Aphrosaurus

Erinnya litegeeza: “sea foam lizard”1

Yalyanga: EnnyamaPulesiyosawuluEnkomerero ya KuretasiMu butuufu si dayinoso

Aphrosaurus was a long-necked marine reptile that swam in the Pacific Ocean near California near the end of the age of dinosaurs. It was a plesiosaur, not a dinosaur, and it glided through the water like a slow, graceful sea monster.1

Ekyewuunyisa: ekyewalula kino eky'omu nnyanja kyawuganga nga dayinoso zitambula ku lukalu. Buli muntu abiyita dayinoso, naye byali ttabi ddala ery'ebyewalula.

Yabeerawo

emyaka obukadde 72 okutuuka ku 66 emabega4

Enkomerero ya Kuretasi

Ebisigalira byazuulibwa mu

Moreno Formation, Fresno County, California, USA1 2

Obuwanvu

10 m (33 ft)3

Sipiidi esinga

nga 22 km/h (14 mph)

Okuwuga, kuteebereza

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Tiriyasi

Jurasiki

Kuretasi

Emyaka obukadde 252 emabega20114566, asteroyidi

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Omuntu atambula nga 5 km/h (3 mph)

Omwana ku kagaali nga 12 km/h (7 mph)

Aphrosaurus nga 22 km/h (14 mph)

Embalaasi edduka ennyo nga 65 km/h (40 mph)

Cheetah nga 100 km/h (62 mph)

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Aphrosaurus lived about 70 to 66 million years ago, during the very end of the Cretaceous Period.1 2

Its name comes from Greek words meaning 'sea foam lizard'.1

The only known fossil was found in 1939 by a rancher named Frank C. Piava.1

Aphrosaurus had a deep groove on the underside of its neck bones that helped scientists tell it apart from other plesiosaurs.1

Scientists think Aphrosaurus was a slow swimmer that glided long distances, like a flying bird but underwater.1

It shared its ocean home with other plesiosaurs like Morenosaurus, Fresnosaurus, and Hydrotherosaurus, as well as many mosasaurs and sea turtles.1

Ekifaananyi kya Aphrosaurus ekyakolebwa AI, nga kiraga engeri gye yayinza okuba ng'afaanana, ekyakolebwa kompyuta okusinziira ku ebyo bannassaayansi bye bamanyi. Kuteebereza: ekisolo ekyennyini kiyinza okuba nga kyali kifaanana bulala, era tewali amanyi langi zaakyo ez'amazima.

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Erinnya lya ssaayansi: Aphrosaurus
Yatuumibwa: Welles 19434
Ekibinja: Pulesiyosawulu
Ekika / ekibinja: Elasmosauridae4
Engabanya: Plesiosauria > Elasmosauridae > Sauropterygia4
Emyaka gy'enjazi: emyaka obukadde 72 okutuuka ku 66 (Maastrichtian)4
Ensengeka z'enjazi: Moreno4
Ensi: Amerika4
Ebisigalira ebyazuulibwa: 1 mu The Paleobiology Database4
Okuzuulibwa: Samuel Welles named Aphrosaurus in 1943 based on a partial skeleton found in the Moreno Formation of California. The species name furlongi honors Eustace Furlong, a field assistant and fossil preparator at the University of California, Berkeley.1
Kikyakubaganyizibwako ebirowoozo: Scientists are not sure exactly how big Aphrosaurus grew, because only one partial skeleton has been found.1

Ebituufu gye biva

Aphrosaurus (en.wikipedia.org)
PBDB Taxon (paleobiodb.org)
Aphrosaurus (prehistoric-wildlife.com)
Aphrosaurus in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): emyaka, ebifo, ensengeka z'enjazi, engabanya.

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