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

As preguntas máis frecuentes sobre Pannoniasaurus
?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
Cazamitos
Mito: All mosasaurs lived only in the ocean.
Verdade: Pannoniasaurus shows that some mosasaurs lived in freshwater rivers and lakes.1
Para expertos en dinos
- Nome científico
- Pannoniasaurus
- Bautizado por
- Makádi et al. 20123
- Grupo
- Mosasauros
- Familia / clado
- Tethysaurinae3
- Clasificación
- Mosasauroidea3
- Idade das rochas
- de 86 a 84 millóns de anos (Santonian)3
- Formacións rochosas
- Csehbánya, Ajka Coal3
- Países
- Hungría3
- Rexistros fósiles
- 2 na Paleobiology Database3
- Tamén coñecido como
- Pannoniasaurus (nomes antigos que agora contan como o mesmo animal)3
- Descubrimento
- Pannoniasaurus was named in 2012 by László Makádi, Michael Caldwell, and Attila Ősi from fossils found in a bauxite mine in Hungary.13
- Aínda en debate
- Scientists are still debating whether Pannoniasaurus had paddle-like limbs or more lizard-like legs.1
De onde veñen os datos
- 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): idade, lugares, formacións rochosas, clasificación.
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