恐龍卡第 1889 張，共 2 027 張

Venenosaurus

名字的意思： “poison lizard”1

吃：植物長脖子恐龍白堊紀早期

Venenosaurus was a long-necked plant eater that stomped around Utah about 112 million years ago. It was a small sauropod, but still as long as a school bus and as heavy as a big elephant.1

生存年代

121 到 113 百萬年前3

白堊紀早期

化石發現地

Utah, USA, in the Cedar Mountain Formation1 3

長度

最多 12 m (39 ft)1

體重

最多 6 公噸 (13,200 lb)1

高度

3.05 到 3.96 m (10 到 13 ft)2

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？

牠有多重？

跟 4 台汽車一樣重

跟 2.5 台汽車排成一排一樣長跟 67 根香蕉頭尾相接一樣長大約跟一頭大象一樣重跟 1200 顆西瓜一樣重跟 8 整班小學生一樣重跟 13 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）

Venenosaurus 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)

Venenosaurus 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

Venenosaurus had very slender arm bones, even more slender than those of many other sauropods like Alamosaurus and Saltasaurus.1

Its name comes from the Poison Strip Member, the rock layer where it was found, and 'veneno' means poison in Latin.1

Scientists found bones of both an adult and a baby Venenosaurus at the same site, which helps them learn how these giants grew.1

Venenosaurus was closely related to Cedarosaurus, another sauropod from Utah, but its bones were a bit different.1

The first fossils were found in 1998 by a volunteer named Tony DiCroce, and the species name dicrocei honors him.1

Its tail vertebrae look like those of Aeolosaurus and Gondwanatitan, sauropods from South America, showing how widespread these dinosaurs were.1

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

?How big was Venenosaurus?

About 12 metres (39 feet) long. It weighed around 6 metric tons (6.6 short tons), about as heavy as a large elephant.1 2

?What did Venenosaurus eat?

It was a plant eater. Its long neck helped it reach high leaves and branches that other plant-eaters could not get to.2

?Why is it named Venenosaurus?

The name Venenosaurus means 'poison lizard' in Latin. It comes from the Poison Strip Member of the rock layer where its fossils were found, not because the dinosaur was poisonous.1 2

?When did Venenosaurus live?

Venenosaurus lived during the Early Cretaceous Period, about 125 to 113 million years ago.1 2

迷思破解王

迷思： Some people think all sauropods were gigantic, but Venenosaurus was relatively small.

真相： Venenosaurus was about 12 metres long and weighed about 6 metric tons, which is small for a sauropod.1

給恐龍專家

學名: Venenosaurus
命名者: Tidwell et al. 20013
類群: 長脖子恐龍
科 / 演化支: Brachiosauridae3
分類: Sauropodomorpha > Sauropoda > Macronaria3
岩石的年代: 121 到 113 百萬年 (Aptian)3
岩層: Cedar Mountain3
國家: 美國3
化石紀錄: The Paleobiology Database 收錄 1 筆3
發現: In 1998, volunteers from the Denver Museum of Natural History, including Tony DiCroce, found fossils at a site in Utah called Tony's Bone Bed. In 2001, Virginia Tidwell and colleagues named the new dinosaur Venenosaurus dicrocei.1
仍有爭議: Scientists are not sure if some fossils from Dalton Wells Quarry belong to Venenosaurus or to its close relative Cedarosaurus.1