Mamenchisaurus - Facts and Figures

Mamenchisaurus - Facts and Figures Name: Mamenchisaurus (Greek for Mamenxi reptile); articulated mama MEN-chih-SORE-us Territory: Woodlands and fields of Asia Verifiable Period: Late Jurassic (160-145 million years prior) Size and Weight: Up to 115 feet in length and 50-75 tons Diet: Plants Recognizing Characteristics: Uncommonly long neck, made out of 19 prolonged vertebrate; long, whiplike tail About Mamenchisaurus On the off chance that it hadnt been named after the area of China where it was found, in 1952, Mamenchisaurus may better have been called Neckosaurus. This sauropod (the group of huge, herbivorous, elephant-legged dinosaurs that ruled the late Jurassic time frame) wasnt very as thickly worked as increasingly renowned cousins like Apatosaurus or Argentinosaurus, yet it had the most amazing neck of any dinosaur of its kindover 35 feet since a long time ago, made out of no under nineteen immense, lengthened vertebrae (the majority of any sauropods except for Supersaurus and Sauroposeidon). With such a long neck, you may expect that Mamenchisaurus stayed alive on the highest leaves of tall trees. In any case, a few scientistss accept that this dinosaur, and different sauropods like it, was unequipped for holding its neck to its full vertical position, and rather cleared it to and fro near the ground, similar to the hose of a mammoth vacuum cleaner, as it devoured low-lying growth. This contention is intently attached to the warm-blooded/merciless dinosaur banter: its hard to envision a wanton Mamenchisaurus having a powerful enough digestion (or a sufficient heart) to empower it to siphon blood 35 feet straight very high, however a warm-blooded Mamenchisaurus presents its own arrangement of issues (counting the possibility that this plant-eater would actually cook itself from the back to front). There are as of now seven recognized Mamenchisaurus species, some of which may fall by the wayside as more exploration is directed on this dinosaur. The sort species, M. constructus, which was found in China by an expressway development group, is spoken to by a 43-foot-long fractional skeleton; M. anyuensis was at any rate 69 feet in length; M. hochuanensis, 72 feet in length; M. jingyanensis, up to 85 feet in length; M. sinocanadorum, up to 115 feet in length; and M. youngi, a moderately runty 52 feet in length; a seventh animal categories. M. fuxiensis, may not be a Mamenchisaurus at everything except a related family of sauropod (temporarily named Zigongosaurus). Mamenchisaurus was firmly identified with other since quite a while ago necked Asian sauropods, including Omeisaurus and Shunosaurus.