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Europatitan

名字的意思： “European titan”1

吃：植物長脖子恐龍白堊紀早期

Europatitan was a giant, long-necked plant-eater that lived in what is now Spain about 124 million years ago. It was one of the biggest dinosaurs in Europe at the time, measuring longer than a tennis court!2

生存年代

126 到 120 百萬年前3

白堊紀早期

化石發現地

El Oterillo II, Burgos Province, Spain3 1

長度

20 到 21.4 m (66 到 70 ft)2

體重

22 公噸到 25 公噸 (48,500 到 55,100 lb)2

高度

5 m (16 ft)2

最高速度

時速約 11 公里（7 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？

牠有多重？

跟 4 頭大象一樣重

跟 5 台汽車排成一排一樣長跟 120 根香蕉頭尾相接一樣長跟 17 台汽車一樣重跟 5000 顆西瓜一樣重跟 31 整班小學生一樣重跟 56 隻北極熊一樣重高到能從 2 樓的窗戶往裡看能在 33 秒內跑完 100 公尺（最快的人類要 9.6 秒）

Europatitan 跟「你」比起來有多大？

只是在你的瀏覽器裡算算數學。什麼都不會被儲存或傳送出去。

牠有多快？

走路的人 時速約 5 公里 (3 mph)

Europatitan 時速約 11 公里 (7 mph)

騎腳踏車的小朋友 時速約 12 公里 (7 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

Europatitan is named after Europe and Clint Eastwood. The species name 'eastwoodi' honors the actor because the movie 'The Good, the Bad and the Ugly' was partly filmed near the dig site.1

Europatitan lived alongside another sauropod called Demandasaurus in the same ancient floodplain in Spain.1

Europatitan had air-filled bones (like a bird) and special hollows in its backbones that made its skeleton lighter for its huge size.1

This dinosaur had a long neck, but its neck bones had very small air holes (pleurocoels) compared to other sauropods.1

Scientists found Europatitan in a place called El Oterillo II, just 2.5 km from the village of Barbadillo del Mercado in northern Spain.1

Europatitan 的 AI 繪圖 — 這是電腦根據科學家目前的知識，用 AI 畫出 Europatitan 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 Europatitan 最常被問的問題

?How big was Europatitan?

Scientists estimate it was about 20 to 21.4 metres long and weighed 22 to 25 tonnes. That is longer than a tennis court.2

?What did Europatitan eat?

It was a plant-eater, or herbivore. It used its long neck to reach leaves high up in trees.3

?When did Europatitan live?

It lived about 124 to 120 million years ago, during the Early Cretaceous period.2

?Where was Europatitan found?

Its fossils were discovered in Spain, at a site called El Oterillo II near the village of Barbadillo del Mercado.2

迷思破解王

迷思： Europatitan might have lived in the water to support its heavy body.

真相： Europatitan was a land dinosaur with strong leg bones and air-filled bones, living on dry floodplains.1

給恐龍專家

學名: Europatitan
命名者: Torcida Fernández-Baldor et al. 20173
類群: 長脖子恐龍
科 / 演化支: Somphospondyli3
分類: Sauropodomorpha > Sauropoda > Macronaria3
岩石的年代: 126 到 120 百萬年 (Barremian / Aptian)3
岩層: Castrillo de la Reina3
國家: 西班牙3
化石紀錄: The Paleobiology Database 收錄 1 筆3
發現: Europatitan was named in 2017 by Spanish paleontologist Fidel Torcida Fernández-Baldor and his team. The fossils were dug up from the Castrillo de la Reina Formation in northern Spain in the 2000s.3 1
仍有爭議: Scientists are not sure if Europatitan is a direct relative of sauropods from Africa or if it is part of a relict European group.1