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Shanag

名字的意思： “black-hatted dancer, after the Buddhist Tsam festival dancers”1

吃：肉迅猛龍類白堊紀早期

Shanag was a small, feathered raptor that lived in what is now Mongolia during the Early Cretaceous. It was a fast, meat-eating dinosaur with sharp teeth and claws.4 2

生存年代

143 到 100 百萬年前4

白堊紀早期

化石發現地

Öösh locality, Baykhangor, Mongolia4 2

長度

1.5 m (4.9 ft)3

體重

5 kg (11 lb)3

高度

0.54 m (1.8 ft)

估計值

最高速度

時速約 31 公里（19 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？

估計值

牠有多重？

跟 1 隻家貓一樣重

跟 3 隻家貓從鼻子接到尾巴一樣長跟 8 根香蕉頭尾相接一樣長大約跟一隻家貓一樣重跟 42 根香蕉一樣重能在 12 秒內跑完 100 公尺（最快的人類要 9.6 秒）

Shanag 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)

Shanag 時速約 31 公里 (19 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

Shanag is known from only a partial skull: a right maxilla (upper jaw bone), dentary (lower jaw bone), and part of the splenial (a jaw bone).2

It was a dromaeosaurid, meaning it was a close relative of famous raptors like Velociraptor and Deinonychus.2

Shanag had special air pockets inside its jawbone between the tooth sockets, called interalveolar pneumatic cavities.2

Unlike many other theropods, Shanag lacked a promaxillary fenestra, a small opening in the front of the snout.2

Shanag lived alongside Psittacosaurus, a small horned dinosaur, and large sauropods in the Öösh region.1

The fossils of Shanag were found in rocks that are about 130 million years old, from the Early Cretaceous period.1

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

?How big was Shanag?

Shanag was a small predator, about 1.5 metres (4.9 feet) long and weighing around 5 kilograms (11 pounds).3

?Did Shanag have feathers?

Yes, as a theropod, Shanag had hollow bones and feathers. Its feathers helped with climbing, thermoregulation, and stabilizing while on prey.3

?What did Shanag eat?

Shanag was a meat-eating dinosaur with sharp teeth and claws. It likely used its claws to grip and pin down prey, similar to modern birds of prey.3

?Is Shanag a dromaeosaurid?

It may be a dromaeosaurid, but some researchers are skeptical. It shows a mix of dromaeosaurid, troodontid, and basal avialan traits, so its exact classification is debated.3

給恐龍專家

學名: Shanag
命名者: Turner et al. 20074
類群: 迅猛龍類
科 / 演化支: Dromaeosauridae4
分類: Theropoda > Dromaeosauridae4
岩石的年代: 143 到 100 百萬年 (Berriasian / Albian)4
岩層: Öösh4
國家: 蒙古4
化石紀錄: The Paleobiology Database 收錄 1 筆4
發現: Shanag was named in 2007 by Alan H. Turner, Sunny H. Hwang, and Mark A. Norell. The only known fossil was found by a Mongolian Academy of Sciences,American Museum of Natural History expedition in 1999 at the Öösh locality in Mongolia.2 1
仍有爭議: Scientists are unsure about the exact size of Shanag because only a partial skull has been found.2