Hudsonelpidia
Hudsonelpidia was a small, fast-swimming marine reptile that lived in the Late Triassic oceans. It looked a bit like a dolphin but was actually an ichthyosaur, not a dinosaur. It had a short snout and huge eyes to hunt in dim water.12
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Hudsonelpidia had very long, straight spines on its back vertebrae, which helped support a tall fin or ridge.1
Its front flipper bones (the zeugopodials) were much wider than long, while its back flipper bones were much longer than wide.1
This ichthyosaur had a short snout and very large eye sockets, suggesting it relied on good vision to hunt.1
Hudsonelpidia lived during the Norian age of the Late Triassic, about 227 to 205 million years ago.1
It was a small ichthyosaur, less than 2 metres (about 6.5 feet) long, making it one of the smaller members of its group.1
The name Hudsonelpidia means 'Hudson's eyelid', referring to the Hudson's Hope area in British Columbia where it was found.1

Dino adituentzat
- Izen zientifikoa
- Hudsonelpidia
- Izendatzailea:
- McGowan 19952
- Taldea
- Iktiosauroak
- Familia / klada
- Parvipelvia2
- Sailkapena
- Ichthyosauria > Ichthyosauromorpha2
- Arroken adina
- 227 eta 206 milioi urte artean (Norian)2
- Herrialdeak
- Kanada2
- Fosil-erregistroak
- 2 The Paleobiology Database datu-basean2
- Aurkikuntza
- Hudsonelpidia was named by paleontologist Chris McGowan in 1995, based on fossils found in British Columbia, Canada.1
- Oraindik eztabaidagai
- Scientists are not sure exactly how Hudsonelpidia is related to other ichthyosaurs, as different studies place it in different families.1
Datuak nondik datozen
- PBDB Taxon (paleobiodb.org)
- Hudsonelpidia in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): adina, tokiak, arroka-formazioak, sailkapena.
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