Vegasaurus
Vegasaurus was a long-necked marine reptile that swam in the cold seas near Antarctica about 72 million years ago. It was not a dinosaur, but a plesiosaur, and it used its four flippers to paddle through the water. This ancient creature is one of the few Late Cretaceous plesiosaurs from the Southern Hemisphere whose skeleton is well known.21
Ankakhala liti?
Anali wamkulu bwanji?
Anali wautali bwanji?
Ankalemera bwanji?
wautali ngati agalu 6 otsatizana mphuno ndi mchira๐wautali ngati nthochi 36 zotsatizana๐wolemera ngati mavwende 170๐งธwolemera ngati ana a sukulu ya mkaka 44๐wolemera ngati ana a sukulu 26๐akanatha kusambira utali wa dziwe lalikulu losambira (50 m) m'masekondi 6.7Vegasaurus anali wamkulu bwanji poyerekeza ndi IWEYO?
Ndi masamu chabe mu msakatuli wako. Palibe chimene chimasungidwa kapena kutumizidwa kwina kulikonse.
Anali ndi liwiro lotani?
Mfundo zosangalatsa
Vegasaurus had 54 neck vertebrae, which is more than most other plesiosaurs.1
The only known fossil of Vegasaurus was found in 1989 by a team of scientists on Vega Island, Antarctica.1
This plesiosaur had gastroliths, or stomach stones, which may have helped it digest food or control its buoyancy.1
Vegasaurus is named after Vega Island, where it was discovered, and the Greek word for lizard, 'sauros'.1
Its humerus (upper arm bone) had a forward-facing knee and a backward projection with an extra joint surface, a feature only shared with a few other plesiosaurs.1

Mafunso ofunsidwa kwambiri okhudza Vegasaurus
?How big was Vegasaurus?
About 6.15 to 6.5 metres long and weighed around 839 kilograms.1
?What did Vegasaurus eat?
Scientists are not sure exactly what it ate, but it had gastroliths (stomach stones) that may have helped grind up food like fish or squid.1
?Where was Vegasaurus found?
Its only fossil was found on Vega Island, near the Antarctic Peninsula, in 1989.1
Kwa akatswiri a madino
- Dzina la sayansi
- Vegasaurus
- Anapatsidwa dzina ndi
- O'Gorman et al. 20153
- Gulu
- Maplesiosauri
- Banja / kladi
- Elasmosauridae3
- Magawidwe a sayansi
- Plesiosauria > Elasmosauridae > Sauropterygia3
- Zaka za miyala
- zaka 72 mpaka 66 miliyoni (Maastrichtian)3
- Mapangidwe a miyala
- Snow Hill Island3
- Mayiko
- Antakitika3
- Zolemba za mafosili
- 1 mu The Paleobiology Database3
- Kupezeka
- Vegasaurus was named in 2015 by Josรฉ P. O'Gorman and colleagues. The only fossil was found in 1989 on Vega Island, Antarctica, and was collected during three Antarctic summer expeditions in 1993, 1999, and 2005.1
- Akukambiranabe
- Scientists are still debating exactly how Vegasaurus is related to other plesiosaurs, especially the aristonectines.21
Kumene mfundo zimachokera
- Vegasaurus (en.wikipedia.org)
- Vegasaurus molyi, gen. et sp. nov. (Plesiosauria, Elasmosauridae), from the Cape Lamb Member (lower maastrichtian) of the Snow Hill Island Formation, Vega Island, Antarctica, and remarks on Wedellian Elasmosauridae: Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology: Vol 35 , No 3 - Get Access (tandfonline.com)
- Vegasaurus in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): zaka, malo, mapangidwe a miyala, magawidwe a sayansi.
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