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Ptychotherates

Lebitso le bolela: “fold hunter”1
E jele: NamaDidinosaure tsa peleTriasiki ya Morao

Ptychotherates was a meat-eating dinosaur that lived near the end of the Triassic Period. It had a very deep cheek bone, deeper than any other Triassic dinosaur. Only one skull has been found, but it tells us a lot about how early dinosaurs lived in what is now New Mexico, USA.1

E phetse
dilemo tse dimilione tse 206 ho isa ho 201 tse fetileng4
Triasiki ya Morao
Difosili di fumanwe ho
Ghost Ranch Quarry, northern New Mexico, USA41
Lebelo le phahameng ka ho fetisisa
e ka bang 47 km/h (29 mph)
Ho matha, kakanyo

E phetse neng?

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

E ne e le lebelo hakae?

dintho tse monate

Dintlha tse monate

1

Ptychotherates is known from only one partial skull, which was found in a block of rock collected in 1982 by the Carnegie Museum of Natural History.1

2

Its cheek bone (the jugal) is the deepest known for any Triassic dinosaur, meaning it was very tall from top to bottom.21

3

Ptychotherates lived alongside the famous dinosaur Coelophysis, which is known from thousands of skeletons at the same quarry.1

4

It belongs to a group of early meat-eating dinosaurs called Morphoraptora, which includes Tawa and Chindesaurus.21

5

The name Ptychotherates means 'fold hunter' because the skull bones were twisted and hard to put back together.1

6

This dinosaur lived about 205 to 201 million years ago, near the very end of the Triassic Period.4

7

Ptychotherates shows that some early dinosaur groups survived longer at low latitudes (near the equator) than they did elsewhere.2

E entswe ke AISetshwantsho sa Ptychotherates se entsweng ke AI
Setshwantsho se entsweng ke AI, se bontshang kamoo Ptychotherates 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 Ptychotherates

?How big was Ptychotherates?

Nobody knows for sure because only one partial skull has been found. The skull is about 29 mm tall at the cheek bone, but the full size of the dinosaur is unknown.1

?What did Ptychotherates eat?

It was a meat-eater. Its name means 'fold hunter' because of its carnivorous habits inferred from its teeth.31

?When did Ptychotherates live?

It lived near the end of the Triassic Period, about 205 to 201 million years ago, during the Norian or Rhaetian ages.3

?Where was Ptychotherates found?

It was discovered in the Coelophysis Quarry at Ghost Ranch, New Mexico, USA, in rocks of the Chinle Formation.3

?Why did Ptychotherates have a deep cheek bone?

Scientists are not sure why its cheek bone (jugal) was so deep, but it is the deepest known for any Triassic dinosaur. It may have been for strength or display.31

Bakeng sa ditsebi tsa didinosaure

Lebitso la saense
Ptychotherates
E rehilwe ke
Srivastava and Nesbitt 20264
Sehlopha
Didinosaure tsa pele
Lelapa / leloko
Morphoraptora4
Dilemo tsa mafika
dilemo tse dimilione tse 206 ho isa ho 201 (Rhaetian)4
Dibopeho tsa mafika
Chinle4
Dinaha
Amerika4
Direkoto tsa difosili
1 ho The Paleobiology Database4
Ho sibollwa
Ptychotherates was named in 2026 by scientists S. Srivastava and S. J. Nesbitt. The only fossil, a partial skull, came from the Coelophysis Quarry at Ghost Ranch, New Mexico, and was collected by the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in 1982.41
E sa ntse e phehwa kgang
Scientists are not sure exactly how Ptychotherates is related to other early dinosaurs, because its skull has a mix of features from both herrerasaurians and neotheropods.1

Moo dintlha di tswang teng

  1. A new taxon of saurischian dinosaur from the Coelophysis Quarry of New Mexico, USA (Triassic: latest Norian or Rhaetian) highlights herrerasaurian diversity in the latest Triassic (dinodata.de)
  2. A new taxon of saurischian dinosaur from the Coelophysis Quarry of New Mexico, USA (Triassic: latest Norian or Rhaetian) highlights herrerasaurian diversity in the latest Triassic | NSF Public Access Repository (par.nsf.gov)
  3. Ptychotherates (en.wikipedia.org)
  4. Ptychotherates in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): dilemo, dibaka, dibopeho tsa mafika, tlhophiso.

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