Iani
Iani was a plant-eating dinosaur that lived about 99 million years ago in what is now Utah. It had a powerful jaw with teeth perfect for chewing tough plants, and it might have been one of the last of its kind before duckbill dinosaurs took over.1
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Iani is named after Janus, the Roman god of change, because it lived during a time when Earth's climate was warming and dinosaur populations were shifting.1
The only known skeleton of Iani is from a juvenile and includes a nearly complete skull, vertebrae, and parts of the arms and legs.1
Iani belongs to a group of dinosaurs called rhabdodontomorphs, which were mostly known from Europe before this discovery.1
During Iani's time, giant sauropods were disappearing from North America, and new dinosaurs like early duckbills and tyrannosaurs were arriving from Asia.1
Scientists think Iani might have been one of the last survivors of a dinosaur lineage that was eventually replaced by duckbill dinosaurs.1

Ibibazo bibazwa cyane kuri Iani
?How big was Iani?
Iani was about 3 metres (10 feet) long, about the size of a small car. It was a plant-eater that stood on two legs.3
?What did Iani eat?
Iani was a vegetarian. It had a powerful jaw and teeth with many ridges to chew through tough plant material.34
Ku bazobereye muri dinozore
- Izina rya siyansi
- Iani
- Yiswe na
- Zanno et al. 20235
- Itsinda
- Izirya ibimera zifite umunwa w'inyoni
- Umuryango / ishami
- Tenontosauridae5
- Ishyirwa mu byiciro
- Ornithischia > Ornithopoda > Iguanodontia5
- Imyaka y'amabuye
- imyaka miliyoni 100 kugeza 94 (Cenomanian)5
- Inzego z'amabuye
- Cedar Mountain5
- Ibihugu
- Amerika5
- Ibisigazwa byanditswe
- 1 muri The Paleobiology Database5
- Ivumburwa
- The only known specimen of Iani was discovered in 2014 in Utah's Cedar Mountain Formation. It was named Iani smithi in 2023 by Lindsay Zanno and her team, with the species name honoring paleontologist Joshua Aaron Smith.21
- Biracyagibwaho impaka
- Scientists are still debating whether Iani is a rhabdodontomorph, a group of dinosaurs mostly found in Europe, which would mean this lineage survived longer in North America than previously thought.1
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- New Dino, ‘Iani,’ Was Face of a Changing Planet | NC State News (news.ncsu.edu)
- Iani (en.wikipedia.org)
- Dinosaurs: New vegetarian dinosaur discovered in Utah - BBC Newsround (bbc.co.uk)
- An early-diverging iguanodontian (Dinosauria: Rhabdodontomorpha) from the Late Cretaceous of North America | PLOS One (journals.plos.org)
- Iani in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): imyaka, ahantu, inzego z'amabuye, ishyirwa mu byiciro.
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