And in fact, this is the first record of an ankylosaur from Africa.

事实上，这是第一次在非洲记录。

It was an early member of the evolutionary family that led to the dinosaur group called ankylosaurs.

它是进化家族早期成员，最终形成了叫做恐群。

Now, not only that, it's also the oldest ankylosaur from anywhere in the world.

不仅如此，它还是世界上最古老。

I want to introduce to you 'Spicomellus afer', which is the oldest ankylosaur and the first from Africa.

我想给大家介绍非洲刺圈，它是最古老，也是第一次在非洲。

We found that it has a tissue type that we only find in ankylosaurs among dinosaurs of this age.

我们它组织类型是侏罗纪中期恐中只出在身上。

It's T-shaped in cross-section and we only see T-shaped ribs in stegosaurs and in ankylosaurs.

背肋骨横截面呈 T 形，只出在剑类和类身上。

That, she and her colleagues reckon, was to bash other ankylosaurs.

她和她同事认为，这是为了打击其他。

Stegosaurs are very much like their armored cousin the ankylosaurs in having very small forelegs and very long hind legs.

剑前腿很短而后腿又很长，这一点很像它们带亲戚。

Dyoplosaurus was the first ankylosaur discovered with evidence of a tail club.

Dyoplosaurus 是第一个有尾巴棒状证据。

Whether something similar pertained to ankylosaurs is difficult to determine from the existing evidence.

根据有证据很难确定类似东西是否与有关。

Comparing ankylosaurs with animals alive today suggests that it was.

将与今天活着动物进行比较，表明它确会这么做。

And you definitely would not want to get hit by an ankylosaur tail club.

而且您绝对不想被尾部棍棒击中。

Ankylosaurs probably used armor as their main mode of defense.

可能使用盔作为它们主要防御方式。

Now you might think that this piece of equipment is pretty typical for an ankylosaur.

在你可能会认为这件装备对于来说是非常典型。

We could finally answer with certainty whether ankylosaur tail clubs could've been used as a weapon.

我们终于可以肯定地回答尾巴棒是否可以用作武器。

The aetosaurs, for example, were gone, but stegosaurs and ankylosaurs eventually took their place as armor-covered herbivores.

例如，翼消失了，但剑和最终取而代之， 成为披着盔食草动物。

This one belonged to a kind of ankylosaur, known as anodontosaur.

这个尾锤属于一种，它被称为无齿。

Fossils show ankylosaur tails had similar adaptations.

化石显示尾巴有类似适应性。

I found that large ankylosaur tail clubs impacted with somewhere between 35,000 and 70,000 newtons of force.

我大型尾部棍棒受到大约 35,000 到 70,000 牛顿力影响。

Strangely enough, it looks like the earliest ankylosaur tail clubs actually started out … clubless.

奇怪是，看起来最早尾部棒状物实际上是从… … 无棒状开始。