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Brancasaurus

Izenaren esanahia: “Branca's lizard”1
Jaten zuen: HaragiaPlesiosauroakBehe KretazeoaTeknikoki ez da dinosauroa

Brancasaurus was a plesiosaur, a long-necked marine reptile that lived in a freshwater lake. It had a small head and a long tail, and swam with four flippers like paddles.1

Datu dibertigarria: itsas narrasti hau igerian zebilen dinosauroak lehorrean ibiltzen ziren bitartean. Denek dino deitzen diete, baina narrastien beste adar bat ziren.
Bizi izan zen
Duela 139 eta 137 milioi urte artean5
Behe Kretazeoa
Fosilak hemen aurkitu dira:
North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany15
Luzera
3,26 m (11 ft)1
Abiadura maximoa
28 km/h inguru (17 mph)
Igeri egitea, kalkulua

Noiz bizi izan zen?

Triasikoa
Jurasikoa
Kretazeoa
Duela 252 milioi urte20114566, asteroidea

Zein handia zen?

Zein luzea zen?

Brancasaurus 3,26 m inguru luze (11 ft)Heldu baten bizikleta 1,8 m inguru (5,9 ft)Auto bat 4,5 m inguru (15 ft)Elefante bat, gaur egungo lehorreko animaliarik handiena 6,5 m inguru (21 ft)
3 txakur bezain luze, sudurretik buztanerabata bestearen atzean jarritako 18 banana bezain luzeigerileku handi baten luzera (50 m) 6,4 segundotan egin zezakeen igerian

Zein handia zen Brancasaurus ZUREKIN alderatuta?

Zure nabigatzaileko kalkulu hutsak. Ez da ezer gordetzen ez inora bidaltzen.

Zein azkarra zen?

gauza bikainak

Datu dibertigarriak

1

Brancasaurus lived in a huge freshwater lake, not the ocean. The lake was sometimes connected to the sea.1

2

Its neck bones had tall, shark-fin-shaped spines on top, which is unusual for plesiosaurs.1

3

The first fossil was found by workers digging clay with pickaxes in 1910. They accidentally broke the hip bone into 176 pieces.1

4

Brancasaurus was about 3.26 metres (10.7 feet) long as a subadult. Adults may have been a bit bigger.1

5

Another plesiosaur named Gronausaurus wegneri is now thought to be the same as Brancasaurus, just a different growth stage.12

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Brancasaurus shared its lake with sharks, crocodiles, turtles, and many kinds of fish.1

AAk eginaBrancasaurus: AAk egindako irudia
Brancasaurus nolakoa izan zitekeen erakusten duen AAk egindako irudia, ordenagailu batek zientzialariek dakitenetik sortua. Asmakizun bat da: benetako animalia desberdina izan zitekeen, eta inork ez daki zein ziren bere benetako koloreak.
zure galderak

Brancasaurus: gehien egindako galderak

?Was Brancasaurus a dinosaur?

No, Brancasaurus was a plesiosaur, a type of marine reptile that lived in the time of the dinosaurs, but it was not a dinosaur itself.13

?How big was Brancasaurus?

The most complete fossil, a subadult, was about 3.26 metres (10.7 feet) long. Adults may have been a bit bigger.143

?What did Brancasaurus eat?

Brancasaurus likely hunted fish near the surface of the water, such as Caturus, Lepidotes, and Callopterus.13

?Where did Brancasaurus live?

Brancasaurus lived in a large freshwater lake in what is now Germany, during the Early Cretaceous period. The lake was sometimes connected to the sea.143

Dino adituentzat

Izen zientifikoa
Brancasaurus
Izendatzailea:
Wegner 19145
Taldea
Plesiosauroak
Familia / klada
Leptocleididae5
Sailkapena
Plesiosauria > Sauropterygia5
Arroken adina
139 eta 137 milioi urte artean (Berriasian)5
Arroka-formazioak
Bückeberg5
Herrialdeak
Alemania5
Fosil-erregistroak
1 The Paleobiology Database datu-basean5
Aurkikuntza
Brancasaurus was named by Theodor Wegner in 1914. He named it after the paleontologist Wilhelm von Branca. The first skeleton was found in a clay pit near Gronau, Germany in 1910.1
Oraindik eztabaidagai
Scientists are not sure whether Brancasaurus belongs to the elasmosaurid family or the leptocleidid family. Different studies give different answers.12

Datuak nondik datozen

  1. Brancasaurus (en.wikipedia.org)
  2. Reappraisal of Europe's most complete Early Cretaceous plesiosaurian: Brancasaurus brancai Wegner, 1914 from the "Wealden facies" of Germany (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
  3. Brancasaurus Facts for Kids (kids.kiddle.co)
  4. Reappraisal of Europe’s most complete Early Cretaceous plesiosaurian: Brancasaurus brancai Wegner, 1914 from the “Wealden facies” of Germany [PeerJ] (peerj.com)
  5. Brancasaurus in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): adina, tokiak, arroka-formazioak, sailkapena.

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