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Machairoceratops

Il num vul dir: “bent sword horned face”1

Mangiava: PlantasDinos cun cornsCretacic tardiv

Machairoceratops was a horned dinosaur that lived in what is now Utah, USA, about 80 million years ago. It had two long, forward-curving spikes on the back of its frill, like bent swords. This dinosaur was a plant-eater that walked on four legs.1 2

Viveva

avant 84 fin 72 milliuns onns4

Cretacic tardiv

Fossils chattads en

Grand Staircase,Escalante National Monument, southern Utah, USA1 2

Lunghezza

6 fin 8 m (20 fin 26 ft)2

Paisa

1 tonnas fin 2 tonnas (2 200 fin 4 400 lb)2

Autezza

2,4 m (7,9 ft)

stima

Spertadad maximala

var 36 km/h (22 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 8 chauns dal nas a la cuauschè lung sco 44 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 10 secundas (il pli spert uman dovra 9,6)

Quant grond era Machairoceratops 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)

Machairoceratops var 36 km/h (22 mph)

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

In gepard var 100 km/h (62 mph)

chaussas cool

Fatgs divertents

Machairoceratops had two long, forward-curving spikes on the top of its frill, each about 44 cm long. These spikes had a strange groove running from base to tip, and scientists are not sure what it was for.1 2

Its postorbital horns (above the eyes) were about 27 cm long, but they were found detached from the skull, so their exact angle is unknown.1

This dinosaur lived about 80 million years ago, during the Late Cretaceous. At that time, a huge sea split North America into two landmasses, and Machairoceratops lived on the western part called Laramidia.1 2

Machairoceratops is known from only one partial skull, found in 2006. The skull includes the braincase, left squamosal, and the unique frill bones.1

It was a centrosaurine ceratopsian, a group of horned dinosaurs that usually had large nose horns and fancy frills. Machairoceratops is one of the few centrosaurines found in the southern part of Laramidia.1 2

The name 'cronusi' refers to Cronus, a Greek god who used a curved blade. This matches the bent-sword shape of the dinosaur's frill spikes.1

Maletg da Machairoceratops fatg cun IA — In maletg fatg cun IA che mussa co Machairoceratops 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 Machairoceratops

?How big was Machairoceratops?

Scientists do not know its exact size, but its skull is very close in size to Diabloceratops, another horned dinosaur. It was a medium-sized ceratopsian, probably similar in length to a small car.1

?What did Machairoceratops eat?

It was a plant-eater (herbivore) that walked on four legs and used its beak to eat plants like ferns and cycads.1

?When did Machairoceratops live?

It lived about 80 million years ago, during the Late Cretaceous Period, in what is now Utah, USA.1

?Why does Machairoceratops have bent spikes?

The two long, forward-curving spikes on its frill looked like bent swords, which is how it got its name. Scientists are not sure exactly what they were used for, but they may have been for display or defense.1

Per experts da dinos

Num scientific: Machairoceratops
Numnà da: Lund et al. 20164
Gruppa: Dinos cun corns
Famiglia / clada: Ceratopsidae4
Classificaziun: Ornithischia > Ceratopsia > Ceratopsidae4
Vegliadetgna da la crappa: 84 fin 72 milliuns onns (Campanian)4
Formaziuns da crap: Wahweap4
Pajais: USA4
Chats da fossils: 1 en The Paleobiology Database4
Scuverta: Machairoceratops was named in 2016 by Eric K. Lund and colleagues. The only known fossil was found in 2006 in Grand Staircase,Escalante National Monument, Utah, and is stored at the Natural History Museum of Utah.1 2
Anc discutà: Scientists are not sure why the frill spikes have a groove along their length. It might have been for display, or something else.2

Danunder che vegnan ils fatgs

Machairoceratops (en.wikipedia.org)
Paleontologists discover new species of horned dinosaur in southern Utah (nhmu.utah.edu)
PBDB Taxon (paleobiodb.org)
Machairoceratops in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): vegliadetgna, lieus, formaziuns da crap, classificaziun.

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