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

它是进化家族的早期成员，最终形成了叫做甲龙的恐龙群。

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

我们发现它的组织类型是侏罗纪中期恐龙中只出现在甲龙身上的。

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，只出现在剑龙类和甲龙类身上。

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

事实上，这是第一次在非洲发现的甲龙记录。

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

剑龙的前腿很短而后腿又很长，这一点很像它们带甲的亲戚甲龙。

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的甲龙。

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龙，它是最古老的甲龙，也是第一次在非洲发现的甲龙。

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

她和她的同事认为，这是为了打击其他甲龙。

Comparing ankylosaurs with animals alive today suggests that it was.

将甲龙与今天活着的动物进行比较，表明它的确会这么做。

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

Dyoplosaurus 是第一个发现有尾巴棒状证据的甲龙。

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

例如，翼龙消失了，但剑龙和甲龙最终取而代之， 成为披着盔甲的食草动物。

Those fights are over mates, which is what Dr Arbour suggests was also going on with ankylosaurs.

这些争斗是为了配偶，阿伯博士认为甲龙也是如此。

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

而且您绝对不想被甲龙尾部棍棒击中。

Ankylosaurs probably used armor as their main mode of defense.

甲龙可能使用盔甲作为它们的主要防御方式。

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

现在你可能会认为这件装备对于甲龙来说是非常典型的。

And in 2018, similar nasal structures in two different species of ankylosaurs were shown to have functioned like turbinates.

2018 年，两种不同种类的甲龙的相似鼻结构被证明具有类似鼻甲的功能。

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甲龙尾巴棒是否可以用作武器。

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

根据现有证据很难确定类似的东西是否与甲龙有关。

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

这个尾锤属于一种甲龙，它被称为无齿甲龙。

Fossils show ankylosaur tails had similar adaptations.

化石显示甲龙的尾巴有类似的适应性。