Muraenosaurus
Muraenosaurus was a plesiosaur with a very long neck and a tiny head. It swam in warm, shallow seas during the Jurassic Period. Its name means 'eel lizard' because its neck looked like an eel's body.1
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Muraenosaurus had 44 bones in its neck, which made up most of its 66 backbone bones before the hips.1
Its head was only about 37 centimeters (15 inches) long, very small compared to its 5.2-meter (17-foot) body.1
The first Muraenosaurus fossil was collected by Charles E. Leeds and described by Harry Seeley in 1874.1
Muraenosaurus lived in a warm, shallow sea that was less than 50 meters deep and about 20 °C (68 °F).1
Scientists think Muraenosaurus may have swallowed stones called gastroliths to help grind up food or to stop it from rolling in the water.1
Muraenosaurus was first thought to be an elasmosaur, but now scientists place it in the family Cryptoclididae.1

Ibibazo bibazwa cyane kuri Muraenosaurus
?How long was Muraenosaurus?
About 5.2 metres (17 feet) long.1
?What did Muraenosaurus eat?
It probably ate fish and cephalopods (like squid). Scientists think it may have swallowed stones to help grind up its food.1
?Could Muraenosaurus swim?
Yes, it was a marine reptile that swam in warm, shallow seas. Its long neck and flippers helped it move through the water.1
Gusenya ibinyoma
Ibivugwa: Some people think Muraenosaurus was a dinosaur.
Ukuri: Muraenosaurus was a plesiosaur, a marine reptile that lived in the sea, not a dinosaur.1
Ku bazobereye muri dinozore
- Izina rya siyansi
- Muraenosaurus
- Yiswe na
- Seeley 18742
- Itsinda
- Plesiyozore
- Umuryango / ishami
- Cryptoclididae2
- Ishyirwa mu byiciro
- Plesiosauria > Sauropterygia2
- Imyaka y'amabuye
- imyaka miliyoni 165 kugeza 155 (Callovian / Oxfordian)2
- Inzego z'amabuye
- Oxford Clay, Lajas, Argiles de Montaubert2
- Ibihugu
- Ubwongereza, Arijantine, Ubufaransa2
- Ibisigazwa byanditswe
- 11 muri The Paleobiology Database2
- Izwi kandi ku izina rya
- Tremamesacleis (amazina ya kera ubu abarwa nk'inyamaswa imwe)2
- Ivumburwa
- The first Muraenosaurus fossil was found by Charles E. Leeds in the Oxford Clay of England. Harry Seeley named it Muraenosaurus leedsii in 1874.1
- Biracyagibwaho impaka
- Scientists are not sure exactly how Muraenosaurus used its long neck to catch food. It may have attacked fish from below or grazed on the seafloor.1
Aho amakuru yakuwe
- Muraenosaurus (en.wikipedia.org)
- Muraenosaurus in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): imyaka, ahantu, inzego z'amabuye, ishyirwa mu byiciro.
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