Wumengosaurus

Il num vul dir: “Wumeng lizard, named after the Wumeng Mountain area in China”1

Mangiava: CharnReptils da marTriassic mesaunTecnicamain betg in dinosaur

Wumengosaurus was a small, long-bodied marine reptile that swam in the warm seas of what is now China during the Triassic Period. It had a long snout full of tiny, sharp teeth and probably hunted for small fish and shrimp. Even though it looked a bit like a dinosaur, it was actually a type of sauropterygian, a group that includes plesiosaurs.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 247 fin 241 milliuns onns4

Triassic mesaun

Fossils chattads en

Guizhou Province, southwestern China1 3

Lunghezza

0,955 fin 1,305 m (3,1 fin 4,3 ft)1

Spertadad maximala

var 12 km/h (7 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 2,5 giats da chasa dal nas a la cuauschè lung sco 7 bananas ina suenter l'autrapudess nudar la lunghezza d'ina gronda piscina (50 m) en 15 secundas

Quant grond era Wumengosaurus 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)

Wumengosaurus var 12 km/h (7 mph)

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

In gepard var 100 km/h (62 mph)

chaussas cool

Fatgs divertents

Wumengosaurus had a very long body with short legs, making it look a bit like a swimming lizard.2

Its jaws were long and pointed, like a pair of tweezers, and held more than 45 tiny teeth.1

Scientists think Wumengosaurus was one of the earliest and most basic members of the eosauropterygian group, which later gave rise to the huge plesiosaurs.1 2

The first fossil of Wumengosaurus was found in the Guanling Formation, a layer of rock that was once the bottom of a shallow sea.1 3

A second species, Wumengosaurus rotundicarpus, was named in 2021 based on a fossil from Panzhou District in Guizhou.1

Wumengosaurus lived about 247 to 241 million years ago, during the Middle Triassic, not long after the biggest mass extinction in Earth's history.1 3

Maletg da Wumengosaurus fatg cun IA — In maletg fatg cun IA che mussa co Wumengosaurus 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: Wumengosaurus
Numnà da: Jiang et al. 20084
Gruppa: Reptils da mar
Famiglia / clada: Eosauropterygia4
Classificaziun: Sauropterygia4
Vegliadetgna da la crappa: 247 fin 241 milliuns onns ()4
Formaziuns da crap: Guanling4
Pajais: China4
Chats da fossils: 2 en The Paleobiology Database4
Scuverta: Wumengosaurus was first described by scientists Jiang, Rieppel, Motani, and others in 2008, based on a fossil skeleton from the Guanling Formation in Guizhou, China.1 3
Anc discutà: Scientists are not sure exactly where Wumengosaurus fits on the family tree. Most studies place it as a basal eosauropterygian, but one study suggested it might be more closely related to ichthyosaurs.1

Danunder che vegnan ils fatgs

Wumengosaurus (en.wikipedia.org)
Ancestral body plan and adaptive radiation of sauropterygian marine reptiles: iScience (cell.com)
PBDB Taxon (paleobiodb.org)
Wumengosaurus in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): vegliadetgna, lieus, formaziuns da crap, classificaziun.

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