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E ne e le kgolo hakae?
E ne e phahame hakae?
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Dintlha tse monate
Hoplitosaurus was about 1.2 metres (4 feet) tall at the hips, about the height of a small pony.1
Its armor included tall spines on the shoulders and back, and small bony plates called ossicles filled the gaps.1
Unlike its relative Polacanthus, Hoplitosaurus did not have a solid shield of bone over its hips.1
The only known fossil was found in 1898 by geologist Nelson Horatio Darton near Buffalo Gap, South Dakota.12
At first, scientists thought it was a type of Stegosaurus, but later they gave it its own name.1
Hoplitosaurus lived during the Early Cretaceous period, about 130 million years ago.1

Dipotso tse botswang haholo ka Hoplitosaurus
?How big was Hoplitosaurus?
It was about 1.2 metres (4 feet) tall at the hips, roughly the height of a small pony. Its total length is not known from the partial skeleton.1
?What did Hoplitosaurus eat?
It was a plant-eater (herbivore) that ate low-growing plants. Its armor was its main defense against predators.1
Mosenyi wa ditshomo
Tshomo: Hoplitosaurus is just a copy of Polacanthus.
Nnete: Scientists now agree Hoplitosaurus is a valid, though poorly known, genus because its bones and armor are different from Polacanthus.1
Bakeng sa ditsebi tsa didinosaure
- Lebitso la saense
- Hoplitosaurus
- E rehilwe ke
- Lucas 19023
- Sehlopha
- Didinosaure tse nang le sesireletsi
- Lelapa / leloko
- Nodosauridae3
- Tlhophiso
- Ornithischia > Ankylosauria > Nodosauridae > Thyreophora3
- Dilemo tsa mafika
- dilemo tse dimilione tse 126 ho isa ho 113 (Barremian / Aptian)3
- Dibopeho tsa mafika
- Lakota, Cedar Mountain3
- Dinaha
- Amerika3
- Direkoto tsa difosili
- 2 ho The Paleobiology Database3
- Ho sibollwa
- The fossil was found in 1898 by Nelson Horatio Darton. Frederic Augustus Lucas first named it a new species of Stegosaurus in 1901, but soon gave it its own genus Hoplitosaurus in 1902.13
- E sa ntse e phehwa kgang
- Scientists are not sure exactly how Hoplitosaurus is related to other armored dinosaurs, because its fossils are so incomplete.1
Moo dintlha di tswang teng
- Hoplitosaurus (en.wikipedia.org)
- si.edu (si.edu)
- Hoplitosaurus in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): dilemo, dibaka, dibopeho tsa mafika, tlhophiso.
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