Saurolophus
Saurolophus was a big, plant-eating dinosaur with a duck-like beak and a pointy crest on its head. It lived near the end of the Age of Dinosaurs in North America and Asia, and could walk on two legs or all fours.1
E phetse neng?
E ne e le kgolo hakae?
E ne e le telele hakae?
E ne e phahame hakae?
E ne e le boima hakae?
telele jwaloka dikoloi tse 2.5 tse pakilweng ka mola๐telele jwaloka dibanana tse 67 di behilwe ka mola
e batla e le boima jwaloka tlou๐boima jwaloka mahapu a 1000๐boima jwaloka ditlelase tse feletseng tse 6 tsa bana ba sekolo๐ปโโ๏ธboima jwaloka dibere tse tshweu tse 11๐e ne e ka matha dimitara tse 100 ka metsotswana e 15 (motho ya lebelo ka ho fetisisa o hloka 9,6)Saurolophus 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
Saurolophus is one of the few dinosaurs known from both North America and Asia, which suggests they could cross land bridges.1
The first nearly complete dinosaur skeleton ever found in Canada was a Saurolophus, discovered in 1911.1
A huge bonebed in Mongolia called Dragon's Tomb contains at least 21 Saurolophus individuals, showing they lived in groups.1
Its teeth were packed into dental batteries, with hundreds of teeth that were constantly replaced, so it could chew tough plants.1
Saurolophus could reach food up to about 4 meters (13 feet) above the ground, thanks to its long neck and body.1
The crest on its head was a solid spike, not a hollow tube like in some other duck-billed dinosaurs.1

Dipotso tse botswang haholo ka Saurolophus
?How big was Saurolophus?
Saurolophus osborni was about 8.2 to 8.5 meters (27 to 28 feet) long, while the larger Mongolian species S. angustirostris reached about 12 to 13 meters (39 to 43 feet) long and weighed up to 11 tonnes (12 short tons).12
?What did Saurolophus eat?
Saurolophus was a herbivore, eating plants like conifer needles, twigs, and seeds. It had a toothless beak and hundreds of cheek teeth for grinding tough plant material.13
?Did Saurolophus have a crest?
Yes, Saurolophus had a distinctive spike-like crest on its head, made of nasal bones, which pointed up and back. It may have been used for display or heat regulation.1
?Could Saurolophus swim?
The sources do not say Saurolophus could swim. It was a land dinosaur that could walk on two legs or all fours, but no swimming adaptations are mentioned.13
?When did Saurolophus live?
Saurolophus lived during the Late Cretaceous, about 71.5 to 66 million years ago.12
?Where was Saurolophus found?
Saurolophus fossils have been found in North America (Canada, USA) and Asia (Mongolia, China). It is one of the few dinosaurs known from multiple continents.12
?Was Saurolophus a dinosaur?
Yes, Saurolophus was a dinosaur, specifically a hadrosaurid (duck-billed) dinosaur. It was an ornithopod, a plant-eating dinosaur.12
?Did Saurolophus live in herds?
Yes, evidence from a bonebed called Dragon's Tomb in Mongolia suggests Saurolophus lived in groups, with at least 21 individuals found together.1
Mosenyi wa ditshomo
Tshomo: Some people think Saurolophus could swim in the ocean.
Nnete: It lived near rivers and lakes, but it was a land animal that walked and ate plants on land.1
Bakeng sa ditsebi tsa didinosaure
- Lebitso la saense
- Saurolophus
- E rehilwe ke
- Brown 19124
- Sehlopha
- Melomo ya letata
- Lelapa / leloko
- Hadrosauridae4
- Tlhophiso
- Ornithischia > Ornithopoda > Iguanodontia > Hadrosauridae4
- Dilemo tsa mafika
- dilemo tse dimilione tse 84 ho isa ho 66 (Campanian / Maastrichtian)4
- Dibopeho tsa mafika
- Nemegt, Horseshoe Canyon, Almond4
- Dinaha
- Mongolia, Kanada, Amerika4
- Direkoto tsa difosili
- 38 ho The Paleobiology Database4
- Ho sibollwa
- Barnum Brown named Saurolophus in 1912 from a nearly complete skeleton found in Alberta, Canada, in 1911.1
- E sa ntse e phehwa kgang
- Scientists still debate whether some fossils from California and Wyoming belong to Saurolophus or to a separate genus.1
Moo dintlha di tswang teng
- Saurolophus (en.wikipedia.org)
- Saurolophus | Natural History Museum (nhm.ac.uk)
- Saurolophus- Enchanted Learning Software (web.archive.org)
- Saurolophus in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): dilemo, dibaka, dibopeho tsa mafika, tlhophiso.
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