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Meroktenos

Lebitso le bolela: “thigh beast”1
E jele: DimelaMelala e meleleleTriasiki ya Morao

Meroktenos was a long-necked plant-eater that lived in what is now Lesotho during the Late Triassic. It walked on four sturdy legs and had a very thick thighbone for its size.14

E phetse
dilemo tse dimilione tse 227 ho isa ho 201 tse fetileng4
Triasiki ya Morao
Difosili di fumanwe ho
Thabana Morena, Lesotho14
Bolelele
4 m (13 ft)1
Boima
300 kg (661 lb)3
Bophahamo
1.2 m (3.9 ft)
kakanyo
Lebelo le phahameng ka ho fetisisa
e ka bang 37 km/h (23 mph)
Ho matha, kakanyo

E phetse neng?

Triasiki
Jurasiki
Kretase
Dilemo tse dimilione tse 252 tse fetileng20114566, asteroiti

E ne e le kgolo hakae?

E ne e le telele hakae?

Meroktenos bolelele ba e ka bang 4 m (13 ft)Baesekele ya motho e moholo e ka bang 1.8 m (5.9 ft)Koloi e ka bang 4.5 m (15 ft)Tlou, phoofolo e kgolo ka ho fetisisa naheng kajeno e ka bang 6.5 m (21 ft)

E ne e phahame hakae?

Katse ya lapenge ka bang 0.3 m (1 ft)Ntjae ka bang 0.5 m (1.6 ft)Meroktenosbophahamo ba e ka bang 1.2 m (3.9 ft)Peree ka bang 1.6 m (5.2 ft)

kakanyo

E ne e le boima hakae?

boima jwaloka dintja tse 15
telele jwaloka dintja tse 4 ho tloha nkong ho isa mohatlengtelele jwaloka dibanana tse 22 di behilwe ka molaboima jwaloka mahapu a 60boima jwaloka bana ba kereshe ba 16boima jwaloka bana ba sekolo ba 9e ne e ka matha dimitara tse 100 ka metsotswana e 9.7 (motho ya lebelo ka ho fetisisa o hloka 9,6)

Meroktenos e ne e le kgolo hakae ha e bapiswa le WENA?

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E ne e le lebelo hakae?

dintho tse monate

Dintlha tse monate

1

Meroktenos had a very wide and thick thighbone, a shape that was previously only seen in giant sauropods. Scientists think this helped support its heavy body.1

2

The name Meroktenos comes from Greek words meaning 'thigh' and 'beast', because its thighbone is so unusual.1

3

Meroktenos lived about 216 to 201 million years ago, during the Late Triassic period.14

4

The first fossils of Meroktenos were found in 1959 by a team of geologists and paleontologists near the village of Thabana Morena in Lesotho.1

5

Meroktenos was originally thought to be a species of Melanorosaurus, but in 2016 scientists gave it its own genus.12

6

The thighbone of Meroktenos is about 48 centimeters long, which suggests the whole animal was around 4 meters in length.1

E entswe ke AISetshwantsho sa Meroktenos se entsweng ke AI
Setshwantsho se entsweng ke AI, se bontshang kamoo Meroktenos e ka beng e ne e shebahala kateng, se entswe ke khomphutha ho ya ka seo bo-ramahlale ba se tsebang. Ke ho hakanya feela: phoofolo ya nnete e ka nna ya ba e ne e shebahala ka tsela e nngwe, mme ha ho motho ya tsebang mebala ya yona ya nnete.
o botsitse

Dipotso tse botswang haholo ka Meroktenos

?How big was Meroktenos?

About 4 metres (13 feet) long. Its thighbone is about 48 centimetres long.1

?What did Meroktenos eat?

It was a plant-eater. It ate plants like ferns and cycads.1

?When did Meroktenos live?

It lived during the Late Triassic period, about 216 to 201 million years ago.1

Bakeng sa ditsebi tsa didinosaure

Lebitso la saense
Meroktenos
E rehilwe ke
Peyre de Fabrègues and Allain 20164
Sehlopha
Melala e melelele
Lelapa / leloko
Sauropodiformes4
Tlhophiso
Sauropodomorpha4
Dilemo tsa mafika
dilemo tse dimilione tse 227 ho isa ho 201 (Norian / Rhaetian)4
Dibopeho tsa mafika
Elliot4
Dinaha
Lesotho4
Direkoto tsa difosili
1 ho The Paleobiology Database4
Ho sibollwa
In 1959, François Ellenberger, Paul Ellenberger, Jean Fabre and Leonard Ginsburg discovered the first fossils near Thabana Morena, Lesotho. In 1993, François-Xavier Gauffre named it Melanorosaurus thabanensis, but in 2016 Claire Peyre de Fabrègues and Ronan Allain gave it its own genus, Meroktenos.12
E sa ntse e phehwa kgang
Scientists are not sure why Meroktenos had such a wide thighbone. It was not a giant dinosaur, so the thick bone may have had a different purpose.1

Moo dintlha di tswang teng

  1. Meroktenos (en.wikipedia.org)
  2. New material and revision of Melanorosaurus thabanensis , a basal sauropodomorph from the Upper Triassic of Lesotho (pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
  3. Meroktenos thabanensis | Dinosaur Database by DinoAnimals.com (dinoanimals.com)
  4. Meroktenos in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): dilemo, dibaka, dibopeho tsa mafika, tlhophiso.

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