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Wahlisaurus

Il num vul dir: “Wahl's lizard”1

Mangiava: CharnIctiosaursGiurassic temprivTecnicamain betg in dinosaur

Wahlisaurus was a dolphin-like marine reptile that swam in the seas of Early Jurassic England. It had a very long, slender snout and an overbite, like a swordfish. It was not a dinosaur, but a type of ichthyosaur.1 2

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 201 fin 200 milliuns onns3

Giurassic tempriv

Fossils chattads en

Nottinghamshire, England, UK1 3

Spertadad maximala

var 46 km/h (29 mph)

Nudar, stima

Cura viveva el?

Triassic

Giurassic

Cretacic

avant 252 milliuns onns20114566, l'asteroid

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)

Wahlisaurus var 46 km/h (29 mph)

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

In gepard var 100 km/h (62 mph)

chaussas cool

Fatgs divertents

Wahlisaurus had a very unusual shoulder bone called a coracoid, which had a large hole in it. This hole is rarely seen in ichthyosaurs.2

The first Wahlisaurus fossil was discovered by a man named Percy Faulkes, who donated it to a museum when he died in 1951.1

Wahlisaurus is named after two scientists: William Wahl and Judy Massare, who both studied ancient marine reptiles.1

Only two specimens of Wahlisaurus have ever been found. The second one was discovered in 1996 but not identified until 2018.1

Wahlisaurus lived during the Hettangian age, about 201 to 199 million years ago, right after a big extinction event.3

Its snout was extremely slender and delicate, and its lower jaw was shorter than its upper jaw, giving it an overbite.2

Maletg da Wahlisaurus fatg cun IA — In maletg fatg cun IA che mussa co Wahlisaurus 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: Wahlisaurus
Numnà da: Lomax 20173
Gruppa: Ictiosaurs
Famiglia / clada: Leptonectidae3
Classificaziun: Ichthyosauria > Ichthyosauromorpha3
Vegliadetgna da la crappa: 201 fin 200 milliuns onns (Hettangian)3
Formaziuns da crap: Scunthorpe Mudstone3
Pajais: Reginavel Unì3
Chats da fossils: 1 en The Paleobiology Database3
Scuverta: Wahlisaurus was named and described by paleontologist Dean Lomax in 2016. The first fossil, a partial skull and skeleton, was found in Nottinghamshire, England, and had been sitting in a museum collection since 1951.1 2
Anc discutà: Scientists are not sure exactly how big Wahlisaurus grew, because only incomplete skeletons have been found.1

Danunder che vegnan ils fatgs

Wahlisaurus (en.wikipedia.org)
A new leptonectid ichthyosaur from the Lower Jurassic (Hettangian) of Nottinghamshire, England, UK, and the taxonomic usefulness of the ichthyosaurian coracoid: Journal of Systematic Palaeontology: Vol 15, No 5 (tandfonline.com)
Wahlisaurus in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): vegliadetgna, lieus, formaziuns da crap, classificaziun.

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