Ogmodirus
Ogmodirus was a long-necked marine reptile that swam in the shallow seas of ancient Kansas. It was not a dinosaur, but a fierce hunter of fish and other sea creatures.13
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Azalaki na mbangu boni?
Makambo ya kosepelisa
The first fossil, called KUVP 441, was found in 1909 by C. Boyce in Cloud County, Kansas. It included a pelvis, limb bones, and more than 50 neck vertebrae from a young animal.1
Ogmodirus is known from a juvenile skeleton, so scientists are not sure how big adults could get.1
Some scientists think Ogmodirus belongs to the elasmosaur family, which includes Elasmosaurus, but the fossils are too incomplete to be sure.1
A second species, Ogmodirus ischiadicus, was later moved to a different genus called Styxosaurus.1
The name Ogmodirus means 'swollen shin bone', which refers to a feature of its leg bones.1

Mobuki masapo
Lisapo: Ogmodirus was a dinosaur.
Solo: Ogmodirus was a plesiosaur, a marine reptile, not a dinosaur. Dinosaurs lived on land, while plesiosaurs swam in the ocean.1
Mpo na bayebi ya badino
- Nkombo ya siansi
- Ogmodirus
- Nkombo epesamaki na
- Williston and Moodie 19133
- Lisanga
- Baplezozore
- Libota / klade
- Elasmosauridae3
- Klasifikasio
- Plesiosauria > Elasmosauridae > Sauropterygia3
- Mbula ya mabanga
- mbula milio 94 kino 90 (Turonian)3
- Milongo ya mabanga
- Greenhorn Limestone3
- Bikolo
- Amerika3
- Bafosile oyo ekomami
- 1 na The Paleobiology Database3
- Ntango bamonaki yango
- Ogmodirus was named by Samuel Wendell Williston and Roy Lee Moodie in 1913, based on a fossil found in Kansas in 1909.1
- Naino bazali kowelana
- Scientists debate whether Ogmodirus is a valid genus or a dubious one, because the only known skeleton is incomplete and from a juvenile.12
Esika makambo euti
- Ogmodirus (en.wikipedia.org)
- PBDB Taxon (paleobiodb.org)
- Ogmodirus in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): mbula, bisika, milongo ya mabanga, klasifikasio.
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