恐龍卡第 1872 張，共 2 027 張

Vahiny

名字的意思： “traveller”1

吃：植物長脖子恐龍白堊紀晚期

Vahiny was a long-necked plant-eater that lived in Madagascar near the end of the Age of Dinosaurs. It is known from just a few skull bones, so scientists are still learning about it.1

生存年代

72 到 66 百萬年前3

白堊紀晚期

化石發現地

Maevarano Formation, northwestern Madagascar1 3

長度

13.7 m (45 ft)2

體重

5.4 公噸 (11,900 lb)2

高度

3.3 m (11 ft)

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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？

牠有多高？

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牠有多重？

跟 4 台汽車一樣重

跟 3 台汽車排成一排一樣長跟 76 根香蕉頭尾相接一樣長大約跟一頭大象一樣重跟 1100 顆西瓜一樣重跟 7 整班小學生一樣重跟 12 隻北極熊一樣重能在 20 秒內跑完 100 公尺（最快的人類要 9.6 秒）

Vahiny 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)

Vahiny 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

Vahiny is only known from a partial braincase, which is the part of the skull that holds the brain.1

Its name means 'traveller' in the Malagasy language of Madagascar.1

Vahiny lived alongside another titanosaur called Rapetosaurus, which was much more common.1

The braincase of Vahiny looks most like that of Jainosaurus, a titanosaur from India.1

Vahiny shared its home with the meat-eating dinosaurs Majungasaurus and Masiakasaurus.1

The area where Vahiny lived was a coastal floodplain with wet and dry seasons.1

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

?What does Vahiny mean?

It means 'traveller' in the Malagasy language of Madagascar.1

?What did Vahiny eat?

Vahiny was a herbivore, so it ate plants. It used its long neck to browse on vegetation like conifers, cycads, and early flowering plants.1

?When did Vahiny live?

Vahiny lived during the Late Cretaceous, near the end of the Age of Dinosaurs, about 70 to 66 million years ago.1

?Was Vahiny a dinosaur?

Yes, Vahiny was a titanosaur sauropod dinosaur, a long-necked plant-eater.1 3

給恐龍專家

學名: Vahiny
命名者: Curry Rogers and Wilson 20143
類群: 長脖子恐龍
科 / 演化支: Lithostrotia3
分類: Sauropodomorpha > Sauropoda > Titanosauria > Macronaria3
岩石的年代: 72 到 66 百萬年 (Maastrichtian)3
岩層: Maevarano3
國家: 馬達加斯加3
化石紀錄: The Paleobiology Database 收錄 2 筆3
發現: Vahiny was named in 2014 by Kristina Curry Rogers and Jeffrey A. Wilson based on a partial braincase found in the Maevarano Formation of Madagascar.1 3
仍有爭議: Scientists are not sure exactly how big Vahiny was, because only a few skull bones have been found.1