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Zaraapelta

名字的意思： “hedgehog shield”1 2

吃：植物甲龍類白堊紀晚期

Zaraapelta was an armoured dinosaur that walked on four legs and munched on plants. It had a bumpy, spiky skull with fancy horns, making it look like a walking tank. It lived in the Gobi Desert during the Late Cretaceous, about 75 million years ago.1 2

生存年代

100 到 84 百萬年前4

白堊紀晚期

化石發現地

Gobi Desert, near Hermiin Tsav, Mongolia1 2

最高速度

時速約 15 公里（9 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)

Zaraapelta 時速約 15 公里 (9 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

Zaraapelta's skull was covered in bumpy armour plates called osteoderms, and it had an especially fancy pattern of bumps and grooves behind its eye.1 2

The horns on the back of its skull had a smooth ridge on top, which is different from any other ankylosaur.1 3

Scientists think the fancy skull ornaments might have been used to attract mates, like a peacock's tail feathers.2

Zaraapelta lived alongside two other ankylosaurs, Saichania and Tarchia, in the same desert.1 2

The only known fossil is a skull missing the snout tip, and it probably belonged to a young adult.1

The name Zaraapelta comes from the Mongolian word for hedgehog and the Greek word for small shield, because ankylosaurs looked prickly and armoured.1 2

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

?How big was Zaraapelta?

The only known skull is about 40 centimetres long, so Zaraapelta was a medium-sized ankylosaur.1

?What did Zaraapelta eat?

It was a herbivore, eating plants.1

?Who discovered Zaraapelta?

It was discovered in 2000 by a team led by Phil Currie, and named in 2014 by Victoria Arbour.1 2

?What was Zaraapelta's closest relative?

Its closest known relative is Tarchia, another ankylosaur from Mongolia.1

迷思破解王

迷思： Some people think all armoured dinosaurs had tail clubs.

真相： Zaraapelta is known only from a skull, so scientists don't know if it had a tail club. Many ankylosaurs did, but not all.1

給恐龍專家

學名: Zaraapelta
命名者: Arbour et al. 20144
類群: 甲龍類
科 / 演化支: Ankylosauridae4
分類: Ornithischia > Ankylosauria > Ankylosauridae > Thyreophora4
岩石的年代: 100 到 84 百萬年 (Cenomanian / Santonian)4
岩層: Baynshire4
國家: 蒙古4
化石紀錄: The Paleobiology Database 收錄 1 筆4
發現: The skull was found in 2000 by a team led by Phil Currie in the Gobi Desert. In 2014, Victoria Arbour, Philip Currie, and Demchig Badamgarav named it Zaraapelta nomadis.1 2
仍有爭議: Scientists are still debating exactly how Zaraapelta is related to other ankylosaurs, and whether its fancy head ornaments were for protection or for showing off.1 2