Anguanax

Naam beteken: “lord of the Anguana, a water spirit from Italian myths”1

Het geëet: VleisPlesiosourusseMiddel-Jura tot Laat JuraTegnies nie 'n dinosourus nie

Anguanax was a plesiosaur, a marine reptile that lived in the warm Jurassic seas. It was a powerful swimmer and a meat-eater, using its long jaws and sharp teeth to catch fish and other soft-bodied prey.1

Prettige feit: hierdie seereptiel het geswem terwyl dinosourusse op land geloop het. Almal noem hulle dino's, maar hulle was 'n ander tak van die reptiele.

Het geleef

165 tot 159 miljoen jaar gelede3

Middel-Jura tot Laat Jura

Fossiele gevind in

Kaberlaba quarry near Asiago, Vicenza Province, northern Italy3 1

Lengte

3 tot 4 m (9,8 tot 13 ft)1

Topspoed

omtrent 29 km/h (18 mph)

Swem, skatting

Wanneer het dit geleef?

Trias

Jura

Kryt

252 miljoen jaar gelede20114566, die asteroïde

Hoe groot was dit?

Hoe lank was dit?

so lank soos 4 honde van neus tot stertso lank soos 22 piesangs punt aan puntkon die lengte van 'n groot swembad (50 m) in 6,2 sekondes swem

Hoe groot was Anguanax vergeleke met JOU?

Net wiskunde in jou blaaier. Niks word gestoor of êrens heen gestuur nie.

Hoe vinnig was dit?

'n Mens wat loop omtrent 5 km/h (3 mph)

'n Kind op 'n fiets omtrent 12 km/h (7 mph)

Anguanax omtrent 29 km/h (18 mph)

'n Galopperende perd omtrent 65 km/h (40 mph)

'n Jagluiperd omtrent 100 km/h (62 mph)

cool goed

Prettige feite

Anguanax is the first articulated skeleton of a plesiosaur ever found in Italy.1

Its name comes from the Anguana, a water spirit in Italian folklore that was part fish and part reptile.1

Anguanax lived about 160 million years ago, during the Late Jurassic period.1

The skeleton was discovered in the 1980s but was not fully studied until 2014 by scientists Andrea Cau and Federico Fanti.1

Anguanax had a large skull compared to its body, which helped scientists identify it as a pliosaurid, a type of plesiosaur.1

Its eye sockets were moderately expanded and faced sideways, suggesting it hunted in the upper layers of the ocean.1

KI-prent van Anguanax — 'n KI-prent van hoe Anguanax dalk gelyk het, deur 'n rekenaar gemaak uit wat wetenskaplikes weet. Dit is 'n raaiskoot: die regte dier het dalk anders gelyk, en niemand weet wat sy regte kleure was nie.

Vir dino-kenners

Wetenskaplike naam: Anguanax
Benoem deur: Cau and Fanti 20163
Groep: Plesiosourusse
Familie / klade: Pliosauridae3
Klassifikasie: Plesiosauria > Pliosauridae > Sauropterygia3
Ouderdom van die rotse: 165 tot 159 miljoen jaar (Callovian / Oxfordian)3
Rotsformasies: Rosso Ammonitico Veronese3
Lande: Italië3
Fossielrekords: 1 in The Paleobiology Database3
Ontdekking: The skeleton was collected in the 1980s from a quarry in northern Italy, but it was first described and named Anguanax zignoi by Andrea Cau and Federico Fanti in 2015. The species name honors Achille de Zigno, who found the first plesiosaur remains in the same area in the 1800s.1
Steeds omstrede: Scientists are still debating exactly how Anguanax is related to other plesiosaurs, with some analyses placing it as a basal pliosaurid and others as a sister group to different lineages.2

Waar die feite vandaan kom

Anguanax (en.wikipedia.org)
High evolutionary rates and the origin of the Rosso Ammonitico Veronese Formation (Middle-Upper Jurassic of Italy) reptiles (cris.unibo.it)
Anguanax in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): ouderdom, plekke, rotsformasies, klassifikasie.

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