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Luopingosaurus

Erinnya litegeeza: “Luoping lizard”1
Yalyanga: EbyennyanjaEbyewalula eby'omu nnyanjaAmakkati ga TiriyasiMu butuufu si dayinoso

Luopingosaurus was a small marine reptile that swam in the seas of China about 244 million years ago. It had a long snout and used suction to catch its food. It was not a dinosaur, but a relative of plesiosaurs.21

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Yabeerawo
emyaka obukadde 244 okutuuka ku 243 emabega3
Amakkati ga Tiriyasi
Ebisigalira byazuulibwa mu
Luoping County, Yunnan Province, China12
Obuwanvu
0.64 m (2.1 ft)2
Sipiidi esinga
nga 5 km/h (3 mph)
Okuwuga, kuteebereza

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Kuretasi
Emyaka obukadde 252 emabega20114566, asteroyidi

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Luopingosaurus obuwanvu nga 0.64 m (2.1 ft)Kkapa ow'awaka nga 0.5 m (1.6 ft)Embwa nga 1 m (3.3 ft)Akagaali k'omukulu nga 1.8 m (5.9 ft)
obuwanvu ng'amenvu 4 nga gaddiriŋŋanayandiwuze obuwanvu bw'ekidiba ekinene (50 m) mu sikonda 36

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1

Luopingosaurus had a very long snout, making up 55% of its skull length. This was unusual for its family, which usually had short snouts.2

2

It had extra finger bones, a condition called hyperphalangy. Its fingers had the formula 2 to 3-5 to 5-3, and its toes had 2 to 3-4 to 6-4.2

3

Luopingosaurus had 21 neck vertebrae and 27 back vertebrae, which is more than other pachypleurosaurids.2

4

It had rod-like hyoid bones in its throat. These bones helped create suction to pull prey into its mouth.2

5

Luopingosaurus lived about 244 million years ago, during the Middle Triassic period. This was about 8 million years after the great end-Permian mass extinction.2

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The only known fossil is a nearly complete skeleton, missing only the tip of the tail. It was found in a slab of limestone.21

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Ekifaananyi kya Luopingosaurus 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.

Omumenyi w'enfumo

Enfumo: Luopingosaurus was a dinosaur.

Amazima: Luopingosaurus was a marine reptile called a pachypleurosaurid, part of the group Sauropterygia. It was not a dinosaur.13

Eri abakugu mu dayinoso

Erinnya lya ssaayansi
Luopingosaurus
Yatuumibwa
Xu et al. 20233
Ekibinja
Ebyewalula eby'omu nnyanja
Ekika / ekibinja
Pachypleurosauridae3
Engabanya
Sauropterygia3
Emyaka gy'enjazi
emyaka obukadde 244 okutuuka ku 243 ()3
Ensengeka z'enjazi
Guanling3
Ensi
Cayina3
Ebisigalira ebyazuulibwa
1 mu The Paleobiology Database3
Okuzuulibwa
The fossil was found in Luoping County, Yunnan, China, in rocks of the Guanling Formation. It was named by Xu and colleagues in 2023.13
Kikyakubaganyizibwako ebirowoozo
Scientists are still debating how Luopingosaurus and other pachypleurosaurids are related to each other and to other marine reptiles. The exact family tree is not fully agreed upon.2

Ebituufu gye biva

  1. Luopingosaurus (en.wikipedia.org)
  2. A new long-snouted marine reptile from the Middle Triassic of China illuminates pachypleurosauroid evolution | Scientific Reports (preview-www.nature.com)
  3. Luopingosaurus in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): emyaka, ebifo, ensengeka z'enjazi, engabanya.

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