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Wunyelfia

Il num vul dir: “from Wüñelfe, the Mapuche name for the planet Venus, a symbol of freedom”1

Mangiava: CharnPlesiosaursCretacic tardivTecnicamain betg in dinosaur

Wunyelfia was a long-necked marine reptile that swam in the ocean near Chile about 66 million years ago. It was not a dinosaur, but a plesiosaur, a fierce hunter of the sea.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 72 fin 66 milliuns onns4

Cretacic tardiv

Fossils chattads en

Chile, in the Quiriquina Formation1 3

Spertadad maximala

var 27 km/h (17 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)

Wunyelfia var 27 km/h (17 mph)

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

In gepard var 100 km/h (62 mph)

chaussas cool

Fatgs divertents

Wunyelfia is known from a nearly adult skeleton, including neck bones, back bones, and parts of the shoulders and hips.3

Its neck bones have special features that show it belongs to a group called aristonectines, known for very long necks.3

Wunyelfia lived in the Weddellian Province, a cold ocean region near Antarctica during the Late Cretaceous.3

The name Wunyelfia comes from the Mapuche word for Venus, the planet, and also a symbol of freedom.1

Wunyelfia is the second aristonectine plesiosaur found in the southeastern Pacific from the late Maastrichtian.3

Its fossils are about 72 to 66 million years old, from the very end of the Age of Dinosaurs.2

Maletg da Wunyelfia fatg cun IA — In maletg fatg cun IA che mussa co Wunyelfia 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.

Chatschader da mitus

Mitus: Some people think Wunyelfia was a dinosaur.

Vardad: Wunyelfia was a plesiosaur, a marine reptile, not a dinosaur.1

Per experts da dinos

Num scientific: Wunyelfia
Numnà da: Otero and Soto-Acuña 20214
Gruppa: Plesiosaurs
Famiglia / clada: Elasmosauridae4
Classificaziun: Plesiosauria > Elasmosauridae > Sauropterygia4
Vegliadetgna da la crappa: 72 fin 66 milliuns onns (Maastrichtian)4
Formaziuns da crap: Quiriquina4
Pajais: Chile4
Chats da fossils: 1 en The Paleobiology Database4
Scuverta: Wunyelfia was named by Rodrigo A. Otero and Sergio Soto-Acuña in 2021, based on a partial skeleton found in central Chile.3 1
Anc discutà: Scientists are still debating exactly how Wunyelfia is related to other aristonectines, because its neck bones are a bit different.3

Danunder che vegnan ils fatgs

Wunyelfia (en.wikipedia.org)
PBDB Taxon (paleobiodb.org)
Wunyelfia maulensis gen. et sp. nov., a new basal aristonectine (Plesiosauria, Elasmosauridae) from the Upper Cretaceous of central Chile - ADS (ui.adsabs.harvard.edu)
Wunyelfia in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): vegliadetgna, lieus, formaziuns da crap, classificaziun.

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