Quasianosteosaurus
Quasianosteosaurus was an ancient marine reptile that swam in the seas long before dinosaurs ruled the land. It had a huge skull, almost 50 centimetres long, making it one of the biggest early ichthyosaurs known.12
Ankakhala liti?
Anali ndi liwiro lotani?
Mfundo zosangalatsa
Quasianosteosaurus is known from only one partial skull, which is mostly a natural cast with very little original bone left.1
Its name means 'almost boneless lizard' because the fossil skull is almost just an impression in the rock.1
This ichthyosaur lived about 248 to 247 million years ago, during the Early Triassic period.3
The skull of Quasianosteosaurus is the largest Early Triassic ichthyosaur skull ever found, measuring about 50 centimetres (20 inches) long.12
It was a close relative of other early ichthyosaurs like Parvinatator, but different enough to be placed in its own family, Quasianosteosauridae.12
The fossil was found in the Sticky Keep Formation on Mount Viking in Spitsbergen, Norway.1
Early Triassic ichthyosaurs like Quasianosteosaurus show that these marine reptiles evolved and diversified very quickly after the great Permian extinction.2

Kwa akatswiri a madino
- Dzina la sayansi
- Quasianosteosaurus
- Anapatsidwa dzina ndi
- Maisch and Matzke 20034
- Gulu
- Maikitiosauri
- Banja / kladi
- Quasianosteosauridae4
- Magawidwe a sayansi
- Ichthyosauria > Ichthyosauromorpha4
- Zaka za miyala
- zaka 249 mpaka 247 miliyoni ()4
- Mapangidwe a miyala
- Sticky Keep4
- Mayiko
- Svalbard4
- Zolemba za mafosili
- 1 mu The Paleobiology Database4
- Kupezeka
- Quasianosteosaurus was named by Michael Werner Maisch and Andreas Theodor Matzke in 2003, based on a partial skull found on Mount Viking in Spitsbergen, Norway.1
- Akukambiranabe
- Scientists are not sure exactly how big the whole animal was, because only its skull has been found.1
Kumene mfundo zimachokera
- Quasianosteosaurus (en.wikipedia.org)
- Observations on Triassic ichthyosaurs. Part XII. A new Early Triassic ichthyosaur genus from Spitzbergen - Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen Band 229 Heft 3, Schweizerbart science publishers (schweizerbart.de)
- PBDB Taxon (paleobiodb.org)
- Quasianosteosaurus in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): zaka, malo, mapangidwe a miyala, magawidwe a sayansi.
Mfundo iliyonse patsamba lino ili ndi nambala yosonyeza kumene yachokera. Ngati talakwitsa kanthu, pepa, ndife okonda madino, osati magazini ya sayansi. Tiuze pa [email protected] ndipo tikonza.
Rex ali ndi njala! Dino Wiki ndi ntchito ya bambo kwa mwana wawo wamwamuna wokonda madainoso, yaulere popanda zotsatsa ndi zokazonda. Akuluakulu angadyetse Rex zokhwasula-khwasula kuti tsambali lipitirize kupezeka pa intaneti.Dyetsa Rex