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Zarafasaura
Zarafasaura was a plesiosaur, a marine reptile that swam in the warm seas of the Late Cretaceous. It was a small elasmosaur, about as long as a car, and it used its long neck to snap up fish and squid.1
Berɛ bɛn na ɛtenaa ase?
Na ne kɛseɛ yɛ sɛn?
Na ne tenten yɛ sɛn?
Na ne mu yɛ duru sɛn?
ne tenten te sɛ nkraman 4 firi hwene kɔsi dua🍌ne tenten te sɛ kwadu 22 a wɔde abɔ toatoa so🍉ne mu duru te sɛ watamɛlɔn 22🧸ne mu duru te sɛ nkɔkɔaa sukuu mmofra 6🎒ne mu duru te sɛ sukuu mmofra 3🏊anka ɔbɛtumi aguare nsuguarebea kɛseɛ (50 m) tenten wɔ sikɛn 6.7 muZarafasaura kɛseɛ yɛ sɛn sɛ wode toto WO ho a?
Akontaa nko ara wɔ wo browser mu. Yɛnkora biribiara so, na yɛmmfa biribiara nkɔ baabiara.
Na ɛyɛ ntɛm sɛn?
Nsɛm a ɛyɛ anigye
Zarafasaura means 'giraffe lizard' in Arabic, because local people thought the long-necked fossils looked like giraffes.1
It was a small plesiosaur, only about 3 to 4 metres long, much smaller than its giant cousins like Elasmosaurus.1
The first fossil of Zarafasaura was just a skull and jaw, found in phosphate mines in Morocco.1
In 2013, a more complete skeleton was discovered, showing its flippers and backbone for the first time.1
Zarafasaura lived about 72 to 66 million years ago, right at the end of the Age of Dinosaurs.2
A specimen of Zarafasaura was almost sold at auction in Paris for €450,000, but the sale was stopped and it was sent back to Morocco.1
Nsɛm a wɔbisa bebree fa Zarafasaura ho
?Was Zarafasaura a dinosaur?
No, Zarafasaura was a plesiosaur, a marine reptile that lived in the sea, not a dinosaur.1
?How big was Zarafasaura?
About 3 to 4 metres long and weighed roughly 100 kilograms, about the size of a large dog.1
?What did Zarafasaura eat?
It likely ate fish and squid, using its long neck to snap them up in the warm Cretaceous seas.1
?Where was Zarafasaura found?
Its fossils were discovered in phosphate mines in the Ouled Abdoun Basin of Morocco, North Africa.1
Ma dino ho animdefoɔ
- Nyansahu din
- Zarafasaura
- Obi a ɔtoo din
- Vincent et al. 20113
- Kuo
- Plesiosɔɔ
- Abusua / kuo kɛseɛ
- Elasmosauridae3
- Nkyekyɛmu
- Plesiosauria > Elasmosauridae > Sauropterygia3
- Abotan no mfeɛ
- mfeɛ ɔpepem 72 kɔsi 66 (Maastrichtian)3
- Abotan nhyehyɛeɛ
- Couche III3
- Aman
- Moroko3
- Fɔsil nkyerɛwee
- 1 wɔ The Paleobiology Database mu3
- Nhunumu
- Zarafasaura was named in 2011 by a team of scientists led by Peggy Vincent. The first fossil, a skull and jaw, was found in the phosphate mines of the Ouled Abdoun Basin in Morocco.1
- Wɔda so gye ho akyinnye
- Scientists are still debating exactly how Zarafasaura is related to other plesiosaurs, and whether it had any special features in its flippers or body.1
Baabi a nsɛm no firi
- Zarafasaura (en.wikipedia.org)
- PBDB Taxon (paleobiodb.org)
- Zarafasaura in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): mfeɛ, mmeaeɛ, abotan nhyehyɛeɛ, nkyekyɛmu.
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