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Georgia

Say it: JOR-juh-SORE-us

Name means: “Georgy's lizard”1

Ate: MeatPlesiosaursLate CretaceousNot technically a dinosaur

Georgiasaurus was a plesiosaur, a marine reptile that lived in the sea during the time of dinosaurs. It had a long neck and four flippers to swim after fish. This predator grew as long as a small bus!1

Fun fact: this sea reptile swam while dinosaurs walked on land. Everyone calls them dinos, but they were a different branch of reptiles.

Lived

86 to 84 million years ago2

Late Cretaceous

Food

Meat2

Length

4 to 5 m1

Weight

450 kg1

When did it live?

Triassic

Jurassic

Cretaceous

252 million years ago20114566, the asteroid

How big was it?

How long was it?

How heavy was it?

as heavy as 15 big dogs

as long as 5 dogs nose to tailas long as 28 bananas end to endas heavy as 90 watermelons

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Fun facts

The first name for this animal was Georgia, but that name was already used for a snake, so scientists changed it to Georgiasaurus.1

The only known fossil is a complete skeleton, but it was damaged when workers cut the stone it was in.1

Georgiasaurus lived about 85 to 83 million years ago, during the Santonian stage of the Late Cretaceous.2

It belonged to a group of plesiosaurs called polycotylids, which were fast swimmers.1

The name honors Georgy Otschev, the father of the scientist who described it.1

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Scientific name: Georgia
Named by: Otschev 19762
Group: Plesiosaurs
Family / clade: Polycotylidae2
Classification: Plesiosauria > Sauropterygia2
Age of the rocks: 86 to 84 million years (Santonian)2
Fossil records: 1 in the Paleobiology Database2
Discovery: Russian paleontologist V. A. Otschev named the animal Georgia in 1976, based on a skeleton found near Zatolokino. In 1977 the name was changed to Georgiasaurus because Georgia was already taken.1
Still debated: Scientists are not sure exactly how fast Georgiasaurus could swim or how deep it dove.1

Where the facts come from

Georgiasaurus (en.wikipedia.org)
Georgia in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): age, places, rock formations, classification.

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