Cimoliasaurus
Cimoliasaurus was a long-necked marine reptile that swam in the seas during the time of the dinosaurs. It was not a dinosaur, but a plesiosaur, a type of ancient sea creature. With its strong flippers, it glided through the water hunting for fish and other prey.14
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akka saree 8 funyaan hanga eegeetti dheeraa๐akka muuzii 42 walitti hiriiran dheeraa๐akka habxuu 200 ulfaata๐งธakka ijoollee KG 53 ulfaata๐akka ijoollee mana barumsaa 31 ulfaata๐ปโโ๏ธakka beeraa adii 2 ulfaata๐dheerina bishaan daakaa guddaa (50 m) sekondii 6.7 keessatti daakuu danda'aSI wajjin yoo wal bira qabamu, Cimoliasaurus hammam guddaa ture?
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The name Cimoliasaurus means 'white chalk lizard' because its fossils were found in rocks that look like the white chalk of England.1
Cimoliasaurus lived during the Late Cretaceous period, about 70 to 66 million years ago.1
The first fossils of Cimoliasaurus were vertebrae (back bones) found in New Jersey in 1851.1
Cimoliasaurus belongs to the family Elasmosauridae, which includes some of the longest-necked plesiosaurs.1
A possible Cimoliasaurus vertebra was found by a schoolboy named Colin McEwen during a field trip in Maryland in 1988.1
Some scientists once thought Cimoliasaurus was a different kind of reptile, but now they agree it is an elasmosaurid plesiosaur.1

Gaaffiiwwan waa'ee Cimoliasaurus baay'ee gaafataman
?What did Cimoliasaurus eat?
It was an aquatic carnivore, meaning it ate meat like fish and other sea creatures.4
?How big was Cimoliasaurus?
Nobody knows for sure because only vertebrae and teeth have been found. The vertebrae range from 2.5 to 10 cm long, so it was a medium-sized plesiosaur.3
?Where was Cimoliasaurus found?
Its fossils have been found in New Jersey, North Carolina, and Maryland in the United States.1
Ogeeyyii daayinootiif
- Maqaa saayinsii
- Cimoliasaurus
- Kan maqaa baase
- Leidy 18514
- Garee
- Pileesiyoosaroota
- Maatii / kilaadii
- Elasmosauridae4
- Ramaddii
- Plesiosauria > Elasmosauridae > Sauropterygia4
- Umurii dhagaawwanii
- waggaa miliyoona 155 hanga 66 (Kimmeridgian / Maastrichtian)4
- Caasaawwan dhagaa
- Navesink, Severn, Eagle Ford4
- Biyyoota
- Ameerikaa, Biriteen, Kanaadaa, Awustiraaliyaa, Chiilee, Cheekiyaa4
- Galmee fosilii
- 18 The Paleobiology Database keessa4
- Maqaan biraa
- Hunosaurus, Iserosaurus (maqaawwan durii amma akka bineensa tokkootti lakkaa'amu)4
- Argannoo
- Cimoliasaurus was named by the American paleontologist Joseph Leidy in 1851. He described it from a set of neck vertebrae found in greensand deposits in Burlington County, New Jersey.1
- Ammallee falmisiisaa
- Scientists are not sure exactly how big Cimoliasaurus was, because only a few bones have been found so far.1
Odeeffannoon eessaa dhufa
- Cimoliasaurus (en.wikipedia.org)
- Cimoliasaurus | Dinopedia (dinosciencecenter.com)
- Plesiosaur, Cimoliasaurus magnus (fossilsofnj.com)
- Cimoliasaurus in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): umurii, bakkeewwan, caasaawwan dhagaa, ramaddii.
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