Brancasaurus
Brancasaurus was a plesiosaur, a long-necked marine reptile that lived in a freshwater lake. It had a small head and a long tail, and swam with four flippers like paddles.1
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Brancasaurus lived in a huge freshwater lake, not the ocean. The lake was sometimes connected to the sea.1
Its neck bones had tall, shark-fin-shaped spines on top, which is unusual for plesiosaurs.1
The first fossil was found by workers digging clay with pickaxes in 1910. They accidentally broke the hip bone into 176 pieces.1
Brancasaurus was about 3.26 metres (10.7 feet) long as a subadult. Adults may have been a bit bigger.1
Another plesiosaur named Gronausaurus wegneri is now thought to be the same as Brancasaurus, just a different growth stage.12
Brancasaurus shared its lake with sharks, crocodiles, turtles, and many kinds of fish.1

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?Was Brancasaurus a dinosaur?
No, Brancasaurus was a plesiosaur, a type of marine reptile that lived in the time of the dinosaurs, but it was not a dinosaur itself.13
?How big was Brancasaurus?
The most complete fossil, a subadult, was about 3.26 metres (10.7 feet) long. Adults may have been a bit bigger.143
Ogeeyyii daayinootiif
- Maqaa saayinsii
- Brancasaurus
- Kan maqaa baase
- Wegner 19145
- Garee
- Pileesiyoosaroota
- Maatii / kilaadii
- Leptocleididae5
- Ramaddii
- Plesiosauria > Sauropterygia5
- Umurii dhagaawwanii
- waggaa miliyoona 139 hanga 137 (Berriasian)5
- Caasaawwan dhagaa
- Bückeberg5
- Biyyoota
- Jarmanii5
- Galmee fosilii
- 1 The Paleobiology Database keessa5
- Argannoo
- Brancasaurus was named by Theodor Wegner in 1914. He named it after the paleontologist Wilhelm von Branca. The first skeleton was found in a clay pit near Gronau, Germany in 1910.1
- Ammallee falmisiisaa
- Scientists are not sure whether Brancasaurus belongs to the elasmosaurid family or the leptocleidid family. Different studies give different answers.12
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- Brancasaurus (en.wikipedia.org)
- Reappraisal of Europe's most complete Early Cretaceous plesiosaurian: Brancasaurus brancai Wegner, 1914 from the "Wealden facies" of Germany (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
- Brancasaurus Facts for Kids (kids.kiddle.co)
- Reappraisal of Europe’s most complete Early Cretaceous plesiosaurian: Brancasaurus brancai Wegner, 1914 from the “Wealden facies” of Germany [PeerJ] (peerj.com)
- Brancasaurus in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): umurii, bakkeewwan, caasaawwan dhagaa, ramaddii.
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