Opallionectes
Opallionectes was a plesiosaur, a long-necked marine reptile that swam in the seas near Australia. It had needle-sharp teeth and ate fish and squid. Its bones were turned into opal, a shiny gemstone!1
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Opallionectes lived about 115 million years ago in a cold, possibly freezing sea.1
Its skeleton was found in an opal mine and parts of it turned into opal, a precious gemstone.1
It had fine, needle-like teeth that were flattened side to side, similar to ancient nothosaurs.1
Opallionectes is considered a missing link between older plesiosaurs from 165 million years ago and those from 66 million years ago.1
Scientists think it might have migrated to warmer waters or had a high metabolism to survive the cold.1

Ma dino ho animdefoɔ
- Nyansahu din
- Opallionectes
- Obi a ɔtoo din
- Kear 20063
- Kuo
- Plesiosɔɔ
- Abusua / kuo kɛseɛ
- Plesiosauroidea3
- Nkyekyɛmu
- Plesiosauria > Sauropterygia3
- Abotan no mfeɛ
- mfeɛ ɔpepem 120 kɔsi 113 (Aptian)3
- Abotan nhyehyɛeɛ
- Bulldog Shale3
- Aman
- Ɔstrelia3
- Fɔsil nkyerɛwee
- 1 wɔ The Paleobiology Database mu3
- Nhunumu
- The species Opallionectes andamookaensis was named by Benjamin P. Kear in 2006, based on a partial opalized skeleton found in an opal mine at Andamooka, South Australia.13
- Wɔda so gye ho akyinnye
- Scientists are not sure exactly how Opallionectes adapted to the cold waters it lived in, whether by migrating or by having a higher body temperature.1
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- Opallionectes (en.wikipedia.org)
- PBDB Taxon (paleobiodb.org)
- Opallionectes in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): mfeɛ, mmeaeɛ, abotan nhyehyɛeɛ, nkyekyɛmu.
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