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Telmatosaurus

名字的意思： “swamp lizard”1 2

吃：植物有喙的草食恐龍白堊紀晚期

Telmatosaurus was a small duck-billed dinosaur that lived on an ancient island. It was about as long as a car and ate plants like shrubs and leaves. Because it lived on an island with limited food, it became smaller than its relatives.1 4

生存年代

84 到 66 百萬年前4

白堊紀晚期

化石發現地

Romania, France, and Spain4 2

長度

5 m (16 ft)1 2

體重

600 kg (1,300 lb)1

高度

1.5 m (4.9 ft)

估計值

最高速度

時速約 37 公里（23 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 30 隻狗一樣重

跟 5 隻狗從鼻子接到尾巴一樣長跟 28 根香蕉頭尾相接一樣長跟 120 顆西瓜一樣重跟 32 個幼兒園小朋友一樣重跟 19 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）

Telmatosaurus 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)

Telmatosaurus 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)

酷東西

趣味知識

Telmatosaurus is an example of insular dwarfism, meaning it became smaller because it lived on an island with fewer resources.1

The first Telmatosaurus skull was found by peasants in 1895 and given to Ilona Nopcsa, whose brother Ferenc later became a paleontologist and named the dinosaur.1

Telmatosaurus was originally named Limnosaurus, but that name was already used for a crocodilian, so it was changed to Telmatosaurus in 1903.1 4

Telmatosaurus lived during the Late Cretaceous period, about 70 to 66 million years ago, on an island called Hațeg Island in what is now Romania.1 4

The holotype skull of Telmatosaurus is stored at the Natural History Museum in London under the number NHMUK PV R 3386.1

Telmatosaurus is a basal hadrosauromorph, meaning it is an early relative of the larger duck-billed dinosaurs like Edmontosaurus.1

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

?How big was Telmatosaurus?

About 5 metres (16 ft) long and 600 kg (1,300 lb). That is roughly the length of a small car.1 2

?What did Telmatosaurus eat?

It ate plants. Telmatosaurus likely ate shrubs, leaves, herbaceous plants and seeds.1

?When did Telmatosaurus live?

Telmatosaurus lived during the Late Cretaceous period, about 84 to 66 million years ago.2

?Where was Telmatosaurus found?

Telmatosaurus fossils have been found in Romania, France and Spain. The first skull was found in Transylvania (Romania).1 2

?Why was Telmatosaurus so small?

Telmatosaurus was small because it lived on an island with limited food. This is called insular dwarfism.1 3

?Did Telmatosaurus have any diseases?

One young Telmatosaurus had a benign (non-cancerous) tumor called an ameloblastoma in its lower jaw. It is the first time this tumor has been found in a dinosaur.1

迷思破解王

迷思： Some people think Telmatosaurus was a large dinosaur like other hadrosaurs.

真相： Telmatosaurus was actually quite small, only about 5 meters long and 600 kilograms, due to living on an island with limited food.1

給恐龍專家

學名: Telmatosaurus
命名者: Nopcsa 19034
類群: 有喙的草食恐龍
科 / 演化支: Telmatosauridae4
分類: Ornithischia > Ornithopoda > Iguanodontia4
岩石的年代: 84 到 66 百萬年 (Campanian / Maastrichtian)4
岩層: Sînpetru, Densuș-Ciula, Sebeş4
國家: 羅馬尼亞, 法國4
化石紀錄: The Paleobiology Database 收錄 23 筆4
又名: Hecatasaurus, Limnosaurus （舊名稱現在也算作同一種動物）4
發現: Telmatosaurus was first named in 1899 by Ferenc Nopcsa as Limnosaurus, but he renamed it Telmatosaurus in 1903 because the original name was already taken. The first fossils were a skull and lower jaws found in Romania.1 4
仍有爭議: Scientists are not sure whether fragmentary hadrosauroid fossils from Spain, France, and Germany belong to Telmatosaurus or to other dinosaurs.1