Leurospondylus
Leurospondylus was a plesiosaur, a long-necked marine reptile that lived in the Late Cretaceous period. It swam in rivers and estuaries in what is now Alberta, Canada. Scientists think it may have spent its early life in brackish water.1
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The only known fossil of Leurospondylus is a juvenile that was about 2 meters long. Adults may have been much larger.1
Its name means 'smooth vertebra' because its backbone bones were flat and wider than they were long.1
Leurospondylus lived in brackish water (a mix of fresh and salt water) in rivers and estuaries. This is unusual because most plesiosaurs lived in the open ocean.1
When it was first described in 1913, Leurospondylus was thought to be the last known plesiosaur fossil. Its species name 'ultimus' means 'last' in Latin.1
Scientists are not sure which family Leurospondylus belongs to. Its vertebrae look like those of pliosaurs, but its shoulder and hip bones resemble those of elasmosaurids.1

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Ibivugwa: Leurospondylus was a dinosaur.
Ukuri: Leurospondylus was a plesiosaur, a marine reptile that lived in the sea and rivers. Plesiosaurs are not dinosaurs.1
Ku bazobereye muri dinozore
- Izina rya siyansi
- Leurospondylus
- Yiswe na
- Brown 19132
- Itsinda
- Plesiyozore
- Umuryango / ishami
- Elasmosauridae2
- Ishyirwa mu byiciro
- Plesiosauria > Elasmosauridae > Sauropterygia2
- Imyaka y'amabuye
- imyaka miliyoni 72 kugeza 66 (Maastrichtian)2
- Inzego z'amabuye
- Horseshoe Canyon2
- Ibihugu
- Kanada2
- Ibisigazwa byanditswe
- 1 muri The Paleobiology Database2
- Ivumburwa
- Leurospondylus was named by Barnum Brown in 1913 based on a juvenile fossil found in the Horseshoe Canyon Formation of Alberta, Canada.12
- Biracyagibwaho impaka
- Scientists still debate whether Leurospondylus belongs to the family Elasmosauridae or to a different group, because its bones show a mix of features.1
Aho amakuru yakuwe
- Leurospondylus (en.wikipedia.org)
- Leurospondylus in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): imyaka, ahantu, inzego z'amabuye, ishyirwa mu byiciro.
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