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Gyposaurus

名字的意思： “vulture lizard”1

吃：植物長脖子恐龍侏羅紀早期

Gyposaurus was an early long-necked dinosaur that lived during the Early Jurassic. It walked on two legs and ate plants. Some scientists think it might actually be a young Lufengosaurus.1 2

生存年代

201 到 175 百萬年前3

侏羅紀早期

化石發現地

South Africa and Yunnan Province, China1 2

最高速度

時速約 38 公里（24 英里）

跑步, 估計值

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)

Gyposaurus 時速約 38 公里 (24 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)

酷東西

趣味知識

The name Gyposaurus means 'vulture lizard' because scientists once thought early long-necked dinosaurs were meat-eaters.1

The first Gyposaurus fossils were found in South Africa and named by Robert Broom in 1911.1

Some scientists think the Chinese species 'Gyposaurus sinensis' is actually a young Lufengosaurus, not a separate dinosaur.2

The fossils of 'Gyposaurus sinensis' were found in the Lufeng Formation in Yunnan, China, in the same area as Lufengosaurus.2

The bones of 'Gyposaurus sinensis' show that the animals were not fully grown when they died, with unfused vertebrae.2

Gyposaurus lived during the Early Jurassic, about 196 to 189 million years ago.1

Gyposaurus 的 AI 繪圖 — 這是電腦根據科學家目前的知識，用 AI 畫出 Gyposaurus 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。

給恐龍專家

學名: Gyposaurus
命名者: Broom 19113
類群: 長脖子恐龍
科 / 演化支: Anchisauridae3
分類: Sauropodomorpha3
岩石的年代: 201 到 175 百萬年 (Hettangian / Toarcian)3
岩層: Lufeng, Zhenzhuchong3
國家: 中國3
化石紀錄: The Paleobiology Database 收錄 9 筆3
發現: Gyposaurus was named by Scottish doctor Robert Broom in 1911 from a partial skeleton found in South Africa. The Chinese species 'Gyposaurus sinensis' was named by Yang Zhongjian in 1941.1
仍有爭議: Scientists still debate whether 'Gyposaurus sinensis' is a valid species or just a young Lufengosaurus.2