Opallionectes
Opallionectes was a plesiosaur, a long-necked marine reptile that swam in the seas near Australia. It had needle-sharp teeth and ate fish and squid. Its bones were turned into opal, a shiny gemstone!1
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Mfundo zosangalatsa
Opallionectes lived about 115 million years ago in a cold, possibly freezing sea.1
Its skeleton was found in an opal mine and parts of it turned into opal, a precious gemstone.1
It had fine, needle-like teeth that were flattened side to side, similar to ancient nothosaurs.1
Opallionectes is considered a missing link between older plesiosaurs from 165 million years ago and those from 66 million years ago.1
Scientists think it might have migrated to warmer waters or had a high metabolism to survive the cold.1

Kwa akatswiri a madino
- Dzina la sayansi
- Opallionectes
- Anapatsidwa dzina ndi
- Kear 20063
- Gulu
- Maplesiosauri
- Banja / kladi
- Plesiosauroidea3
- Magawidwe a sayansi
- Plesiosauria > Sauropterygia3
- Zaka za miyala
- zaka 120 mpaka 113 miliyoni (Aptian)3
- Mapangidwe a miyala
- Bulldog Shale3
- Mayiko
- Australia3
- Zolemba za mafosili
- 1 mu The Paleobiology Database3
- Kupezeka
- The species Opallionectes andamookaensis was named by Benjamin P. Kear in 2006, based on a partial opalized skeleton found in an opal mine at Andamooka, South Australia.13
- Akukambiranabe
- Scientists are not sure exactly how Opallionectes adapted to the cold waters it lived in, whether by migrating or by having a higher body temperature.1
Kumene mfundo zimachokera
- Opallionectes (en.wikipedia.org)
- PBDB Taxon (paleobiodb.org)
- Opallionectes in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): zaka, malo, mapangidwe a miyala, magawidwe a sayansi.
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