Carentonosaurus
Carentonosaurus was a marine lizard that swam in warm, shallow seas during the time of the dinosaurs. It had a strange, heavy backbone that made it extra dense, like a living anchor in the water.1
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Carentonosaurus had very thick, heavy bones in its back, a condition called pachyostosis, which helped it stay underwater without floating up.1
Its neck bones were not thickened, only the back bones were pachyostotic, which is unusual among marine lizards.1
This lizard lived about 100 to 94 million years ago, during the Cenomanian stage of the Cretaceous Period.3
Carentonosaurus fossils have been found in France, Portugal, and Spain, showing it lived in the warm Tethys Sea.2
It is part of a group called aigialosaurs, which are close relatives of the giant mosasaurs.3
The first fossils were discovered in western France, in rocks that were once a shallow, warm sea near a coast.1

Ma dino ho animdefoɔ
- Nyansahu din
- Carentonosaurus
- Obi a ɔtoo din
- Rage and Néraudeau 20043
- Kuo
- Mosasɔɔ
- Abusua / kuo kɛseɛ
- Aigialosauridae3
- Nkyekyɛmu
- Mosasauroidea3
- Abotan no mfeɛ
- mfeɛ ɔpepem 100 kɔsi 94 (Cenomanian)3
- Abotan nhyehyɛeɛ
- La Cabaña, B3/C1, Tentúgal3
- Aman
- Frɛnse, Spania, Pɔtugal3
- Fɔsil nkyerɛwee
- 8 wɔ The Paleobiology Database mu3
- Wɔsan frɛ no
- Carentonosaurus (din dada no nso, yɛkan no sɛ aboa korɔ no ara)3
- Nhunumu
- Carentonosaurus was named by paleontologists Jean-Claude Rage and Didier Néraudeau in 2004, based on fossils found in the Charente region of France.31
- Wɔda so gye ho akyinnye
- Scientists are not sure if Carentonosaurus lived only in the early part of the Late Cretaceous or if it also appeared in the early Cenomanian.1
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- A new pachyostotic squamate reptile from the Cenomanian of France (exa.ai)
- PBDB Taxon (paleobiodb.org)
- Carentonosaurus in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): mfeɛ, mmeaeɛ, abotan nhyehyɛeɛ, nkyekyɛmu.
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