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Selmasaurus

Nkombo elingi koloba: “Selma lizard, after the Selma Group of rocks in Alabama”1
Alyaki: MosuniBamozazoreKretase ya nsukaNa siansi, dinozore mpenza te

Selmasaurus was a small, fierce marine lizard that lived in the shallow seas of North America during the time of the dinosaurs. It had a stiff skull that could not stretch like other mosasaurs, so it ate smaller prey. Two species are known, one from Alabama and one from Kansas.1

Likambo ya kosepelisa: reptile oyo ya mbu azalaki kobeta mai ntango badinozore bazalaki kotambola na mabele. Bato nyonso babengaka bango badino, kasi bazalaki libota mosusu ya bareptile.
Azalaki na bomoi
mbula milio 86 kino 72 eleki2
Kretase ya nsuka
Bafosile emonanaki na
Alabama and Kansas, USA21
Bolai
3 kino 5 m (9,8 kino 16 ft)1
Mbangu ya likolo
pene na 38 km/h (24 mph)
Kobeta mai, kokanisa

Azalaki na bomoi ntango nini?

Triasiki
Jurasiki
Kretase
Mbula milio 252 eleki20114566, asteroide

Azalaki monene boni?

Azalaki molai boni?

Selmasaurus pene na 5 m bolai (16 ft)Velo ya moto mokolo pene na 1,8 m (5,9 ft)Motuka pene na 4,5 m (15 ft)Nzoku, nyama oyo aleki monene na mabele lelo pene na 6,5 m (21 ft)
molai lokola bambwa 5 zolo kino mokilamolai lokola matoko 28 oyo balandaniakokaki kobeta mai bolai ya pisine monene (50 m) na sekonde 4,7

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Azalaki na mbangu boni?

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Selmasaurus had the fewest teeth of any known mosasaur, making it unusual among its relatives.1

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Unlike most mosasaurs, Selmasaurus could not widen its jaws to swallow big prey. Its skull was stiff and did not have the flexible joints that other mosasaurs used to eat large animals.1

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The first Selmasaurus fossil was a skull found in Alabama, but for many years no one knew exactly which rock layer it came from. In 1998, scientists used tiny fossils from the skull to figure out its age.1

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One species, Selmasaurus johnsoni, was discovered by a family in Kansas in 1996 and donated to a museum. Its skull is one of the most complete mosasaur skulls ever found.1

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Selmasaurus lived about 86 to 80 million years ago, during the Late Cretaceous period.1

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Stable isotope studies suggest that Selmasaurus johnsoni sometimes swam in deeper, open ocean waters, not just near the shore like many other plioplatecarpines.1

Esalemi na AIElilingi ya Selmasaurus esalemi na AI
Elilingi esalemi na AI oyo ezali kolakisa ndenge Selmasaurus akokaki kozala. Ordinatere esalaki yango na makambo oyo bato ya siansi bayebi. Ezali kaka kokanisa: nyama ya solo akokaki kozala ndenge mosusu, mpe moto moko te ayebi balangi na ye ya solo.
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Mituna oyo batunaka mingi na ntina na Selmasaurus

?How big was Selmasaurus?

Selmasaurus was a small mosasaur, about 3 to 5 metres (10 to 16 feet) long.1

?What did Selmasaurus eat?

Selmasaurus was a predator that ate smaller prey. Because its skull could not stretch open wide, it could not swallow large animals like other mosasaurs.1

?Is Selmasaurus a dinosaur?

No, Selmasaurus is not a dinosaur. It is a marine lizard called a mosasaur that lived in the sea during the time of the dinosaurs.1

Mpo na bayebi ya badino

Nkombo ya siansi
Selmasaurus
Nkombo epesamaki na
Wright and Shannon 19882
Lisanga
Bamozazore
Libota / klade
Mosasauridae2
Klasifikasio
Mosasauroidea2
Mbula ya mabanga
mbula milio 86 kino 72 (Santonian / Campanian)2
Milongo ya mabanga
Mooreville Chalk, Niobrara2
Bikolo
Amerika2
Bafosile oyo ekomami
2 na The Paleobiology Database2
Ntango bamonaki yango
Selmasaurus was first named in 1988 by Kenneth Wright and Samuel Shannon, based on a skull found in Alabama. The species S. russelli was named after paleontologist Dale Russell. A second species, S. johnsoni, was discovered in Kansas in 1996 and named in 2008.1
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Scientists are still debating exactly how Selmasaurus is related to other mosasaurs. Some think it is closely related to Ectenosaurus, while others place it in a group called Selmasaurini with Gavialimimus and Goronyosaurus.1

Esika makambo euti

  1. Selmasaurus (en.wikipedia.org)
  2. Selmasaurus in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): mbula, bisika, milongo ya mabanga, klasifikasio.

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