Glyphoderma

Erinnya litegeeza: “sculptured skin”1

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Glyphoderma was a strange, armored reptile that swam in the seas of China during the Middle Triassic. It had a hard shell made of hundreds of bony plates, like a turtle, but it was actually a placodont, a cousin of the long-necked plesiosaurs.1

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Yabeerawo

emyaka obukadde 241 okutuuka ku 237 emabega3

Amakkati ga Tiriyasi

Ebisigalira byazuulibwa mu

Fuyuan, Yunnan Province, China3 1

Obuwanvu

0.873 m (2.9 ft)1

Sipiidi esinga

nga 5 km/h (3 mph)

Okuwuga, kuteebereza

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Tiriyasi

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Kuretasi

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Glyphoderma's shell was made of more than 400 separate bony plates, called osteoderms, that fit together like a puzzle.1

It had three large, cone-shaped bumps fused to the back of its skull, which no other placodont had.1 2

Glyphoderma is the only known placodont from the Ladinian age of the Middle Triassic in its family, Placochelyidae.2

Its name means 'sculptured skin' because of the deep grooves and ridges on its shell plates.1

The first fossil of Glyphoderma was found in a thick block of limestone, so scientists cannot see its belly very well.1

Glyphoderma had a very strong skull because most of its skull bones were fused together.1

Ekifaananyi kya Glyphoderma 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.

Eri abakugu mu dayinoso

Erinnya lya ssaayansi: Glyphoderma
Yatuumibwa: Zhao et al. 20083
Ekibinja: Ebyewalula eby'omu nnyanja
Ekika / ekibinja: Placochelyidae3
Engabanya: Placodontia > Sauropterygia3
Emyaka gy'enjazi: emyaka obukadde 241 okutuuka ku 237 (Ladinian)3
Ensengeka z'enjazi: Falang3
Ensi: Cayina3
Ebisigalira ebyazuulibwa: 1 mu The Paleobiology Database3
Okuzuulibwa: Glyphoderma was named in 2008 by Zhao Lijun and colleagues based on a nearly complete skeleton found in Fuyuan, Yunnan, China. The species name G. kangi honors Mr. Kang Ximin.3 1
Kikyakubaganyizibwako ebirowoozo: Scientists are still debating exactly how Glyphoderma swam and moved, because its flattened body and heavy shell were very different from other marine reptiles.1

Ebituufu gye biva

Glyphoderma (en.wikipedia.org)
A NEW ARMORED PLACODONT FROM THE MIDDLE TRIASSIC OF YUNNAN PROVINCE, SOUTHWESTERN CHINA (vertpala.ac.cn)
Glyphoderma in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): emyaka, ebifo, ensengeka z'enjazi, engabanya.

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