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Sarcolestes is one of the oldest known armoured dinosaurs from the Middle Jurassic.1
When it was first discovered, scientists thought Sarcolestes was a meat-eating dinosaur. Now we know it was a plant-eater.1
Its name means 'flesh robber' because the first scientist who studied it believed it was a predator.1
Sarcolestes lived alongside other Jurassic animals in the Oxford Clay sea, which was a shallow ocean at the time.3

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?What did Sarcolestes eat?
It was a plant-eater (herbivore). Scientists used to think it was a meat-eater, but now they know it ate plants.13
?How big was Sarcolestes?
Nobody knows for sure. The only fossil found is a partial jaw, so scientists cannot estimate its full size.1
?Is Sarcolestes a dinosaur?
Yes, it is a dinosaur. It is an armoured dinosaur called an ankylosaur.1
?Why is it called Sarcolestes?
Its name means 'flesh robber' in Greek. The first scientist who studied it thought it was a meat-eating predator, so he gave it that name.1
Shkatërruesi i miteve
Miti: Sarcolestes was a fierce meat-eater.
E vërteta: Sarcolestes was actually a plant-eating armoured dinosaur, not a predator.1
Për ekspertët e dinozaurëve
- Emri shkencor
- Sarcolestes
- Emërtuar nga
- Lydekker 18933
- Grupi
- Dinozaurët e blinduar
- Familja / klada
- Ankylosauria3
- Klasifikimi
- Ornithischia > Ankylosauria > Thyreophora3
- Mosha e shkëmbinjve
- 165 deri në 162 milionë vjet (Callovian)3
- Formacionet shkëmbore
- Oxford Clay3
- Vendet
- Mbretëria e Bashkuar3
- Gjetjet fosile
- 2 në The Paleobiology Database3
- Zbulimi
- Sarcolestes was named in 1893 by Richard Lydekker. The fossil was found by Alfred Nicholson Leeds in the Oxford Clay of England.1
- Ende i diskutueshëm
- Scientists are not sure whether Sarcolestes belongs to the nodosaurid family of armoured dinosaurs or to another group.21
Nga vijnë faktet
- Sarcolestes (en.wikipedia.org)
- Sarcolestes leedsi Lydekker, an ankylosaurian dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic of England - Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Monatshefte Jg. 1983 Heft 3, Schweizerbart science publishers (schweizerbart.de)
- Sarcolestes in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): mosha, vendet, formacionet shkëmbore, klasifikimi.
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