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Malefica

Il num vul dir: “witch or sorceress”1 2

Mangiava: PlantasPichels d'andaCretacic tardiv

Malefica was a duck-billed dinosaur that lived in what is now Texas, USA, about 83 to 72 million years ago. It is known from just one partial upper jaw bone, but scientists could tell it was a new kind of hadrosaur. Its name means 'witch' because it was found in Bruja Canyon, and 'bruja' is Spanish for witch.3 1 2

Viveva

avant 84 fin 72 milliuns onns5

Cretacic tardiv

Fossils chattads en

Big Bend National Park, Texas, USA1 2

Lunghezza

5 m (16 ft)4

Autezza

2 m (6,6 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

uschè lung sco 5 chauns dal nas a la cuauschè lung sco 28 bananas ina suenter l'autrapudess currer 100 meters en 10 secundas (il pli spert uman dovra 9,6)

Quant grond era Malefica 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)

Malefica 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

Malefica is known from just one partial left maxilla, which is the upper jaw bone. Even though it is fragmentary, scientists could identify it as a new species because the maxilla has many unique features.1 2

Malefica lived during the Campanian age of the Late Cretaceous, about 83 to 72 million years ago.3

Malefica was a non-saurolophid hadrosaurid, meaning it was an early offshoot of the duck-billed dinosaur family that did not belong to the main group of hadrosaurs with solid or hollow crests.1

The fossil of Malefica was originally thought to belong to the dinosaur Kritosaurus, but later study showed it was a different animal.2

Malefica was named in 2023 by paleontologists Albert Prieto-Márquez and Jonathan R. Wagner.3 1

The specific name deckerti honors Frank Deckert, who found the specimen.2

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

?How big was Malefica?

Nobody knows for sure because only a partial upper jaw bone has been found. Scientists cannot estimate its full size from just that bone.2 5

?Is Malefica a dinosaur?

Yes, Malefica is a dinosaur. It is a hadrosaurid, which is a type of duck-billed dinosaur.2 5

?When did Malefica live?

Malefica lived during the Late Cretaceous Period, about 83 to 72 million years ago.2 5

Per experts da dinos

Num scientific: Malefica
Numnà da: Prieto-Márquez and Wagner 20235
Gruppa: Pichels d'anda
Famiglia / clada: Hadrosauridae5
Classificaziun: Ornithischia > Ornithopoda > Iguanodontia > Hadrosauridae5
Vegliadetgna da la crappa: 84 fin 72 milliuns onns (Campanian)5
Formaziuns da crap: Aguja5
Pajais: USA5
Chats da fossils: 1 en The Paleobiology Database5
Scuverta: The only known fossil of Malefica, a partial left maxilla, was found in Bruja Canyon in Big Bend National Park, Texas. It was first thought to be from the dinosaur Kritosaurus in 2002, but in 2023 scientists Albert Prieto-Márquez and Jonathan R. Wagner named it as a new genus and species, Malefica deckerti.1 2
Anc discutà: Because only a single jaw bone is known, scientists are not sure what the rest of Malefica's body looked like or exactly how big it was.1

Danunder che vegnan ils fatgs

A new ‘duck-billed’ dinosaur (Ornithischia: Hadrosauridae) from the upper Campanian of Texas points to a greater diversity of early hadrosaurid offshoots (sciencedirect.com)
Malefica (en.wikipedia.org)
PBDB Taxon (paleobiodb.org)
New Species of Duck-Billed Dinosaur Identified in Texas | Sci.News (sci.news)
Malefica in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): vegliadetgna, lieus, formaziuns da crap, classificaziun.

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