Rhaeticosaurus
Rhaeticosaurus was a small, early plesiosaur that swam in the seas of the Late Triassic. It had four flippers shaped like wings and a long neck, and it used its flippers to fly through the water. This marine reptile is one of the oldest plesiosaurs ever found.2
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Rhaeticosaurus is the first plesiosaur skeleton ever found from the Triassic period, showing that plesiosaurs were already around before the Jurassic.2
Its name means 'Rhaetian lizard' because it lived during the Rhaetian age, the last stage of the Triassic.1
Rhaeticosaurus had very short lower arm and leg bones compared to its upper limb bones, with a humerus-to-radius ratio of 3.8 and a femur-to-tibia ratio of 4.3.2
The holotype skeleton was discovered in 2013 by Michael Mertens, a private collector who reported it to authorities.1
Rhaeticosaurus was a basal member of the Pliosauridae, a group of plesiosaurs with large heads and short necks.2
Its teeth had sharp ridges on the enamel, a feature that helped scientists identify it as a plesiosaur.2

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- Izina rya siyansi
- Rhaeticosaurus
- Yiswe na
- Wintrich et al. 20174
- Itsinda
- Plesiyozore
- Umuryango / ishami
- Plesiosauria4
- Ishyirwa mu byiciro
- Plesiosauria > Sauropterygia4
- Imyaka y'amabuye
- imyaka miliyoni 206 kugeza 201 (Rhaetian)4
- Inzego z'amabuye
- Exter4
- Ibihugu
- Ubudage4
- Ibisigazwa byanditswe
- 1 muri The Paleobiology Database4
- Ivumburwa
- Rhaeticosaurus was named in 2017 by Wintrich and colleagues based on a partial skeleton found in 2013 in a clay pit in Germany. The fossil was discovered by Michael Mertens and later prepared for study.13
- Biracyagibwaho impaka
- Scientists are still debating exactly how many neck vertebrae Rhaeticosaurus had, but they estimate at least 37.2
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- Rhaeticosaurus (en.wikipedia.org)
- A Triassic plesiosaurian skeleton and bone histology inform on evolution of a unique body plan (pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
- PBDB Taxon (paleobiodb.org)
- Rhaeticosaurus in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): imyaka, ahantu, inzego z'amabuye, ishyirwa mu byiciro.
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