恐龍卡第 1907 張，共 2 027 張

Wamweracaudia

名字的意思： “Wamwera tail”1

吃：植物長脖子恐龍侏羅紀晚期到白堊紀早期

Wamweracaudia was a huge, long-necked plant-eating dinosaur that lived in what is now Africa. It walked on four legs and had a very long tail made of many bones.1 4

生存年代

149 到 143 百萬年前4

侏羅紀晚期到白堊紀早期

化石發現地

Tendaguru Formation, Tanzania, Africa1 4

長度

10 到 100 m (33 到 328 ft)2

體重

7 公噸 (15,400 lb)3

最高速度

時速約 17 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？

牠有多重？

跟 5 台汽車一樣重

跟 22 台汽車排成一排一樣長跟 560 根香蕉頭尾相接一樣長大約跟一頭大象一樣重跟 1400 顆西瓜一樣重跟 9 整班小學生一樣重跟 16 隻北極熊一樣重能在 21 秒內跑完 100 公尺（最快的人類要 9.6 秒）

Wamweracaudia 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)

Wamweracaudia 時速約 17 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)

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趣味知識

Wamweracaudia is known from a nearly complete series of thirty tail vertebrae, plus two chevrons and two neural spines.1

Its tail bones were procoelous, meaning they had a hollow at the front and a ball at the back, which made the tail flexible and strong.1

It was a close relative of Mamenchisaurus, a famous long-necked dinosaur from Asia, and scientists think it may be the first mamenchisaurid found outside Asia.1

The fossils were first dug up between 1909 and 1912 by German expeditions, but they were not given their own name until 2019.1

The name honors the Wamwera people who live near the find site, and the specific name keranjei honors Mohammadi Keranje, the foreman who led the excavation team.1

Wamweracaudia lived during the Late Jurassic, about 155 to 145 million years ago.1

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

?What did Wamweracaudia eat?

Wamweracaudia was a herbivore, meaning it ate plants. As a sauropod, it was a large quadrupedal herbivore.1

?When did Wamweracaudia live?

Wamweracaudia lived during the Late Jurassic, about 155 to 145 million years ago.1

?How big was Wamweracaudia?

Scientists don't know exactly, but it was a large sauropod. It is known from a nearly complete series of thirty tail vertebrae, which suggests a long tail.1

?Is Wamweracaudia related to Mamenchisaurus?

Yes, Wamweracaudia is a close relative of Mamenchisaurus. Scientists think it may be the first mamenchisaurid found outside Asia.1

迷思破解王

迷思： Some people think Wamweracaudia was a titanosaur, a type of giant sauropod.

真相： Scientists now think it was a mamenchisaurid, more closely related to Mamenchisaurus, because of its tail bone features.1

給恐龍專家

學名: Wamweracaudia
命名者: Mannion et al. 20194
類群: 長脖子恐龍
科 / 演化支: Mamenchisauridae4
分類: Sauropodomorpha > Sauropoda4
岩石的年代: 149 到 143 百萬年 (Tithonian)4
岩層: Tendaguru4
國家: 坦尚尼亞4
化石紀錄: The Paleobiology Database 收錄 2 筆4
發現: The tail was found during German expeditions to Tendaguru in Tanzania between 1909 and 1912, supervised by paleontologist Werner Janensch. It was named Wamweracaudia keranjei in 2019 by Philip Mannion and colleagues.1
仍有爭議: Scientists are still unsure about the exact size of Wamweracaudia because only tail bones have been found, and the PBDB gives a very broad length estimate.2