Minmi paravertebra - Wikipedia
Minmi is a genus of small herbivorous ankylosaurian dinosaur that lived during the early Cretaceous Period of Australia, about 120 to 112 million years ago.
Dinosaur - Minmi paravertebra - The Australian Museum
Minmi paravertebra was an ankylosaur, a quadrupedal dinosaur covered in bony armour. It was discovered in 1964 near Minmi Crossing, Queensland, and was the first ankylosaur known from the Southern Hemisphere. Minmi had thin bony rods (ossified tendons, or 'paravertebrae') along its spine that may have been for muscle attachment.
Minmi - Natural History Museum
This dinosaur is known from an almost complete skeleton with armour in place. What on Earth? Explore Minmi, a plant-eating armoured dinosaur in the Dino Directory.
Minmi paravertebra - Australian Age of Dinosaurs
At Roma, Queensland, in 1964, Dr Alan Bartholomai was led by a local to a gully north of Roma, and, sure enough, there were fossilised bones in rock! These were acid-prepared at Queensland Museum in the 1970s, and the bones extracted were named and described by …
Minmi - Western Australian Museum
Minmi is the best known of all armoured dinosaurs (ankylosaurs) from Gondwana thanks to a nearly complete skeleton found in north-central Queensland that is 105 million years old. Minmi was moderately sized, similar to ankylosaurs of the Early Cretaceous found on other continents.
Minmi - Prehistoric Wildlife
2013年4月3日 · Perhaps the most exciting discovery associated with Minmi is that of a cololite, a food pellet that would have been inside the stomach of the living dinosaur that reveals what kind of food it ate. Analysis revealed the presence of seeds, fruit and both fibrous vascular (stems, leaves) and vesicular ...
Minmi: Facts and Figures - ThoughtCo
2020年1月11日 · Minmi was an unusually small, and unusually primitive, ankylosaur (armored dinosaur) from middle Cretaceous Australia. This plant-eater's armor was rudimentary compared to that of later, more famous genera like Ankylosaurus and Euoplocephalus , consisting of horizontal bony plates running along the sides of its backbone, a noticeable thickening ...
OZ fossils - The Age of Reptiles - Northern Region - Minmi
Minmi paravertebra is a small armoured dinosaur - an ankylosaur -that lived about 95 to 100 million years ago. What was its armour like? The armour was quite hard and heavy – more like the shell of a turtle than the tough skin of a crocodile. It would have been very difficult to bite through and kept the Minmi safe from predators.
Minmi - An Aussie Armoured Dinosaur of the Early Cretaceous
2012年1月23日 · Minmi (scientific name Minmi paravertebra) is relatively small for an ankylosaur, measuring about 2.5 metres in length. Its fossils, consisting of a beautifully preserved and almost complete , single, individual specimen were discovered in Australia. The fossils were found at a location known as Minmi crossing, hence this armoured dinosaur’s name.
Cranial osteology of the ankylosaurian dinosaur formerly known as Minmi …
2015年7月3日 · Seven specimens are known, all from the Lower Cretaceous of Queensland. Only two of these have been described in any detail: the holotype specimen Minmi paravertebra from the Bungil Formation near Roma, and a near complete skeleton from the Allaru Mudstone on Marathon Station near Richmond, preliminarily referred to a possible new species of Minmi.