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Meroktenos

Leina le raya: “thigh beast”1
E jele: DimelaMelala-meleeleBofelo jwa Triassic

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 tshetse
dimilione tsa dingwaga di le 227 go ya go 201 tse di fetileng4
Bofelo jwa Triassic
Difosili di fitlhetswe kwa
Thabana Morena, Lesotho14
Boleele
4 m (13 ft)1
Bokete
300 kg (661 lb)3
Bogodimo
1.2 m (3.9 ft)
kakanyo
Bonako jo bogolo
e ka nna 37 km/h (23 mph)
Go taboga, kakanyo

E tshetse leng?

Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
dimilione tsa dingwaga di le 252 tse di fetileng20114566, asteroiti

E ne e le kgolo go le kae?

E ne e le telele go le kae?

Meroktenos e ka nna 4 m boleele (13 ft)Baesekele ya motho yo mogolo e ka nna 1.8 m (5.9 ft)Koloi e ka nna 4.5 m (15 ft)Tlou, phologolo e kgolo go gaisa tsotlhe mo lefatsheng gompieno e ka nna 6.5 m (21 ft)

E ne e le kwa godimo go le kae?

Katse ya mo gaee ka nna 0.3 m (1 ft)Ntšwae ka nna 0.5 m (1.6 ft)Meroktenose ka nna 1.2 m bogodimo (3.9 ft)Pitsee ka nna 1.6 m (5.2 ft)

kakanyo

E ne e le bokete go le kae?

bokete jaaka dintšwa di le 15
telele jaaka dintšwa di le 4 go tswa kwa nkong go ya kwa mogatlengtelele jaaka dibanana di le 22 di latelanabokete jaaka magapu a le 60bokete jaaka bana ba kreše ba le 16bokete jaaka bana ba sekolo ba le 9e ne e ka taboga dimetara di le 100 mo metsotswaneng e le 9.7 (motho yo o bonako go gaisa o tlhoka 9,6)

Meroktenos e ne e le kgolo go le kae fa e bapisiwa le WENA?

Ke dipalo fela mo sebatling sa gago. Ga go sepe se se bolokwang kgotsa se se romelwang gope.

E ne e le bonako go le kae?

dilo tse di monate

Dintlha tse di 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 dirilwe ke AISetshwantsho sa Meroktenos se se dirilweng ke AI
Setshwantsho se se dirilweng ke AI sa kafa Meroktenos e ka tswang e ne e lebega ka gone, se dirilwe ke khomputara go ya ka se borasaense ba se itseng. Ke kakanyo fela: phologolo ya nnete e ka tswa e ne e lebega ka tsela e sele, mme ga go ope yo o itseng mebala ya yona ya nnete.
o botsitse

Dipotso tse di botswang thata ka ga 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

Ya baitseanape ba didino

Leina la saense
Meroktenos
Leina le neilwe ke
Peyre de Fabrègues and Allain 20164
Setlhopha
Melala-meleele
Lelapa / clade
Sauropodiformes4
Thulaganyo
Sauropodomorpha4
Bogolo jwa matlapa
227 go ya go 201 dimilione tsa dingwaga (Norian / Rhaetian)4
Dibopego tsa matlapa
Elliot4
Dinaga
Lesotho4
Direkoto tsa difosili
1 mo The Paleobiology Database4
Go fitlhelwa
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
Go sa ntse go ganetsanwa
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

Kwa 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): dingwaga, mafelo, dibopego tsa matlapa, thulaganyo.

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