Zaraapelta

Lebitso le bolela: “hedgehog shield”1 2

E jele: DimelaDidinosaure tse nang le sesireletsiKretase ya Morao

Zaraapelta was an armoured dinosaur that walked on four legs and munched on plants. It had a bumpy, spiky skull with fancy horns, making it look like a walking tank. It lived in the Gobi Desert during the Late Cretaceous, about 75 million years ago.1 2

E phetse

dilemo tse dimilione tse 100 ho isa ho 84 tse fetileng4

Kretase ya Morao

Difosili di fumanwe ho

Gobi Desert, near Hermiin Tsav, Mongolia1 2

Lebelo le phahameng ka ho fetisisa

e ka bang 15 km/h (9 mph)

Ho matha, kakanyo

E phetse neng?

Triasiki

Jurasiki

Kretase

Dilemo tse dimilione tse 252 tse fetileng20114566, asteroiti

E ne e le lebelo hakae?

Motho ya tsamayang ka maoto e ka bang 5 km/h (3 mph)

Ngwana a palame baesekele e ka bang 12 km/h (7 mph)

Zaraapelta e ka bang 15 km/h (9 mph)

Pere e mathang ka matla e ka bang 65 km/h (40 mph)

Lengau e ka bang 100 km/h (62 mph)

dintho tse monate

Dintlha tse monate

Zaraapelta's skull was covered in bumpy armour plates called osteoderms, and it had an especially fancy pattern of bumps and grooves behind its eye.1 2

The horns on the back of its skull had a smooth ridge on top, which is different from any other ankylosaur.1 3

Scientists think the fancy skull ornaments might have been used to attract mates, like a peacock's tail feathers.2

Zaraapelta lived alongside two other ankylosaurs, Saichania and Tarchia, in the same desert.1 2

The only known fossil is a skull missing the snout tip, and it probably belonged to a young adult.1

The name Zaraapelta comes from the Mongolian word for hedgehog and the Greek word for small shield, because ankylosaurs looked prickly and armoured.1 2

Setshwantsho sa Zaraapelta se entsweng ke AI — Setshwantsho se entsweng ke AI, se bontshang kamoo Zaraapelta 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 Zaraapelta

?How big was Zaraapelta?

The only known skull is about 40 centimetres long, so Zaraapelta was a medium-sized ankylosaur.1

?What did Zaraapelta eat?

It was a herbivore, eating plants.1

?Who discovered Zaraapelta?

It was discovered in 2000 by a team led by Phil Currie, and named in 2014 by Victoria Arbour.1 2

?What was Zaraapelta's closest relative?

Its closest known relative is Tarchia, another ankylosaur from Mongolia.1

Mosenyi wa ditshomo

Tshomo: Some people think all armoured dinosaurs had tail clubs.

Nnete: Zaraapelta is known only from a skull, so scientists don't know if it had a tail club. Many ankylosaurs did, but not all.1

Bakeng sa ditsebi tsa didinosaure

Lebitso la saense: Zaraapelta
E rehilwe ke: Arbour et al. 20144
Sehlopha: Didinosaure tse nang le sesireletsi
Lelapa / leloko: Ankylosauridae4
Tlhophiso: Ornithischia > Ankylosauria > Ankylosauridae > Thyreophora4
Dilemo tsa mafika: dilemo tse dimilione tse 100 ho isa ho 84 (Cenomanian / Santonian)4
Dibopeho tsa mafika: Baynshire4
Dinaha: Mongolia4
Direkoto tsa difosili: 1 ho The Paleobiology Database4
Ho sibollwa: The skull was found in 2000 by a team led by Phil Currie in the Gobi Desert. In 2014, Victoria Arbour, Philip Currie, and Demchig Badamgarav named it Zaraapelta nomadis.1 2
E sa ntse e phehwa kgang: Scientists are still debating exactly how Zaraapelta is related to other ankylosaurs, and whether its fancy head ornaments were for protection or for showing off.1 2

Moo dintlha di tswang teng

Zaraapelta (en.wikipedia.org)
UAlberta paleontologists name new armoured dinosaur (ualberta.ca)
PBDB Taxon (paleobiodb.org)
Zaraapelta in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): dilemo, dibaka, dibopeho tsa mafika, tlhophiso.

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