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Meroktenos

Il num vul dir: “thigh beast”1

Mangiava: PlantasCuliezs lungsTriassic tardiv

Meroktenos was a long-necked plant-eater that lived in what is now Lesotho during the Late Triassic. It walked on four sturdy legs and had a very thick thighbone for its size.1 4

Viveva

avant 227 fin 201 milliuns onns4

Triassic tardiv

Fossils chattads en

Thabana Morena, Lesotho1 4

Lunghezza

4 m (13 ft)1

Paisa

300 kg (661 lb)3

Autezza

1,2 m (3,9 ft)

stima

Spertadad maximala

var 37 km/h (23 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 15 chauns

uschè lung sco 4 chauns dal nas a la cuauschè lung sco 22 bananas ina suenter l'autrauschè grev sco 60 melunasuschè grev sco 16 uffants da scolettauschè grev sco 9 scolarspudess currer 100 meters en 9,7 secundas (il pli spert uman dovra 9,6)

Quant grond era Meroktenos 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)

Meroktenos var 37 km/h (23 mph)

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

In gepard var 100 km/h (62 mph)

chaussas cool

Fatgs divertents

Meroktenos had a very wide and thick thighbone, a shape that was previously only seen in giant sauropods. Scientists think this helped support its heavy body.1

The name Meroktenos comes from Greek words meaning 'thigh' and 'beast', because its thighbone is so unusual.1

Meroktenos lived about 216 to 201 million years ago, during the Late Triassic period.1 4

The first fossils of Meroktenos were found in 1959 by a team of geologists and paleontologists near the village of Thabana Morena in Lesotho.1

Meroktenos was originally thought to be a species of Melanorosaurus, but in 2016 scientists gave it its own genus.1 2

The thighbone of Meroktenos is about 48 centimeters long, which suggests the whole animal was around 4 meters in length.1

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

?How big was Meroktenos?

About 4 metres (13 feet) long. Its thighbone is about 48 centimetres long.1

?What did Meroktenos eat?

It was a plant-eater. It ate plants like ferns and cycads.1

?When did Meroktenos live?

It lived during the Late Triassic period, about 216 to 201 million years ago.1

Per experts da dinos

Num scientific: Meroktenos
Numnà da: Peyre de Fabrègues and Allain 20164
Gruppa: Culiezs lungs
Famiglia / clada: Sauropodiformes4
Classificaziun: Sauropodomorpha4
Vegliadetgna da la crappa: 227 fin 201 milliuns onns (Norian / Rhaetian)4
Formaziuns da crap: Elliot4
Pajais: Lesotho4
Chats da fossils: 1 en The Paleobiology Database4
Scuverta: In 1959, François Ellenberger, Paul Ellenberger, Jean Fabre and Leonard Ginsburg discovered the first fossils near Thabana Morena, Lesotho. In 1993, François-Xavier Gauffre named it Melanorosaurus thabanensis, but in 2016 Claire Peyre de Fabrègues and Ronan Allain gave it its own genus, Meroktenos.1 2
Anc discutà: Scientists are not sure why Meroktenos had such a wide thighbone. It was not a giant dinosaur, so the thick bone may have had a different purpose.1

Danunder che vegnan ils fatgs

Meroktenos (en.wikipedia.org)
New material and revision of Melanorosaurus thabanensis , a basal sauropodomorph from the Upper Triassic of Lesotho (pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
Meroktenos thabanensis | Dinosaur Database by DinoAnimals.com (dinoanimals.com)
Meroktenos in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): vegliadetgna, lieus, formaziuns da crap, classificaziun.

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