Zaraapelta

Zita rinoreva: “hedgehog shield”1 2

Raidya: MiriwoMadhino ane nhovoCretaceous Yekupedzisira

Zaraapelta was an armoured dinosaur that walked on four legs and munched on plants. It had a bumpy, spiky skull with fancy horns, making it look like a walking tank. It lived in the Gobi Desert during the Late Cretaceous, about 75 million years ago.1 2

Raivapo

makore mamiriyoni 100 kusvika 84 apfuura4

Cretaceous Yekupedzisira

Mafosiri akawanikwa:

Gobi Desert, near Hermiin Tsav, Mongolia1 2

Kumhanya kwepamusoro

kunenge 15 km/h (9 mph)

Kumhanya, fungidziro

Rairarama rini?

Triassic

Jurassic

Cretaceous

makore mamiriyoni 252 apfuura20114566, dombo guru rakabva mudenga

Raimhanya zvakadii?

Munhu achifamba kunenge 5 km/h (3 mph)

Mwana ari pabhasikoro kunenge 12 km/h (7 mph)

Zaraapelta kunenge 15 km/h (9 mph)

Bhiza richimhanya kunenge 65 km/h (40 mph)

Dindingwe kunenge 100 km/h (62 mph)

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Zaraapelta's skull was covered in bumpy armour plates called osteoderms, and it had an especially fancy pattern of bumps and grooves behind its eye.1 2

The horns on the back of its skull had a smooth ridge on top, which is different from any other ankylosaur.1 3

Scientists think the fancy skull ornaments might have been used to attract mates, like a peacock's tail feathers.2

Zaraapelta lived alongside two other ankylosaurs, Saichania and Tarchia, in the same desert.1 2

The only known fossil is a skull missing the snout tip, and it probably belonged to a young adult.1

The name Zaraapelta comes from the Mongolian word for hedgehog and the Greek word for small shield, because ankylosaurs looked prickly and armoured.1 2

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Mibvunzo inonyanya kubvunzwa nezve Zaraapelta

?How big was Zaraapelta?

The only known skull is about 40 centimetres long, so Zaraapelta was a medium-sized ankylosaur.1

?What did Zaraapelta eat?

It was a herbivore, eating plants.1

?Who discovered Zaraapelta?

It was discovered in 2000 by a team led by Phil Currie, and named in 2014 by Victoria Arbour.1 2

?What was Zaraapelta's closest relative?

Its closest known relative is Tarchia, another ankylosaur from Mongolia.1

Mubvisi wengano

Ngano: Some people think all armoured dinosaurs had tail clubs.

Chokwadi: Zaraapelta is known only from a skull, so scientists don't know if it had a tail club. Many ankylosaurs did, but not all.1

Zvevanyanzvi vemadhino

Zita resainzi: Zaraapelta
Akaripa zita:: Arbour et al. 20144
Boka: Madhino ane nhovo
Mhuri / boka: Ankylosauridae4
Kurongwa kwemhuka: Ornithischia > Ankylosauria > Ankylosauridae > Thyreophora4
Zera rematombo: makore mamiriyoni 100 kusvika 84 (Cenomanian / Santonian)4
Mapoka ematombo: Baynshire4
Nyika: Mongolia4
Zvinyorwa zvemafosiri: 1 mu The Paleobiology Database4
Kuwanikwa: The skull was found in 2000 by a team led by Phil Currie in the Gobi Desert. In 2014, Victoria Arbour, Philip Currie, and Demchig Badamgarav named it Zaraapelta nomadis.1 2
Zvichiri kupokanwa: Scientists are still debating exactly how Zaraapelta is related to other ankylosaurs, and whether its fancy head ornaments were for protection or for showing off.1 2

Kunobva chokwadi

Zaraapelta (en.wikipedia.org)
UAlberta paleontologists name new armoured dinosaur (ualberta.ca)
PBDB Taxon (paleobiodb.org)
Zaraapelta in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): zera, nzvimbo, mapoka ematombo, kurongwa kwemhuka.

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