)In elefantvar 3,2 m (10 ft)Galeamopusvar 3,3 m aut (11 ft)

stima

uschè lung sco 3 autos parcads in suenter l'auteruschè lung sco 78 bananas ina suenter l'autrapudess currer 100 meters en 21 secundas (il pli spert uman dovra 9,6)

Quant grond era Galeamopus cumpareglià cun TAI?

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

Quant spert era el?

chaussas cool

Fatgs divertents

1

Galeamopus was named in 2015, but its fossils were first found in 1884.1

2

The name Galeamopus means 'helmet need', a joke about the brittle braincase of the type specimen.1

3

Galeamopus had a unique skull with a curved paroccipital process on the back of the head.1

4

It had thirteen unique features that set it apart from other diplodocid dinosaurs.1

5

The first Galeamopus skeleton was found by William H. Utterback in 1902 near Sheridan, Wyoming.1

6

One Galeamopus specimen, nicknamed 'Max', was discovered in 1995 at the Howe-Stephens Quarry.1

Fatg cun IAMaletg da Galeamopus fatg cun IA
In maletg fatg cun IA che mussa co Galeamopus 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.
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Las dumondas las pli frequentas davart Galeamopus

?How big was Galeamopus?

Scientists have not published a specific length or weight for Galeamopus, but as a diplodocid sauropod it was probably similar in size to other diplodocids, which could reach about 25 metres (82 feet) long.1

?When did Galeamopus live?

Galeamopus lived during the Late Jurassic, about 155 to 152 million years ago.13

?What did Galeamopus eat?

Galeamopus was a herbivore that ate plants like ferns, as mentioned in the page intro.1

?Where was Galeamopus found?

Galeamopus fossils have been found in Wyoming and Colorado in the United States.14

Per experts da dinos

Num scientific
Galeamopus
Numnà da
Tschopp et al. 20155
Gruppa
Culiezs lungs
Famiglia / clada
Diplodocidae5
Classificaziun
Sauropodomorpha > Sauropoda > Diplodocoidea5
Vegliadetgna da la crappa
155 fin 143 milliuns onns (Kimmeridgian / Tithonian)5
Formaziuns da crap
Morrison5
Pajais
USA5
Chats da fossils
6 en The Paleobiology Database5
Scuverta
The first fossils of Galeamopus were collected in 1884 by Marshall P. Felch in Colorado, but the genus was named in 2015 by Emanuel Tschopp, Octávio Mateus, and Roger Benson.1
Anc discutà
Scientists are still debating whether some Galeamopus specimens belong to a separate species or are just variations of the same species.1

Danunder che vegnan ils fatgs

  1. Galeamopus (en.wikipedia.org)
  2. ncbi.nlm.nih.gov (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
  3. Paleo Profile: The "Need Helmet" Dinosaur | Scientific American (scientificamerican.com)
  4. PeerJ Osteology of Galeamopus pabsti sp. nov. (Sauropoda: Diplodocidae), with implications for neurocentral closure timing, and the cervico-dorsal transition in diplodocids (peerj.com)
  5. Galeamopus in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): vegliadetgna, lieus, formaziuns da crap, classificaziun.

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