Aletopelta
Aletopelta was an armoured dinosaur that lived near the coast of California about 75 million years ago. It was covered in bony plates and had a big shield of bone over its hips. After it died, its body floated out to sea and became a tiny reef on the ocean floor!1
E phetse neng?
E ne e le kgolo hakae?
E ne e le telele hakae?
E ne e phahame hakae?
kakanyo
E ne e le boima hakae?
telele jwaloka dintja tse 6 ho tloha nkong ho isa mohatlengπtelele jwaloka dibanana tse 33 di behilwe ka mola
boima jwaloka dintja tse 100πboima jwaloka mahapu a 400πboima jwaloka ditlelase tse feletseng tse 2.5 tsa bana ba sekoloπ»ββοΈboima jwaloka dibere tse tshweu tse 4πe ne e ka matha dimitara tse 100 ka metsotswana e 24 (motho ya lebelo ka ho fetisisa o hloka 9,6)Aletopelta e ne e le kgolo hakae ha e bapiswa le WENA?
Ke dipalo feela ho browser ya hao. Ha ho letho le bolokwang kapa le romelwang kae kapa kae.
E ne e le lebelo hakae?
Dintlha tse monate
Aletopelta's body was carried out to sea by a stream, and it sank upside down, becoming a mini reef where oysters and other sea creatures attached to its bones.1
Sharks like Squalicorax and Scapanorhynchus scavenged the dead dinosaur, leaving hollow bones and shallow pits in its armour plates.1
The name Aletopelta means 'wanderer shield' because the tectonic plate carrying its fossils drifted north from near Mexico to California over millions of years.1
Aletopelta had a pelvic shield made of many six-sided bony plates that were fused together.1
The only known skeleton of Aletopelta might be from a young animal, because some of its bones were not fully fused.1

Dipotso tse botswang haholo ka Aletopelta
?How big was Aletopelta?
About 5 metres (16 feet) long and weighed about 2 tonnes (4,409 lbs). Some scientists have estimated it at 6 metres (19.7 feet) long.1
?What did Aletopelta eat?
It was a plant-eater. It foraged for plants along the edges of rivers and estuaries.3
Bakeng sa ditsebi tsa didinosaure
- Lebitso la saense
- Aletopelta
- E rehilwe ke
- Ford and Kirkland 20015
- Sehlopha
- Didinosaure tse nang le sesireletsi
- Lelapa / leloko
- Ankylosauridae5
- Tlhophiso
- Ornithischia > Ankylosauria > Ankylosauridae > Thyreophora5
- Dilemo tsa mafika
- dilemo tse dimilione tse 84 ho isa ho 72 (Campanian)5
- Dibopeho tsa mafika
- Point Loma5
- Dinaha
- Amerika5
- Direkoto tsa difosili
- 1 ho The Paleobiology Database5
- Ho sibollwa
- In 1987, construction workers digging a sewage pipe near Carlsbad, California, uncovered the skeleton. It was first described in 1996 by Thomas DemΓ©rΓ© and Walter Coombs, and officially named Aletopelta coombsi in 2001 by Tracy Ford and James Kirkland.1
- E sa ntse e phehwa kgang
- Scientists still debate whether Aletopelta was an ankylosaurid or a nodosaurid, and some have even called it a nomen dubium (doubtful name) because its fossils are incomplete.12
Moo dintlha di tswang teng
- Aletopelta (en.wikipedia.org)
- PBDB Taxon (paleobiodb.org)
- The Nat | Ankylosaur (sdnhm.org)
- Ankylosaur Reef (smithsonianmag.com)
- Aletopelta in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): dilemo, dibaka, dibopeho tsa mafika, tlhophiso.
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