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Kawanectes

Dzina limatanthauza: “Kawas swimmer”1
Ankadya: NyamaMaplesiosauriKumapeto kwa KretaseKwenikweni si dainoso

Kawanectes was a small marine reptile with a long neck that lived in the seas of Patagonia near the end of the Age of Dinosaurs. It was an elasmosaurid plesiosaur, but much smaller than its giant relatives, only about as long as a small car.1

Mfundo yosangalatsa: chokwawa cha m'nyanja ichi chinkasambira pamene madainoso ankayenda pamtunda. Aliyense amazitcha madino, koma zinali nthambi ina ya zokwawa.
Ankakhala
zaka 72 mpaka 66 miliyoni zapitazo3
Kumapeto kwa Kretase
Mafosili apezeka ku
Argentina, in the Allen Formation and La Colonia Formation of Patagonia12
Utali
3.8 mpaka 4.2 m (12 mpaka 14 ft)1
Liwiro lalikulu kwambiri
pafupifupi 29 km/h (18 mph)
Kusambira, kuyerekeza

Ankakhala liti?

Triasiki
Jurasiki
Kretase
Zaka 252 miliyoni zapitazo20114566, asteroidi

Anali wamkulu bwanji?

Anali wautali bwanji?

Kawanectes utali wa pafupifupi 4.2 m (14 ft)Njinga ya munthu wamkulu pafupifupi 1.8 m (5.9 ft)Galimoto pafupifupi 4.5 m (15 ft)Njovu, nyama yaikulu kwambiri pamtunda masiku ano pafupifupi 6.5 m (21 ft)
wautali ngati agalu 4 otsatizana mphuno ndi mchirawautali ngati nthochi 23 zotsatizanaakanatha kusambira utali wa dziwe lalikulu losambira (50 m) m'masekondi 6.2

Kawanectes anali wamkulu bwanji poyerekeza ndi IWEYO?

Ndi masamu chabe mu msakatuli wako. Palibe chimene chimasungidwa kapena kutumizidwa kwina kulikonse.

Anali ndi liwiro lotani?

zinthu zosangalatsa

Mfundo zosangalatsa

1

Kawanectes is one of the smallest elasmosaurids ever found, with an adult body length of only 3.8 to 4.2 metres (12 to 14 feet).1

2

Its name comes from the Kawas Sea, an ancient ocean that covered Patagonia during the Late Cretaceous.1

3

One specimen of Kawanectes was found with 389 gastroliths, or stomach stones, which may have helped it digest food or control buoyancy.1

4

Kawanectes had a high humerus-to-femur length ratio of about 1.2, meaning its upper arm bone was longer than its thigh bone, which is unusual among elasmosaurids.1

5

Scientists think Kawanectes may have been sexually dimorphic, with females possibly larger than males.1

6

Kawanectes lived in a marginal marine environment, probably an estuary, not the open ocean, and it was smaller than open-ocean plesiosaurs.1

Chopangidwa ndi AIChithunzi cha Kawanectes chopangidwa ndi AI
Chithunzi cha momwe Kawanectes mwina ankaonekera, chopangidwa ndi kompyuta kuchokera pa zomwe asayansi amadziwa. Ndi kungoyerekeza: nyama yeniyeniyo mwina inkaoneka mosiyana, ndipo palibe amene akudziwa mitundu yake yeniyeni.
mwafunsa

Mafunso ofunsidwa kwambiri okhudza Kawanectes

?How big was Kawanectes?

Kawanectes was about 3.8 to 4.2 metres (12 to 14 feet) long as an adult, which is small for an elasmosaurid.12

?What did Kawanectes eat?

Kawanectes likely ate small marine animals, and its jaw shape suggests it could snap its jaws shut quickly for fast bites, but not with a strong bite force.2

?Where did Kawanectes live?

Kawanectes lived in the seas of Patagonia, in what is now Argentina, during the Late Cretaceous, in a coastal or estuarine environment.12

?Was Kawanectes a dinosaur?

No, Kawanectes was a plesiosaur, a marine reptile, not a dinosaur.1

Kwa akatswiri a madino

Dzina la sayansi
Kawanectes
Anapatsidwa dzina ndi
O'Gorman 20163
Gulu
Maplesiosauri
Banja / kladi
Elasmosauridae3
Magawidwe a sayansi
Plesiosauria > Elasmosauridae > Sauropterygia3
Zaka za miyala
zaka 72 mpaka 66 miliyoni (Maastrichtian)3
Mapangidwe a miyala
La Colonia, Allen3
Mayiko
Argentina3
Zolemba za mafosili
8 mu The Paleobiology Database3
Kupezeka
Kawanectes was first named as a species of Trinacromerum in 1985 by Gasparini and Goñi, but in 2016 José P. O'Gorman gave it its own genus, Kawanectes, based on new fossils.1
Akukambiranabe
Scientists are not sure exactly how many neck and tail vertebrae Kawanectes had, because the known fossils are incomplete.1

Kumene mfundo zimachokera

  1. Kawanectes (en.wikipedia.org)
  2. First record of Kawanectes lafquenianum (Plesiosauria, Elasmosauridae) from the La Colonia Formation of Argentina, with comments on the mandibular morphology of elasmosaurids: Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology: Vol 44 , No 1 - Get Access (tandfonline.com)
  3. Kawanectes in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): zaka, malo, mapangidwe a miyala, magawidwe a sayansi.

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