Eurycleidus
Eurycleidus was a big, swimming reptile that lived in the sea during the Early Jurassic, about 200 million years ago. It was not a dinosaur, but a plesiosaur with a long body and strong flippers. It used its sharp, needle-like teeth to catch fish.1
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Mfundo zosangalatsa
Eurycleidus had large shoulder bones, which gave it a powerful forward stroke for fast swimming.1
The first fossils were bought by Thomas Hawkins in the early 1830s from a quarry in Street, Somerset, England.1
In 1837, Richard Owen mistakenly thought the fossils came from Lyme Regis, but they actually came from Somerset.1
The species was first named Plesiosaurus arcuatus in 1840, and later renamed Eurycleidus in 1922.1
Some fossils that were once thought to be Eurycleidus were later moved to other genera, like Atychodracon and Lindwurmia.1
Eurycleidus lived in the sea and was an active swimmer, living near the surface.2

Wothetsa nthano zabodza
Nthano: Eurycleidus was a dinosaur.
Zoona: Eurycleidus was a plesiosaur, a marine reptile, not a dinosaur.1
Kwa akatswiri a madino
- Dzina la sayansi
- Eurycleidus
- Anapatsidwa dzina ndi
- Andrews 19222
- Gulu
- Maplesiosauri
- Banja / kladi
- Rhomaleosauridae2
- Magawidwe a sayansi
- Plesiosauria > Sauropterygia2
- Zaka za miyala
- zaka 201 mpaka 184 miliyoni (Hettangian / Pliensbachian)2
- Mapangidwe a miyala
- Blue Lias2
- Mayiko
- United Kingdom2
- Zolemba za mafosili
- 4 mu The Paleobiology Database2
- Kupezeka
- The first fossils were collected by Thomas Hawkins in the early 1830s from a quarry in Street, Somerset, England. Richard Owen named the species Plesiosaurus arcuatus in 1840, and Charles William Andrews renamed it Eurycleidus in 1922.1
- Akukambiranabe
- Scientists still debate exactly which fossils belong to Eurycleidus, because some specimens were later moved to other genera.1
Kumene mfundo zimachokera
- Eurycleidus (en.wikipedia.org)
- Eurycleidus in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): zaka, malo, mapangidwe a miyala, magawidwe a sayansi.
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