Tricleidus

Naam beteken: “three keyed (or three locked) lizard”1

Het geëet: VleisPlesiosourusseVroeë Jura tot Laat JuraTegnies nie 'n dinosourus nie

Tricleidus was a plesiosaur, a marine reptile that swam in the seas during the Jurassic Period. It had a small head, a long neck, and flippers to paddle through the water. It was not a dinosaur, but a distant cousin that lived in the ocean.1 3

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

184 tot 155 miljoen jaar gelede3

Vroeë Jura tot Laat Jura

Fossiele gevind in

Fossils have been found in the United Kingdom and Norway.3 1

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)

Tricleidus 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

Tricleidus is known from only one skeleton, found in the Oxford Clay of England.1

The first fossil was a shoulder girdle, which is part of the skeleton that supports the flippers.2

It lived about 165 to 161 million years ago, during the Callovian age of the Jurassic.2

One species that was once called Tricleidus svalbardensis was moved to another genus, Colymbosaurus, in 2012.1

Tricleidus belongs to a group called Cryptoclididae, which were plesiosaurs with long necks and small heads.1 3

The type specimen is stored in a museum and is called BMNH R3539.1 2

KI-prent van Tricleidus — 'n KI-prent van hoe Tricleidus 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 Tricleidus was a dinosaur because it lived long ago and is often shown in dinosaur books.

Waarheid: Tricleidus was a plesiosaur, a marine reptile, not a dinosaur. Dinosaurs lived on land and had different body features.1

Vir dino-kenners

Wetenskaplike naam: Tricleidus
Benoem deur: Andrews 19093
Groep: Plesiosourusse
Familie / klade: Cryptoclididae3
Klassifikasie: Plesiosauria > Sauropterygia3
Ouderdom van die rotse: 184 tot 155 miljoen jaar (Toarcian / Oxfordian)3
Rotsformasies: Oxford Clay3
Lande: Verenigde Koninkryk, Noorweë3
Fossielrekords: 3 in The Paleobiology Database3
Ontdekking: Tricleidus was named by C. W. Andrews in 1909, based on a skeleton found in the Oxford Clay of Peterborough, England. The type species is Tricleidus seeleyi.1 3
Steeds omstrede: Scientists are still debating how Tricleidus is related to other plesiosaurs, and some fossils from Norway were once assigned to it but later moved to another genus.1

Waar die feite vandaan kom

Tricleidus (en.wikipedia.org)
PBDB Taxon (paleobiodb.org)
Tricleidus in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): ouderdom, plekke, rotsformasies, klassifikasie.

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