| 翻訳と辞書 |
Zalmoxes
:''For the Dacian god, see Zalmoxis.''
''Zalmoxes'' is an extinct genus of rhabdodontid ornithopod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Romania. The genus is known from specimens first named as the species ''Mochlodon robustum'' in 1899 by Franz Nopcsa before being reclassified as ''Rhabdodon robustum'' by him in 1915. In 1990 this name was corrected to ''Rhabdodon robustus'' by George Olshevsky, and in 2003 the species was once more reclassified, this time as the type species ''Zalmoxes robustus''. ''Zalmoxes'' refers to the Dacian deity Zalmoxis, and ''robustus'' to the robustness of the remains. In 2003 another species was named, ''Zalmoxes shqiperorum'', named for the Albanian name for Albania.
==History of discovery==
''Zalmoxes'' was first known from numerous fossils found in Transylvania, which were named as the species ''Mochlodon robustum'' by Baron Franz Nopcsa in 1899. The species name referred to its robust build.〔 In 1915 Nopcsa renamed the species as ''Rhabdodon robustum'', amended by in 2003 by David B. Weishampel, Coralia-Maria Jianu, Zoltan Csiki and David B. Norman. Weishampel ''et al.'' (2003) published a paper on new remains from Romania, which they found to represent a new species. They found ''R. robustus'' was sufficiently different from ''Rhabdodon'', and thus named the new genus ''Zalmoxes'' for the former. The genus refers to the Dacian deity Zalmoxis (sometimes spelled Zalmoxes), who travelled to ancient Romania and ended up being deified as a god. In addition, Weishampel ''et al.'' named the new specimens ''Zalmoxes shqiperorum'', after Shqiperia the albainain name for Albania, where Nopcsa had a special relation.〔
抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』
■ウィキペディアで「Zalmoxes」の詳細全文を読む
スポンサード リンク
| 翻訳と辞書 : 翻訳のためのインターネットリソース |
Copyright(C) kotoba.ne.jp 1997-2016. All Rights Reserved.
|
|