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Unktaheela

Dzina limatanthauza: “from the Lakota word for a mythical water creature”1

Ankadya: NyamaMaplesiosauriKumapeto kwa KretaseKwenikweni si dainoso

Unktaheela was a small, fast-swimming marine reptile that lived in the sea that once covered North America. It had a short neck, a big head with a long snout, and four flippers that worked like paddles. It was one of the smallest plesiosaurs ever found.2

Mfundo yosangalatsa: chokwawa cha m'nyanja ichi chinkasambira pamene madainoso ankayenda pamtunda. Aliyense amazitcha madino, koma zinali nthambi ina ya zokwawa.

Ankakhala

zaka 84 mpaka 72 miliyoni zapitazo3

Kumapeto kwa Kretase

Mafosili apezeka ku

Wyoming and South Dakota, USA3 1

Utali

2.3 mpaka 2.6 m (7.5 mpaka 8.5 ft)2

Liwiro lalikulu kwambiri

pafupifupi 27 km/h (17 mph)

Kusambira, kuyerekeza

Ankakhala liti?

Triasiki

Jurasiki

Kretase

Zaka 252 miliyoni zapitazo20114566, asteroidi

Anali wamkulu bwanji?

Anali wautali bwanji?

wautali ngati agalu 2.5 otsatizana mphuno ndi mchirawautali ngati nthochi 14 zotsatizanaakanatha kusambira utali wa dziwe lalikulu losambira (50 m) m'masekondi 6.7

Unktaheela anali wamkulu bwanji poyerekeza ndi IWEYO?

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

Anali ndi liwiro lotani?

Munthu akuyenda pafupifupi 5 km/h (3 mph)

Mwana pa njinga pafupifupi 12 km/h (7 mph)

Unktaheela pafupifupi 27 km/h (17 mph)

Hatchi ikuthamanga pafupifupi 65 km/h (40 mph)

Kakwiyo pafupifupi 100 km/h (62 mph)

zinthu zosangalatsa

Mfundo zosangalatsa

Unktaheela is the smallest known adult polycotylid plesiosaur, measuring only about 2.3 to 2.6 metres long.2

It had bony ledges over its large eyes that may have shaded them from sunlight, like built-in sunglasses.2

Its skull was wide at the back and short behind the eyes, which helped it spot and catch prey.2

Unktaheela lived about 80 million years ago in the Western Interior Seaway, a shallow sea that split North America in two.2

Scientists think Unktaheela was a visual pursuit predator, meaning it chased its food using its sharp eyesight.2

The first fossil of Unktaheela was found in 1975 near Redbird, Wyoming, but it was not named until 2024.1 2

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

Kwa akatswiri a madino

Dzina la sayansi: Unktaheela
Anapatsidwa dzina ndi: Clark et al. 20243
Gulu: Maplesiosauri
Banja / kladi: Polycotylidae3
Magawidwe a sayansi: Plesiosauria > Sauropterygia3
Zaka za miyala: zaka 84 mpaka 72 miliyoni (Campanian)3
Mapangidwe a miyala: Sharon Springs3
Mayiko: Amereka3
Zolemba za mafosili: 2 mu The Paleobiology Database3
Kupezeka: Unktaheela was named in 2024 by Robert O. Clark, F. Robin O'Keefe, and Sara E. Slack based on two fossils from Wyoming and South Dakota.3 1
Akukambiranabe: Scientists are still debating exactly how Unktaheela used its unusual eye ledges and wide skull to hunt.2

Kumene mfundo zimachokera

Unktaheela (en.wikipedia.org)
A new genus of small polycotylid plesiosaur from the Upper Cretaceous of the Western Interior Seaway and a clarification of the genus Dolichorhynchops (sciencedirect.com)
Unktaheela in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): zaka, malo, mapangidwe a miyala, magawidwe a sayansi.

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