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

Para expertos en dinos
- Nome científico
- Hudsonelpidia
- Bautizado por
- McGowan 19952
- Grupo
- Ictiosauros
- Familia / clado
- Parvipelvia2
- Clasificación
- Ichthyosauria > Ichthyosauromorpha2
- Idade das rochas
- de 227 a 206 millóns de anos (Norian)2
- Países
- Canadá2
- Rexistros fósiles
- 2 na Paleobiology Database2
- Descubrimento
- Hudsonelpidia was named by paleontologist Chris McGowan in 1995, based on fossils found in British Columbia, Canada.1
- Aínda en debate
- Scientists are not sure exactly how Hudsonelpidia is related to other ichthyosaurs, as different studies place it in different families.1
De onde veñen os datos
- PBDB Taxon (paleobiodb.org)
- Hudsonelpidia in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): idade, lugares, formacións rochosas, clasificación.
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