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Charonosaurus

名字的意思： “Charon's lizard”1

吃：植物鴨嘴龍類白堊紀晚期

Charonosaurus was a huge duck-billed dinosaur that lived at the very end of the Cretaceous period in what is now China. It had a long, hollow crest on its head like its cousin Parasaurolophus, and it may have used that crest to make loud honking sounds.1

生存年代

72 到 66 百萬年前3

白堊紀晚期

化石發現地

Jiayin, Heilongjiang Province, northeastern China1 3

長度

10 m (33 ft)1

體重

5 公噸 (11,000 lb)1

高度

3.4 m (11 ft)

估計值

最高速度

時速約 21 公里（13 英里）

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牠生活在什麼時候？

三疊紀

侏羅紀

白堊紀

2 億 5200 萬年前20114566，小行星撞地球

牠有多大？

牠有多長？

牠有多高？

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牠有多重？

跟 3 台汽車一樣重

跟 2 台汽車排成一排一樣長跟 56 根香蕉頭尾相接一樣長大約跟一頭大象一樣重跟 1000 顆西瓜一樣重跟 6 整班小學生一樣重跟 11 隻北極熊一樣重能在 17 秒內跑完 100 公尺（最快的人類要 9.6 秒）

Charonosaurus 跟「你」比起來有多大？

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牠有多快？

走路的人 時速約 5 公里 (3 mph)

騎腳踏車的小朋友 時速約 12 公里 (7 mph)

Charonosaurus 時速約 21 公里 (13 mph)

一匹飛奔的馬 時速約 65 公里 (40 mph)

一隻獵豹 時速約 100 公里 (62 mph)

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趣味知識

Charonosaurus is one of the largest hadrosaurs known from Asia, reaching about 10 metres (33 feet) long and weighing around 5 metric tons (5.5 short tons).1

Its skull looks very similar to Parasaurolophus, so scientists think it also had a long, backward-pointing hollow crest on its head.1

Fossils of Charonosaurus were found in huge bone beds that contain many skeletons of both young and adult animals, suggesting they may have died together in a flood or river event.1

The bone beds are about 90% lambeosaurine fossils, and the rest are from ankylosaurs, theropods, turtles, and crocodiles.1

Teeth from meat-eating dinosaurs found in the same area show that predators like Tarbosaurus fed on Charonosaurus carcasses.1

Charonosaurus lived right at the end of the Cretaceous period, about 66 million years ago, and it was one of the last lambeosaurines to exist.1

Charonosaurus 的 AI 繪圖 — 這是電腦根據科學家目前的知識，用 AI 畫出 Charonosaurus 可能的樣子。這只是猜測：真正的動物可能長得不一樣，也沒有人知道牠真正的顏色。

你們都在問

關於 Charonosaurus 最常被問的問題

?How big was Charonosaurus?

Charonosaurus was about 10 metres (33 feet) long and weighed around 5 metric tons (5.5 short tons). That's as long as a school bus and as heavy as a large elephant.1

?Did Charonosaurus have a crest?

Yes, scientists think Charonosaurus had a long, backward-pointing hollow crest on its head, similar to its cousin Parasaurolophus. The crest was probably used for making loud honking sounds to communicate.1

?What did Charonosaurus eat?

Charonosaurus was a herbivore, meaning it ate plants. It likely fed on tough vegetation like conifers, ferns, and horsetails, using its many teeth to chew.2

?When did Charonosaurus live?

Charonosaurus lived at the very end of the Cretaceous period, about 66 million years ago. It was one of the last lambeosaurine dinosaurs to exist.1

?Where was Charonosaurus found?

Charonosaurus fossils were found in the Yuliangze Formation in northeastern China, on the south bank of the Amur River near the village of Jiayin.1

?Did Charonosaurus live with other dinosaurs?

Yes, Charonosaurus lived alongside the tyrannosaur Tarbosaurus, other hadrosaurs like Amurosaurus, ankylosaurs, turtles, and crocodiles. Predators like Tarbosaurus may have hunted or scavenged Charonosaurus.1

給恐龍專家

學名: Charonosaurus
命名者: Godefroit et al. 20003
類群: 鴨嘴龍類
科 / 演化支: Hadrosauridae3
分類: Ornithischia > Ornithopoda > Iguanodontia > Hadrosauridae3
岩石的年代: 72 到 66 百萬年 (Maastrichtian)3
岩層: Yuliangzi3
國家: 中國3
化石紀錄: The Paleobiology Database 收錄 1 筆3
發現: The first fossils were found in the Yuliangze Formation of China starting in 1975. In 2000, paleontologists Pascal Godefroit, Shuqin Zan, and Liyong Jin named the species Charonosaurus jiayinensis based on a partial skull.1
仍有爭議: Scientists are not sure exactly what the hollow crest on its head looked like, because only the base of the crest is preserved in the fossils.1