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Sauroplites

名字的意思： “saurian hoplite, meaning lizard armed foot soldier”1

吃：植物甲龍類白堊紀早期

Sauroplites was an armoured dinosaur that walked on four legs and ate plants. Its back and hips were covered with a shield made of bony plates, like a suit of armour. It lived in what is now Inner Mongolia, China, during the Early Cretaceous period.1 4

生存年代

121 到 113 百萬年前4

白堊紀早期

化石發現地

Inner Mongolia, China1 2

長度

5.5 m (18 ft)3

高度

1.6 m (5.2 ft)3

最高速度

時速約 16 公里（10 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？

跟 6 隻狗從鼻子接到尾巴一樣長跟 31 根香蕉頭尾相接一樣長能在 22 秒內跑完 100 公尺（最快的人類要 9.6 秒）

Sauroplites 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)

Sauroplites 時速約 16 公里 (10 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

Sauroplites had a special shield on its hips made of fused rosettes. Each rosette had one large central bony plate surrounded by a single ring of smaller plates. No other armoured dinosaur had this exact pattern.1 2

The largest bony plates on its back could be up to 40 centimetres (about 16 inches) long. The plates on its sides were about 30 centimetres (12 inches) across.1

The fossils of Sauroplites were discovered in 1930 by Swedish paleontologist Anders Birger Bohlin during an expedition in Inner Mongolia. The dinosaur was named and described by Bohlin in 1953.1

The original fossil bones of Sauroplites are lost today, but some casts (copies) are kept at the American Museum of Natural History in New York.1

For a long time, scientists thought Sauroplites might be a doubtful name because the fossils were so fragmentary. But in 2014, researcher Victoria Megan Arbour found a unique feature on the hip shield that proved it was a real, valid dinosaur.1

Sauroplites lived about 121 to 113 million years ago, during the Aptian stage of the Early Cretaceous. Its fossils were found in rocks of the Zhidan Group.1 2

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

?How big was Sauroplites?

Nobody knows for sure because the fossils are very fragmentary. The largest bony plates on its back could be up to 40 centimetres (about 16 inches) long, but no complete skeleton has been found to estimate its full size.1

?What did Sauroplites eat?

Sauroplites was an herbivore, meaning it ate plants. It had a plant-eating dinosaur's body and teeth suited for chewing vegetation.1

?Is Sauroplites a dinosaur?

Yes, Sauroplites is a dinosaur. It is an ankylosaurian dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous of China.1

給恐龍專家

學名: Sauroplites
命名者: Bohlin 19534
類群: 甲龍類
科 / 演化支: Nodosauridae4
分類: Ornithischia > Ankylosauria > Nodosauridae > Thyreophora4
岩石的年代: 121 到 113 百萬年 (Aptian)4
國家: 中國4
化石紀錄: The Paleobiology Database 收錄 1 筆4
發現: Swedish paleontologist Anders Birger Bohlin discovered the fossils of Sauroplites in 1930 near Tebch in Inner Mongolia, during the Swedish-Chinese expeditions of Sven Hedin. He named and described the dinosaur in 1953.1
仍有爭議: Scientists are not sure whether Sauroplites belonged to the Nodosauridae family or the Ankylosauridae family. Some studies place it with nodosaurids because of its hip shield, but nodosaurids are rare in Asia.1