Leninia

Erinnya litegeeza: “named after Vladimir Lenin, because the museum where the fossil is kept is in the Lenin Memorial and Lenin school complex in Ulyanovsk, Russia”1

Yalyanga: EnnyamaIkisiyosawuluEntandikwa ya KuretasiMu butuufu si dayinoso

Leninia was a marine reptile that lived in the Early Cretaceous seas, not a dinosaur. It had huge eyes and probably dove deep to hunt for fish and squid.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 121 okutuuka ku 120 emabega3

Entandikwa ya Kuretasi

Ebisigalira byazuulibwa mu

Kriushi village, on the banks of the Volga River in western Russia1 3

Sipiidi esinga

nga 46 km/h (29 mph)

Okuwuga, kuteebereza

Yabeerawo ddi?

Tiriyasi

Jurasiki

Kuretasi

Emyaka obukadde 252 emabega20114566, asteroyidi

Yali wa mbiro kwenkana wa?

Omuntu atambula nga 5 km/h (3 mph)

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

Leninia nga 46 km/h (29 mph)

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

Cheetah nga 100 km/h (62 mph)

ebintu ebinyuvu

Ebyewuunyisa

Only part of the skull was found, about 45 centimetres (18 inches) long. Scientists think the whole skull was between 65 and 90 centimetres (26 to 35 inches) long.1

Leninia had one of the largest scleral rings (the bony ring that supports the eye) of any ichthyosaur. Only Baptanodon and the giant Temnodontosaurus had bigger ones.1

Its skull bones form a star-shaped pattern, which is why its species name is stellans, meaning 'shining' or 'star-like'.1

Leninia lived about 119 to 113 million years ago, during the Early Cretaceous Period.1

It is one of the latest-living members of the ophthalmosaurine group, which were deep-diving ichthyosaurs with very large eyes.1

The fossil was discovered in 2012 in a limestone nodule on the banks of the Volga River, near the town of Kriushi.1

Ekifaananyi kya Leninia 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: Leninia
Yatuumibwa: Fischer et al. 20133
Ekibinja: Ikisiyosawulu
Ekika / ekibinja: Ophthalmosauridae3
Engabanya: Ichthyosauria > Ichthyosauromorpha3
Emyaka gy'enjazi: emyaka obukadde 121 okutuuka ku 120 (Aptian)3
Ensi: Rwasha3
Ebisigalira ebyazuulibwa: 1 mu The Paleobiology Database3
Okuzuulibwa: Leninia was named in 2013 by Valentin Fischer and colleagues. The only known fossil is a partial skull found in 2012 on the Volga River banks in Russia.1 3
Kikyakubaganyizibwako ebirowoozo: Scientists are not sure exactly how long the whole animal was, because only a piece of the skull has been found.1

Ebituufu gye biva

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

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