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Gualicho

Tur bi mooy: “named after the gualichu, a demon from local folklore”1
Lekkoon: YàppTiranosoor yiKretase bu jëkk

Gualicho was a medium-sized meat-eating dinosaur that lived in what is now Argentina. It had very short arms with only two fingers, a bit like a tiny T. rex! Scientists are still arguing about which group of theropods it belongs to.12

Dundoon
am na 110 ba 106 milyoŋ at4
Kretase bu jëkk
Fosil yu ñu gis ci
Río Negro Province, northern Patagonia, Argentina12
Guddaay
6 ba 7 m (20 ba 23 ft)1
Kawewaay
2,3 m (7,5 ft)
jortu
Gaawaay bi gën a kawe
lu tollu ci 34 km/h (21 mph)
Daw, jortu

Kañ la dundoon?

Triyaas
Jurasik
Kretase
Am na 252 milyoŋ at20114566, asteroyid bi

Naka la réyoon?

Naka la guddoon?

Gualicho lu tollu ci 7 m ci guddaay (23 ft)Weloy mag lu tollu ci 1,8 m (5,9 ft)Oto lu tollu ci 4,5 m (15 ft)Ñey, rab bi gën a mag ci suuf tey lu tollu ci 6,5 m (21 ft)

Naka la kawewoon?

Xajlu tollu ci 0,5 m (1,6 ft)Faslu tollu ci 1,6 m (5,2 ft)Gualicholu tollu ci 2,3 m ci kawewaay (7,5 ft)Ñeylu tollu ci 3,2 m (10 ft)

jortu

gudd ni 7 xaj, bakkan ba geengudd ni 39 banaana yu ñu topp-toppalemënoon na daw 100 meetar ci 11 segond (nit ki gën a gaaw dafay soxla 9,6)

Naka la Gualicho réyoon, bu ñu ko méngalee ak YAW?

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Naka la gaawoon?

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1

Gualicho had only two fingers on each hand. The third finger was reduced to a tiny splint of bone.12

2

Its arms were very short, similar to the arms of Tyrannosaurus rex. This is an example of convergent evolution.12

3

The fossil was discovered on February 13, 2007, by Akiko Shinya, a preparator from the Field Museum of Natural History.1

4

Gualicho lived about 106 million years ago during the Early Cretaceous period.1

5

The skeleton was found in the Huincul Formation, which also produced the giant sauropod Argentinosaurus and the huge predator Mapusaurus.2

6

Scientists are not sure if Gualicho is a type of allosauroid or a tyrannosauroid. Different studies place it in different groups.14

7

The name Gualicho comes from a demon in the folklore of the Tehuelche people of Patagonia.12

Def ak IANataalu Gualicho bu ñu def ak IA
Nataal bu IA def la, muy wone ni Gualicho mën a meloon, ordinatëer moo ko def ci li boroom xam-xam yi xam. Jortu kese la: rab bi ci dëgg mën na meloon neneen, te kenn xamul ay kulëëram yu dëgg.
yeen a laaj

Laaj yi ñu gën a laaj ci Gualicho

?How big was Gualicho?

About 6 to 7 metres long. It weighed around 450 kilograms, which is about as much as a large polar bear.13

?Did Gualicho have feathers?

Nobody knows for sure. No feathers were found with the fossil, and it is not closely related to known feathered dinosaurs.1

?What did Gualicho eat?

It was a meat-eater, like other theropod dinosaurs. It probably hunted smaller animals or scavenged.1

?Why did Gualicho have short arms?

Scientists are not sure. Its arms were very short with only two fingers, similar to T. rex, but this evolved separately.3

?Is Gualicho a dinosaur?

Yes, it is a theropod dinosaur. It lived about 106 million years ago in what is now Argentina.1

?Was Gualicho bigger than T. rex?

No, it was much smaller. Gualicho was about 6 to 7 metres long, while T. rex could reach over 12 metres.1

Ku tas léeb yu dul dëgg

Léeb: Gualicho is a small relative of Tyrannosaurus rex.

Dëgg: Gualicho is not a close relative of T. rex. It is probably an allosauroid, a different branch of meat-eating dinosaurs. Its two-fingered hands evolved separately.12

Ngir ñi xam dino lool

Turu xam-xam
Gualicho
Ku ko tudde
Apesteguia et al. 20164
Kurél
Tiranosoor yi
Njaboot / klad
Tyrannosauroidea4
Klasifikasiyoŋ
Theropoda > Tyrannosauroidea4
Màggaayu doj yi
110 ba 106 milyoŋ at (Albian)4
Formasiyoŋi doj
Huincul4
Réew yi
Arsantin4
Fosil yu ñu gis
1 ci The Paleobiology Database4
Gisees
The only known fossil of Gualicho was found in 2007 by Akiko Shinya at a site called Violante's field in Argentina. It was named and described in 2016 by Sebastián Apesteguía and colleagues.12
Ñu ngi koy werante ba tey
Scientists debate whether Gualicho is an allosauroid or a tyrannosauroid. Its exact place on the dinosaur family tree is still uncertain.14

Fa xibaar yi jóge

  1. Gualicho (en.wikipedia.org)
  2. An Unusual New Theropod with a Didactyl Manus from the Upper Cretaceous of Patagonia, Argentina (journals.plos.org)
  3. Newly-discovered dinosaur had “T. rex arms” that evolved independently - Field Museum (fieldmuseum.org)
  4. Gualicho in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): at, béréb yi, formasiyoŋi doj, klasifikasiyoŋ.

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