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Aphrosaurus

Il num vul dir: “sea foam lizard”1

Mangiava: CharnPlesiosaursCretacic tardivTecnicamain betg in dinosaur

Aphrosaurus was a long-necked marine reptile that swam in the Pacific Ocean near California near the end of the age of dinosaurs. It was a plesiosaur, not a dinosaur, and it glided through the water like a slow, graceful sea monster.1

Fatg divertent: quest reptil da mar nudava, entant ch'ils dinosaurs chaminavan sin terra. Tuts als numnan dinos, ma els eran in'autra rama dals reptils.

Viveva

avant 72 fin 66 milliuns onns4

Cretacic tardiv

Fossils chattads en

Moreno Formation, Fresno County, California, USA1 2

Lunghezza

10 m (33 ft)3

Spertadad maximala

var 22 km/h (14 mph)

Nudar, stima

Cura viveva el?

Triassic

Giurassic

Cretacic

avant 252 milliuns onns20114566, l'asteroid

Quant grond era el?

Quant lung era el?

uschè lung sco 2 autos parcads in suenter l'auteruschè lung sco 56 bananas ina suenter l'autrapudess nudar la lunghezza d'ina gronda piscina (50 m) en 8,2 secundas

Quant grond era Aphrosaurus cumpareglià cun TAI?

Mo matematica en tes navigatur. Nagut na vegn arcunà u tramess.

Quant spert era el?

Ina persuna che va a pe var 5 km/h (3 mph)

In uffant sin il velo var 12 km/h (7 mph)

Aphrosaurus var 22 km/h (14 mph)

In chaval che galoppescha var 65 km/h (40 mph)

In gepard var 100 km/h (62 mph)

chaussas cool

Fatgs divertents

Aphrosaurus lived about 70 to 66 million years ago, during the very end of the Cretaceous Period.1 2

Its name comes from Greek words meaning 'sea foam lizard'.1

The only known fossil was found in 1939 by a rancher named Frank C. Piava.1

Aphrosaurus had a deep groove on the underside of its neck bones that helped scientists tell it apart from other plesiosaurs.1

Scientists think Aphrosaurus was a slow swimmer that glided long distances, like a flying bird but underwater.1

It shared its ocean home with other plesiosaurs like Morenosaurus, Fresnosaurus, and Hydrotherosaurus, as well as many mosasaurs and sea turtles.1

Maletg da Aphrosaurus fatg cun IA — In maletg fatg cun IA che mussa co Aphrosaurus pudess avair guardà ora, fatg d'in computer tenor quai che la scienza sa. I sa tracta d'ina supposiziun: l'animal vair ha forsa guardà ora auter, e sias colurs vairas èn nunenconuschentas.

Per experts da dinos

Num scientific: Aphrosaurus
Numnà da: Welles 19434
Gruppa: Plesiosaurs
Famiglia / clada: Elasmosauridae4
Classificaziun: Plesiosauria > Elasmosauridae > Sauropterygia4
Vegliadetgna da la crappa: 72 fin 66 milliuns onns (Maastrichtian)4
Formaziuns da crap: Moreno4
Pajais: USA4
Chats da fossils: 1 en The Paleobiology Database4
Scuverta: Samuel Welles named Aphrosaurus in 1943 based on a partial skeleton found in the Moreno Formation of California. The species name furlongi honors Eustace Furlong, a field assistant and fossil preparator at the University of California, Berkeley.1
Anc discutà: Scientists are not sure exactly how big Aphrosaurus grew, because only one partial skeleton has been found.1

Danunder che vegnan ils fatgs

Aphrosaurus (en.wikipedia.org)
PBDB Taxon (paleobiodb.org)
Aphrosaurus (prehistoric-wildlife.com)
Aphrosaurus in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): vegliadetgna, lieus, formaziuns da crap, classificaziun.

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