Dianopachysaurus
Dianopachysaurus was a tiny marine reptile that swam in warm seas about 245 million years ago. It looked a bit like a modern sea lizard but with a long tail and flippers. This little creature was only as long as a pencil!1
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Datos curiosos
Dianopachysaurus is a pachypleurosaur, a group of small marine reptiles that lived during the Triassic Period.1
Its closest relative is Keichousaurus, another Chinese pachypleurosaur. Both belong to the family Keichousauridae.1
The only fossil found so far is an almost complete skeleton, but the tip of the tail is missing.1
It had 20 neck vertebrae, 19 back vertebrae, 3 hip vertebrae, and at least 17 tail vertebrae.1
Dianopachysaurus lived in the eastern Tethys Ocean, which covered parts of what is now China.1
This reptile helps scientists understand how pachypleurosaurs spread from the eastern Tethys to Europe.1

Para expertos en dinos
- Nome científico
- Dianopachysaurus
- Bautizado por
- Liu et al. 20113
- Grupo
- Réptiles mariños
- Familia / clado
- Keichousauridae3
- Clasificación
- Sauropterygia3
- Idade das rochas
- de 244 a 243 millóns de anos ()3
- Formacións rochosas
- Guanling3
- Países
- China3
- Rexistros fósiles
- 1 na Paleobiology Database3
- Descubrimento
- Dianopachysaurus was named in 2011 by a team of scientists led by Jun Liu. The only fossil was found in the Guanling Formation of Yunnan, China.1
- Aínda en debate
- Scientists are not sure exactly how long the tail was, because the only known fossil is missing its tip.1
De onde veñen os datos
- Dianopachysaurus (en.wikipedia.org)
- PBDB Taxon (paleobiodb.org)
- Dianopachysaurus in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): idade, lugares, formacións rochosas, clasificación.
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