Morenosaurus

Naam beteken: “Moreno lizard, named after the Moreno Formation where it was found”1

Het geëet: VleisPlesiosourusseLaat KrytTegnies nie 'n dinosourus nie

Morenosaurus was a huge marine reptile that swam in the seas near California about 70 million years ago. It had a very long neck and flippers like paddles, and it was not a dinosaur!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

72 tot 66 miljoen jaar gelede3

Laat Kryt

Fossiele gevind in

Panoche Hills, Fresno County, California, USA1 2

Topspoed

omtrent 27 km/h (17 mph)

Swem, skatting

Wanneer het dit geleef?

Trias

Jura

Kryt

252 miljoen jaar gelede20114566, die asteroïde

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)

Morenosaurus omtrent 27 km/h (17 mph)

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

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

cool goed

Prettige feite

The skeleton of Morenosaurus was fairly complete, but it was missing the head and parts of the neck and paddles.1

The preserved part of the trunk and tail is 3.63 metres (11.9 feet) long.1

Morenosaurus lived during the Maastrichtian age, about 72 to 66 million years ago.3

The type specimen is stored at the California Institute of Technology, but the mounted skeleton is now in the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.1

Morenosaurus belongs to a group called elasmosaurids, which were plesiosaurs with very long necks.1

KI-prent van Morenosaurus — 'n KI-prent van hoe Morenosaurus 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.

Mite-breker

Mite: Some people think all marine reptiles from the dinosaur age were dinosaurs.

Waarheid: Morenosaurus was a plesiosaur, a marine reptile, not a dinosaur. Dinosaurs lived on land.1

Vir dino-kenners

Wetenskaplike naam: Morenosaurus
Benoem deur: Welles 19433
Groep: Plesiosourusse
Familie / klade: Elasmosauridae3
Klassifikasie: Plesiosauria > Elasmosauridae > Sauropterygia3
Ouderdom van die rotse: 72 tot 66 miljoen jaar (Maastrichtian)3
Rotsformasies: Moreno3
Lande: VSA3
Fossielrekords: 2 in The Paleobiology Database3
Ontdekking: The skeleton was found by Robert Wallace and Arthur Drescher in 1939 in the Panoche Hills, California. Samuel Welles named it Morenosaurus stocki in 1943, honoring Dr. Chester Stock.1 2
Steeds omstrede: Scientists are not sure about the total length of Morenosaurus because the head and neck are missing from the fossil.1

Waar die feite vandaan kom

Morenosaurus (en.wikipedia.org)
Dinosaur Institute Collections Details | NHM (collections.nhm.org)
Morenosaurus in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): ouderdom, plekke, rotsformasies, klassifikasie.

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