Cimoliasaurus
Cimoliasaurus was a long-necked marine reptile that swam in the seas during the time of the dinosaurs. It was not a dinosaur, but a plesiosaur, a type of ancient sea creature. With its strong flippers, it glided through the water hunting for fish and other prey.14
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ndende nk'imbwa 8 zikurikiranye๐ndende nk'imineke 42 ikurikiranye๐iremereye nk'imbuto 200 za watermelon๐งธiremereye nk'abana 53 bo mu ishuri ry'incuke๐iremereye nk'abanyeshuri 31๐ปโโ๏ธiremereye nk'idubu 2 zo mu rubura๐yashoboraga koga uburebure bwa pisine nini (50 m) mu masegonda 6,7Cimoliasaurus yanganaga ite ugereranyije NAWE?
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Utuntu dushimishije
The name Cimoliasaurus means 'white chalk lizard' because its fossils were found in rocks that look like the white chalk of England.1
Cimoliasaurus lived during the Late Cretaceous period, about 70 to 66 million years ago.1
The first fossils of Cimoliasaurus were vertebrae (back bones) found in New Jersey in 1851.1
Cimoliasaurus belongs to the family Elasmosauridae, which includes some of the longest-necked plesiosaurs.1
A possible Cimoliasaurus vertebra was found by a schoolboy named Colin McEwen during a field trip in Maryland in 1988.1
Some scientists once thought Cimoliasaurus was a different kind of reptile, but now they agree it is an elasmosaurid plesiosaur.1

Ibibazo bibazwa cyane kuri Cimoliasaurus
?What did Cimoliasaurus eat?
It was an aquatic carnivore, meaning it ate meat like fish and other sea creatures.4
?How big was Cimoliasaurus?
Nobody knows for sure because only vertebrae and teeth have been found. The vertebrae range from 2.5 to 10 cm long, so it was a medium-sized plesiosaur.3
?Where was Cimoliasaurus found?
Its fossils have been found in New Jersey, North Carolina, and Maryland in the United States.1
Ku bazobereye muri dinozore
- Izina rya siyansi
- Cimoliasaurus
- Yiswe na
- Leidy 18514
- Itsinda
- Plesiyozore
- Umuryango / ishami
- Elasmosauridae4
- Ishyirwa mu byiciro
- Plesiosauria > Elasmosauridae > Sauropterygia4
- Imyaka y'amabuye
- imyaka miliyoni 155 kugeza 66 (Kimmeridgian / Maastrichtian)4
- Inzego z'amabuye
- Navesink, Severn, Eagle Ford4
- Ibihugu
- Amerika, Ubwongereza, Kanada, Ositaraliya, Shili, Cekiya4
- Ibisigazwa byanditswe
- 18 muri The Paleobiology Database4
- Izwi kandi ku izina rya
- Hunosaurus, Iserosaurus (amazina ya kera ubu abarwa nk'inyamaswa imwe)4
- Ivumburwa
- Cimoliasaurus was named by the American paleontologist Joseph Leidy in 1851. He described it from a set of neck vertebrae found in greensand deposits in Burlington County, New Jersey.1
- Biracyagibwaho impaka
- Scientists are not sure exactly how big Cimoliasaurus was, because only a few bones have been found so far.1
Aho amakuru yakuwe
- Cimoliasaurus (en.wikipedia.org)
- Cimoliasaurus | Dinopedia (dinosciencecenter.com)
- Plesiosaur, Cimoliasaurus magnus (fossilsofnj.com)
- Cimoliasaurus in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): imyaka, ahantu, inzego z'amabuye, ishyirwa mu byiciro.
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