Muraenosaurus
Muraenosaurus was a plesiosaur with a very long neck and a tiny head. It swam in warm, shallow seas during the Jurassic Period. Its name means 'eel lizard' because its neck looked like an eel's body.1
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Muraenosaurus had 44 bones in its neck, which made up most of its 66 backbone bones before the hips.1
Its head was only about 37 centimeters (15 inches) long, very small compared to its 5.2-meter (17-foot) body.1
The first Muraenosaurus fossil was collected by Charles E. Leeds and described by Harry Seeley in 1874.1
Muraenosaurus lived in a warm, shallow sea that was less than 50 meters deep and about 20 °C (68 °F).1
Scientists think Muraenosaurus may have swallowed stones called gastroliths to help grind up food or to stop it from rolling in the water.1
Muraenosaurus was first thought to be an elasmosaur, but now scientists place it in the family Cryptoclididae.1

Ebibuuzo ebisinga okubuuzibwa ku Muraenosaurus
?How long was Muraenosaurus?
About 5.2 metres (17 feet) long.1
?What did Muraenosaurus eat?
It probably ate fish and cephalopods (like squid). Scientists think it may have swallowed stones to help grind up its food.1
?Could Muraenosaurus swim?
Yes, it was a marine reptile that swam in warm, shallow seas. Its long neck and flippers helped it move through the water.1
Omumenyi w'enfumo
Enfumo: Some people think Muraenosaurus was a dinosaur.
Amazima: Muraenosaurus was a plesiosaur, a marine reptile that lived in the sea, not a dinosaur.1
Eri abakugu mu dayinoso
- Erinnya lya ssaayansi
- Muraenosaurus
- Yatuumibwa
- Seeley 18742
- Ekibinja
- Pulesiyosawulu
- Ekika / ekibinja
- Cryptoclididae2
- Engabanya
- Plesiosauria > Sauropterygia2
- Emyaka gy'enjazi
- emyaka obukadde 165 okutuuka ku 155 (Callovian / Oxfordian)2
- Ensengeka z'enjazi
- Oxford Clay, Lajas, Argiles de Montaubert2
- Ensi
- Bungereza, Arigentina, Bufalansa2
- Ebisigalira ebyazuulibwa
- 11 mu The Paleobiology Database2
- Era emanyiddwa nga
- Tremamesacleis (amannya ag'edda kati gabalibwa ng'ekisolo kye kimu)2
- Okuzuulibwa
- The first Muraenosaurus fossil was found by Charles E. Leeds in the Oxford Clay of England. Harry Seeley named it Muraenosaurus leedsii in 1874.1
- Kikyakubaganyizibwako ebirowoozo
- Scientists are not sure exactly how Muraenosaurus used its long neck to catch food. It may have attacked fish from below or grazed on the seafloor.1
Ebituufu gye biva
- Muraenosaurus (en.wikipedia.org)
- Muraenosaurus in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): emyaka, ebifo, ensengeka z'enjazi, engabanya.
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