Pannoniasaurus
Pannoniasaurus was a mosasaur, a kind of marine lizard, but it lived in rivers, not the sea! It had a flat, crocodile-like skull and could grow up to 6 meters long. This unexpected hunter lived in what is now Hungary during the Late Cretaceous.1
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Pannoniasaurus is the first mosasauroid ever found that lived in freshwater, like a river dolphin.1
Its name means 'unexpected' because scientists were surprised to find a mosasaur in freshwater rocks.1
It had a flattened, violin-shaped snout and teeth with ridges, like a crocodile.1
Fossils of many individuals, from babies to adults, were found together in a flood deposit.1
Pannoniasaurus lived alongside dinosaurs, pterosaurs, turtles, and crocodiles in a tropical floodplain.1
Its tail was not flattened like other mosasaurs, so it probably swam more like a land lizard.1

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?Was Pannoniasaurus a dinosaur?
No, it was a mosasaur, a kind of marine lizard, not a dinosaur.2
?How big was Pannoniasaurus?
It was a medium sized mosasaur, reaching up to 6 metres (20 feet) in length.2
?Did Pannoniasaurus live in the sea?
No, it lived in freshwater rivers and floodplains, unlike most other mosasaurs.1
?What did Pannoniasaurus eat?
It probably ate fish and other small animals in the rivers, based on its crocodile-like teeth and habitat.2
Mito-hauslea
Mitoa: All mosasaurs lived only in the ocean.
Egia: Pannoniasaurus shows that some mosasaurs lived in freshwater rivers and lakes.1
Dino adituentzat
- Izen zientifikoa
- Pannoniasaurus
- Izendatzailea:
- Makádi et al. 20123
- Taldea
- Mosasauroak
- Familia / klada
- Tethysaurinae3
- Sailkapena
- Mosasauroidea3
- Arroken adina
- 86 eta 84 milioi urte artean (Santonian)3
- Arroka-formazioak
- Csehbánya, Ajka Coal3
- Herrialdeak
- Hungaria3
- Fosil-erregistroak
- 2 The Paleobiology Database datu-basean3
- Honela ere ezaguna
- Pannoniasaurus (orain animalia bertzat hartzen diren izen zaharragoak)3
- Aurkikuntza
- Pannoniasaurus was named in 2012 by László Makádi, Michael Caldwell, and Attila Ősi from fossils found in a bauxite mine in Hungary.13
- Oraindik eztabaidagai
- Scientists are still debating whether Pannoniasaurus had paddle-like limbs or more lizard-like legs.1
Datuak nondik datozen
- The First Freshwater Mosasauroid (Upper Cretaceous, Hungary) and a New Clade of Basal Mosasauroids | PLOS One (journals.plos.org)
- Pannoniasaurus (en.wikipedia.org)
- Pannoniasaurus in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): adina, tokiak, arroka-formazioak, sailkapena.
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