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Glyphoderma

Naam beteken: “sculptured skin”1

Het geëet: VisSeereptieleMiddel-TriasTegnies nie 'n dinosourus nie

Glyphoderma was a strange, armored reptile that swam in the seas of China during the Middle Triassic. It had a hard shell made of hundreds of bony plates, like a turtle, but it was actually a placodont, a cousin of the long-necked plesiosaurs.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

241 tot 237 miljoen jaar gelede3

Middel-Trias

Fossiele gevind in

Fuyuan, Yunnan Province, China3 1

Lengte

0,873 m (2,9 ft)1

Topspoed

omtrent 5 km/h (3 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 1,5 huiskatte van neus tot stertso lank soos 5 piesangs punt aan puntkon die lengte van 'n groot swembad (50 m) in 36 sekondes swem

Hoe groot was Glyphoderma 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)

Glyphoderma omtrent 5 km/h (3 mph)

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

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

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

cool goed

Prettige feite

Glyphoderma's shell was made of more than 400 separate bony plates, called osteoderms, that fit together like a puzzle.1

It had three large, cone-shaped bumps fused to the back of its skull, which no other placodont had.1 2

Glyphoderma is the only known placodont from the Ladinian age of the Middle Triassic in its family, Placochelyidae.2

Its name means 'sculptured skin' because of the deep grooves and ridges on its shell plates.1

The first fossil of Glyphoderma was found in a thick block of limestone, so scientists cannot see its belly very well.1

Glyphoderma had a very strong skull because most of its skull bones were fused together.1

KI-prent van Glyphoderma — 'n KI-prent van hoe Glyphoderma 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: Glyphoderma
Benoem deur: Zhao et al. 20083
Groep: Seereptiele
Familie / klade: Placochelyidae3
Klassifikasie: Placodontia > Sauropterygia3
Ouderdom van die rotse: 241 tot 237 miljoen jaar (Ladinian)3
Rotsformasies: Falang3
Lande: China3
Fossielrekords: 1 in The Paleobiology Database3
Ontdekking: Glyphoderma was named in 2008 by Zhao Lijun and colleagues based on a nearly complete skeleton found in Fuyuan, Yunnan, China. The species name G. kangi honors Mr. Kang Ximin.3 1
Steeds omstrede: Scientists are still debating exactly how Glyphoderma swam and moved, because its flattened body and heavy shell were very different from other marine reptiles.1

Waar die feite vandaan kom

Glyphoderma (en.wikipedia.org)
A NEW ARMORED PLACODONT FROM THE MIDDLE TRIASSIC OF YUNNAN PROVINCE, SOUTHWESTERN CHINA (vertpala.ac.cn)
Glyphoderma in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): ouderdom, plekke, rotsformasies, klassifikasie.

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