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Westphaliasaurus

Il num vul dir: “Westphalia lizard”1

Mangiava: CharnPlesiosaursGiurassic temprivTecnicamain betg in dinosaur

Westphaliasaurus was a long-necked marine reptile that swam in the warm, shallow seas of what is now Germany. It was not a dinosaur, but a plesiosaur, a type of sea creature that used four flippers to paddle through the water. Scientists think it was about 4.5 metres long, as long as a small car!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 193 fin 184 milliuns onns3

Giurassic tempriv

Fossils chattads en

Lücking clay pit, Sommersell, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany3 1

Lunghezza

4,5 m (15 ft)1

Spertadad maximala

var 29 km/h (18 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 4 chauns dal nas a la cuauschè lung sco 25 bananas ina suenter l'autrapudess nudar la lunghezza d'ina gronda piscina (50 m) en 6,2 secundas

Quant grond era Westphaliasaurus 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)

Westphaliasaurus var 29 km/h (18 mph)

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

In gepard var 100 km/h (62 mph)

chaussas cool

Fatgs divertents

Westphaliasaurus is known from a nearly complete skeleton, but the skull and about 38% of the upper neck vertebrae are missing.1

It lived during the Early Jurassic Period, about 192 to 184 million years ago.3

The fossil was discovered in 2007 by an amateur paleontologist named Sönke Simonsen.1

Its scientific name, Westphaliasaurus simonsensii, honors the discoverer Sönke Simonsen.1

Westphaliasaurus is one of only three plesiosaurs known from the Pliensbachian stage of the Early Jurassic.2

Maletg da Westphaliasaurus fatg cun IA — In maletg fatg cun IA che mussa co Westphaliasaurus 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: Westphaliasaurus
Numnà da: Schwermann and Sander 20113
Gruppa: Plesiosaurs
Famiglia / clada: Plesiosauroidea3
Classificaziun: Plesiosauria > Sauropterygia3
Vegliadetgna da la crappa: 193 fin 184 milliuns onns (Pliensbachian)3
Pajais: Germania3
Chats da fossils: 1 en The Paleobiology Database3
Scuverta: Westphaliasaurus was found by amateur paleontologist Sönke Simonsen in 2007 at a clay pit in Sommersell, Germany. It was named and described by scientists Leonie Schwermann and Martin Sander in 2011.1
Anc discutà: Scientists are not sure exactly how Westphaliasaurus is related to other plesiosaurs, because its skull is missing.1

Danunder che vegnan ils fatgs

Westphaliasaurus (en.wikipedia.org)
Early-diverging plesiosaurs from the Pliensbachian (Lower Jurassic) of northwestern Germany (pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
Westphaliasaurus in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): vegliadetgna, lieus, formaziuns da crap, classificaziun.

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