恐龍卡第 1168 張，共 2 027 張

Meroktenos

名字的意思： “thigh beast”1

吃：植物長脖子恐龍三疊紀晚期

Meroktenos was a long-necked plant-eater that lived in what is now Lesotho during the Late Triassic. It walked on four sturdy legs and had a very thick thighbone for its size.1 4

生存年代

227 到 201 百萬年前4

三疊紀晚期

化石發現地

Thabana Morena, Lesotho1 4

長度

4 m (13 ft)1

體重

300 kg (661 lb)3

高度

1.2 m (3.9 ft)

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最高速度

時速約 37 公里（23 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 15 隻狗一樣重

跟 4 隻狗從鼻子接到尾巴一樣長跟 22 根香蕉頭尾相接一樣長跟 60 顆西瓜一樣重跟 16 個幼兒園小朋友一樣重跟 9 個小學生一樣重能在 9.7 秒內跑完 100 公尺（最快的人類要 9.6 秒）

Meroktenos 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)

Meroktenos 時速約 37 公里 (23 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

Meroktenos had a very wide and thick thighbone, a shape that was previously only seen in giant sauropods. Scientists think this helped support its heavy body.1

The name Meroktenos comes from Greek words meaning 'thigh' and 'beast', because its thighbone is so unusual.1

Meroktenos lived about 216 to 201 million years ago, during the Late Triassic period.1 4

The first fossils of Meroktenos were found in 1959 by a team of geologists and paleontologists near the village of Thabana Morena in Lesotho.1

Meroktenos was originally thought to be a species of Melanorosaurus, but in 2016 scientists gave it its own genus.1 2

The thighbone of Meroktenos is about 48 centimeters long, which suggests the whole animal was around 4 meters in length.1

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

?How big was Meroktenos?

About 4 metres (13 feet) long. Its thighbone is about 48 centimetres long.1

?What did Meroktenos eat?

It was a plant-eater. It ate plants like ferns and cycads.1

?When did Meroktenos live?

It lived during the Late Triassic period, about 216 to 201 million years ago.1

給恐龍專家

學名: Meroktenos
命名者: Peyre de Fabrègues and Allain 20164
類群: 長脖子恐龍
科 / 演化支: Sauropodiformes4
分類: Sauropodomorpha4
岩石的年代: 227 到 201 百萬年 (Norian / Rhaetian)4
岩層: Elliot4
國家: 賴索托4
化石紀錄: The Paleobiology Database 收錄 1 筆4
發現: In 1959, François Ellenberger, Paul Ellenberger, Jean Fabre and Leonard Ginsburg discovered the first fossils near Thabana Morena, Lesotho. In 1993, François-Xavier Gauffre named it Melanorosaurus thabanensis, but in 2016 Claire Peyre de Fabrègues and Ronan Allain gave it its own genus, Meroktenos.1 2
仍有爭議: Scientists are not sure why Meroktenos had such a wide thighbone. It was not a giant dinosaur, so the thick bone may have had a different purpose.1