Hispaniasaurus

Din no ase: “lizard of Spain”1

Ɔdii: NamƐpo mu mmoa a wɔweaTriasik MfinimfiniNyansahu mu deɛ, ɔnyɛ dinosɔɔ

Hispaniasaurus was a strange marine reptile that lived in the shallow seas of Spain about 240 million years ago. It had a long, rectangular skull with no openings on top, and its teeth were big and strong.1 2

Asɛm a ɛyɛ anigye: ɛpo mu aboa a ɔwea yi guaree berɛ a dinosɔɔ nantew asase so. Obiara frɛ wɔn dino, nanso na wɔyɛ mmoa a wɔwea abusua foforɔ.

Ɔtenaa ase

mfeɛ ɔpepem 241 kɔsi 237 a atwam3

Triasik Mfinimfini

Wɔhunuu fɔsil wɔ

Villora, Cuenca Province, Spain3 1

Ntɛmntɛm a ɛsen biara

bɛyɛ 23 km/h (14 mph)

Nsuguareɛ, nsusuiɛ

Berɛ bɛn na ɛtenaa ase?

Triasik

Jurasik

Kretasias

mfeɛ ɔpepem 252 a atwam20114566, ɔsoro ɛboɔ no

Na ɛyɛ ntɛm sɛn?

Onipa a ɔnante bɛyɛ 5 km/h (3 mph)

Abofra a ɔte sakre so bɛyɛ 12 km/h (7 mph)

Hispaniasaurus bɛyɛ 23 km/h (14 mph)

Ɔpɔnkɔ a ɔretu mmirika bɛyɛ 65 km/h (40 mph)

Kyiita bɛyɛ 100 km/h (62 mph)

nneɛma a ɛyɛ fɛ

Nsɛm a ɛyɛ anigye

Hispaniasaurus is known only from a partial skull, which is very small and rectangular in shape.2

The bones on top of its skull were highly vascularised, meaning they had lots of blood vessels. Scientists think this might have helped it feed in a special way.2

It lived during the Middle Triassic period, about 241 to 237 million years ago, in a shallow marine environment.3 2

The upper temporal openings on its skull might have been closed shut, which is unusual for reptiles.2

Hispaniasaurus belongs to a group called eosauropterygians, which includes nothosaurs and other ancient marine reptiles.3 2

Yei yɛ Hispaniasaurus mfonini a AI yɛeɛ, sɛdeɛ ebia na ɔteɛ. Kɔmputa na ɛyɛeɛ firi deɛ nyansahufoɔ nim mu. Ɛyɛ nsusuiɛ: ebia na aboa ankasa no nte saa, na obiara nnim ne kɔla ankasa.

Ma dino ho animdefoɔ

Nyansahu din: Hispaniasaurus
Obi a ɔtoo din: Marquez-Aliaga et al. 20173
Kuo: Ɛpo mu mmoa a wɔwea
Abusua / kuo kɛseɛ: Eosauropterygia3
Nkyekyɛmu: Sauropterygia3
Abotan no mfeɛ: mfeɛ ɔpepem 241 kɔsi 237 (Ladinian)3
Abotan nhyehyɛeɛ: Cañete3
Aman: Spania3
Fɔsil nkyerɛwee: 1 wɔ The Paleobiology Database mu3
Nhunumu: Hispaniasaurus was named in 2017 by Ana Marquez-Aliaga and her team. The only fossil found so far is a partial skull from the Cañete Formation in Spain.1 3
Wɔda so gye ho akyinnye: Scientists are not sure whether the upper temporal openings on its skull were completely closed or located further back, because the fossil is incomplete.2

Baabi a nsɛm no firi

Hispaniasaurus (en.wikipedia.org)
An enigmatic marine reptile, Hispaniasaurus cranioelongatus (gen. et sp. nov.) with nothosauroid affinities from the Ladinian of the Iberian Range (Spain) (exa.ai)
Hispaniasaurus in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): mfeɛ, mmeaeɛ, abotan nhyehyɛeɛ, nkyekyɛmu.

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