Anningasaura
Anningasaura was an early plesiosaur, a marine reptile that swam in the Jurassic seas. It had a long neck, a small head, and flippers like paddles. This creature lived about 200 million years ago, when dinosaurs roamed the land.13
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Datos curiosos
Anningasaura is known from only one fossil, a skull and some neck bones from a young plesiosaur.1
The name Anningasaura honors Mary Anning, a famous fossil hunter who discovered many Jurassic marine reptiles in England.1
This plesiosaur had special features in its skull, like a thick platform on its upper jaw and extra holes in its skull bones.1
Anningasaura lived during the Early Jurassic, between 201 and 184 million years ago.3
Scientists think Anningasaura was a very early plesiosaur, not as advanced as later ones like Plesiosaurus.1

As preguntas máis frecuentes sobre Anningasaura
?Was Anningasaura a dinosaur?
No, Anningasaura was a plesiosaur, a marine reptile that lived in the sea, not a dinosaur.1
?How big was Anningasaura?
Nobody knows for sure because only a skull and neck bones from a young plesiosaur have been found, so its full size is unknown.1
?What did Anningasaura eat?
Scientists do not know exactly, but as a plesiosaur it likely ate fish and other small sea creatures.1
?When did Anningasaura live?
Anningasaura lived during the Early Jurassic, about 201 to 199 million years ago.1
Para expertos en dinos
- Nome científico
- Anningasaura
- Bautizado por
- Vincent and Benson 20123
- Grupo
- Plesiosauros
- Familia / clado
- Rhomaleosauridae3
- Clasificación
- Plesiosauria > Sauropterygia3
- Idade das rochas
- de 201 a 184 millóns de anos (Hettangian / Pliensbachian)3
- Países
- Reino Unido3
- Rexistros fósiles
- 1 na Paleobiology Database3
- Descubrimento
- Anningasaura was named in 2012 by paleontologists Peggy Vincent and Roger Benson. The only fossil was found in Lyme Regis, England, and was first thought to be a different plesiosaur called 'Plesiosaurus' macrocephalus.12
- Aínda en debate
- Scientists are still debating exactly where Anningasaura fits on the plesiosaur family tree, because it has a mix of ancient and unique features.1
De onde veñen os datos
- Anningasaura (en.wikipedia.org)
- Anningasaura, new plesiosaur from UK (dml.reptilis.net)
- Anningasaura in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): idade, lugares, formacións rochosas, clasificación.
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