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Kentrosaurus
Kentrosaurus aethiopicus (Kentrosaurus · Kentrosaurus)
Known only from fossils. The IUCN Red List assesses only species extant since 1500 CE, so fossil taxa are not assigned a category.
💡 Everyday Comparisons for Size, Mass & Speed
- 💡 An estimated body length of about 5 m (representative value for the genus) is slightly longer than a single passenger car (about 4.5 m) (Comparison).
- 💡 A length of 5 m is just short of the length of two table tennis tables (2.74 m long) placed end to end (Comparison).
Reference standards: coach bus ~12 m, mid-size car ~4.9 m, compact car ~1 t, basketball hoop 3.05 m, credit card 8.56 cm.
📖 1. Overview
Kentrosaurus aethiopicus (genus Kentrosaurus) was a herbivorous armored dinosaur that lived in what is now Tanzania during the Late Jurassic.
🦴 2. Anatomy & Morphology
Its body length listed in the Natural History Museum in London guide is about 5 m (representative value for the genus, estimated).
🔍 3. Fossil Record & Paleoecology
The guide introduces it as herbivorous and notes that its fossils were found in Tanzania.
🇰🇷 4. Connection to Korea
No direct record connecting this species to Korea has been found.
📚 Sources & References
- • Fossil taxon — the IUCN Red List assesses only species living or extinct since 1500
- • paleobiodb.org — basicTaxonInfo
- • wikidata.org — Q20718531
- • commons.wikimedia.org — File:Berlin Naturkundemuseum Dino Eingangshalle.jpg
- • nhm.ac.uk — kentrosaurus.html
- • Silhouette: PhyloPic — Matt Dempsey · CC BY 4.0
Recorded dimensions are widely cited representative estimates from public literature and may vary by study or specimen.