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Indosuchus

名字的意思： “Indian crocodile”1

吃：肉肉食恐龍白堊紀晚期

Indosuchus was a meat-eating dinosaur that lived in India near the end of the Age of Dinosaurs. It walked on two strong legs and had a flat, crested skull. It was about as long as a big car!1 2

生存年代

72 到 66 百萬年前5

白堊紀晚期

化石發現地

Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, India (Lameta Formation)1 5

長度

7 m (23 ft)1 2

體重

1.2 公噸 (2,600 lb)1

高度

1.98 m (6.5 ft)3

最高速度

時速約 35 公里（22 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？

牠有多重？

跟 60 隻狗一樣重

跟 7 隻狗從鼻子接到尾巴一樣長跟 39 根香蕉頭尾相接一樣長跟 240 顆西瓜一樣重跟 63 個幼兒園小朋友一樣重跟 38 個小學生一樣重跟 2.5 隻北極熊一樣重能在 10 秒內跑完 100 公尺（最快的人類要 9.6 秒）

Indosuchus 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)

Indosuchus 時速約 35 公里 (22 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

Indosuchus is known only from a few skull bones, so scientists are still learning about it.1

Its name means 'Indian crocodile', even though it was a dinosaur, not a crocodile.1

Indosuchus lived about 70 to 66 million years ago, right before the dinosaurs went extinct.1 2

At first, scientists thought Indosuchus was related to Allosaurus or Tyrannosaurus, but now they know it was an abelisaurid.1

Indosuchus had a crested skull that was flattened on top, which helped tell it apart from other dinosaurs.1

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

?How big was Indosuchus?

Indosuchus was about 7 metres (23 feet) long and weighed about 1.2 tonnes (1.3 short tons). That is about as long as a large car.4 2

?What did Indosuchus eat?

Indosuchus was a carnivore, so it ate meat. It probably hunted other dinosaurs or scavenged for food.4 2

?When did Indosuchus live?

Indosuchus lived during the Late Cretaceous Period, about 70 to 66 million years ago, right before the dinosaurs went extinct.4 2

?Where was Indosuchus found?

Indosuchus fossils were found in India, near Jabalpur in Madhya Pradesh, in rocks of the Lameta Formation.4 2

?Why is it called Indosuchus?

Its name means 'Indian crocodile' in Greek, because it was found in India and its skull reminded scientists of a crocodile. But it was a dinosaur, not a crocodile.4 2

?Did Indosuchus have feathers?

Nobody knows for sure. No feathers have been found with Indosuchus fossils, and since it was an abelisaurid, it might have had scales like other abelisaurids.4

迷思破解王

迷思： Indosuchus was a crocodile because its name means 'Indian crocodile'.

真相： Indosuchus was a dinosaur, not a crocodile. The name just refers to its crocodile-like snout.1

給恐龍專家

學名: Indosuchus
命名者: Huene 19335
類群: 肉食恐龍
科 / 演化支: Abelisauridae5
分類: Theropoda > Ceratosauria > Abelisauridae5
岩石的年代: 72 到 66 百萬年 (Maastrichtian)5
岩層: Lameta5
國家: 印度5
化石紀錄: The Paleobiology Database 收錄 1 筆5
發現: Indosuchus was named by German paleontologist Friedrich von Huene in 1932, and described by Huene and Charles Alfred Matley in 1933 from three partial skulls found near Jabalpur, India.1
仍有爭議: Scientists still debate exactly how Indosuchus is related to other abelisaurids, because only a few skull bones have been found.1