恐龍卡第 1778 張，共 2 027 張

Texasetes

名字的意思： “Texas being”4

吃：植物甲龍類白堊紀早期

Texasetes was a slow, plant-eating dinosaur covered in tough armour plates. It lived in what is now Texas, USA, about 100 million years ago. It used its armoured body to protect itself from hungry predators.4

生存年代

106 到 100 百萬年前4

白堊紀早期

化石發現地

Texas, USA4

長度

3 到 5 m (9.8 到 16 ft)1

最高速度

時速約 18 公里（11 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？

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能在 20 秒內跑完 100 公尺（最快的人類要 9.6 秒）

Texasetes 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)

Texasetes 時速約 18 公里 (11 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

Texasetes lived about 106 to 100 million years ago, during the Albian age of the Cretaceous Period.4

Its fossils were found in the Pawpaw Formation, which was a shallow sea environment at the time.4

Texasetes was a type of nodosaurid, a group of armoured dinosaurs with spikes on their bodies.1

Scientists think Texasetes was a ground-dwelling animal that moved around on four legs.1

The name Texasetes means 'Texas being', because it was found in Texas.4

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

?How big was Texasetes?

About 3 metres (10 feet) long and weighed roughly 200 kilograms (440 pounds).2

?What did Texasetes eat?

It was a herbivore, meaning it ate plants.2

?Did Texasetes have a tail club?

No. Texasetes was a nodosaurid, so it had spikes on its body but no club on its tail.3

?Where was Texasetes found?

Its fossils were found in the Paw Paw Formation near Haslet, Tarrant County, Texas, USA.4 3

迷思破解王

迷思： Texasetes was a dinosaur that could fly.

真相： Texasetes was an armoured dinosaur that walked on land. It could not fly.4

給恐龍專家

學名: Texasetes
命名者: Coombs 19954
類群: 甲龍類
科 / 演化支: Nodosauridae4
分類: Ornithischia > Ankylosauria > Nodosauridae > Thyreophora4
岩石的年代: 106 到 100 百萬年 (Albian)4
岩層: Pawpaw4
國家: 美國4
化石紀錄: The Paleobiology Database 收錄 2 筆4
發現: Texasetes was named by Walter P. Coombs in 1995. The fossils were found at the Blue Mound nodosaur site in Texas, USA.4
仍有爭議: Scientists are not sure if Texasetes is the same as another armoured dinosaur called Pawpawsaurus, because some researchers think they might be the same animal.1