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Hypsirophus

名字的意思： “high roof”1

吃：植物劍龍類侏羅紀晚期到白堊紀晚期

Hypsirophus was a plated dinosaur that lived in the Late Jurassic period. It had tall back bones that gave it its name, and it munched on plants with its tiny teeth.1 2

生存年代

162 到 94 百萬年前5

侏羅紀晚期到白堊紀晚期

化石發現地

Colorado, USA1 5

長度

7.2 m (24 ft)3

體重

2.8 公噸 (6,200 lb)3

高度

2.1 m (6.9 ft)

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最高速度

時速約 15 公里（9 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

牠有多大？

牠有多長？

牠有多高？

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牠有多重？

跟 2 台汽車一樣重

跟 7 隻狗從鼻子接到尾巴一樣長跟 40 根香蕉頭尾相接一樣長跟 140 隻狗一樣重跟 560 顆西瓜一樣重跟 4 整班小學生一樣重跟 6 隻北極熊一樣重能在 24 秒內跑完 100 公尺（最快的人類要 9.6 秒）

Hypsirophus 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)

騎腳踏車的小朋友 時速約 12 公里 (7 mph)

Hypsirophus 時速約 15 公里 (9 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

Hypsirophus is known only from a few back bones, tail bones, and a rib fragment. That makes it one of the most incomplete stegosaurs.1

The name Hypsirophus means 'high roof' because the bones in its back were very tall.1

It was discovered during the 'Bone Wars', a fierce fossil-hunting rivalry between two scientists, Edward Drinker Cope and Othniel Charles Marsh.1

Cope, who named Hypsirophus, first thought it was a meat-eating dinosaur like Allosaurus. Later scientists realized it was a plant-eating stegosaur.1

Some scientists think Hypsirophus might be a valid dinosaur, while others consider it a nomen dubium (a doubtful name).1

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

?How big was Hypsirophus?

Nobody knows for sure, because only a few bones have been found. Its back bones were very tall, one being 47 centimetres (about 1.5 feet) high, but the full size is unknown.4

?What did Hypsirophus eat?

It was a plant-eater. Like other stegosaurs, it munched on plants with its tiny teeth.4

?Is Hypsirophus a valid dinosaur?

Some scientists think Hypsirophus is a valid, distinct stegosaur, while others consider it a nomen dubium (a doubtful name) or a synonym of Stegosaurus.4

?Where was Hypsirophus found?

Its fossils were discovered in Colorado, USA, at a site called Cope's Quarry 3 near Garden Park, in rocks of the Late Jurassic Morrison Formation.4

給恐龍專家

學名: Hypsirophus
命名者: Cope 18785
類群: 劍龍類
科 / 演化支: Stegosauridae5
分類: Ornithischia > Stegosauria > Thyreophora5
岩石的年代: 162 到 94 百萬年 (Oxfordian / Cenomanian)5
岩層: Morrison5
國家: 美國5
化石紀錄: The Paleobiology Database 收錄 86 筆5
發現: Hypsirophus was named by Edward Drinker Cope in 1878. The fossils were found by schoolteacher Oramel William Lucas at a site called Cope's Quarry 3 near Canon City, Colorado.1
仍有爭議: Scientists still debate whether Hypsirophus is a valid genus or just a synonym of Stegosaurus.1