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Zarafasaura

Zita rinoreva: “giraffe lizard of the sea”1
Raidya: NyamaMapresiosauroCretaceous YekupedzisiraHarisi dhinosori chaizvo

Zarafasaura was a plesiosaur, a marine reptile that swam in the warm seas of the Late Cretaceous. It was a small elasmosaur, about as long as a car, and it used its long neck to snap up fish and squid.1

Chokwadi chinonakidza: chinokambaira ichi chemugungwa chaishambira madhinosori achifamba panyika. Munhu wese anozviti madhino, asi zvaiva bazi rakasiyana rezvinokambaira.
Raivapo
makore mamiriyoni 72 kusvika 66 apfuura3
Cretaceous Yekupedzisira
Mafosiri akawanikwa:
Ouled Abdoun Basin, Morocco1
Kureba
3 kusvika 4 m (9.8 kusvika 13 ft)1
Huremu
90 kg kusvika 110 kg (198 kusvika 243 lb)1
Kumhanya kwepamusoro
kunenge 27 km/h (17 mph)
Kushambira, fungidziro

Rairarama rini?

Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
makore mamiriyoni 252 apfuura20114566, dombo guru rakabva mudenga

Raiva hombe sei?

Raiva refu zvakadii?

Zarafasaura kureba kunenge 4 m (13 ft)Bhasikoro remunhu mukuru kunenge 1.8 m (5.9 ft)Motokari kunenge 4.5 m (15 ft)Nzou, mhuka hombe kupfuura dzose dzepanyika nhasi kunenge 6.5 m (21 ft)

Rairema zvakadii?

kurema seimbwa 6
kureba seimbwa 4 kubva pamhino kusvika kumuswekureba semabhanana 22 akatevedzanakurema semanwiwa 22kurema sevana vekireshi 6kurema sevana vechikoro 3raigona kushambira kureba kwedziva guru rekushambira (50 m) mumasekonzi 6.7

Zarafasaura raiva hombe sei kana richienzaniswa NEWE?

Masvomhu chete mubrowser yako. Hapana chinochengetwa kana kutumirwa kupi zvako.

Raimhanya zvakadii?

zvinhu zvinonakidza

Zvinonakidza

1

Zarafasaura means 'giraffe lizard' in Arabic, because local people thought the long-necked fossils looked like giraffes.1

2

It was a small plesiosaur, only about 3 to 4 metres long, much smaller than its giant cousins like Elasmosaurus.1

3

The first fossil of Zarafasaura was just a skull and jaw, found in phosphate mines in Morocco.1

4

In 2013, a more complete skeleton was discovered, showing its flippers and backbone for the first time.1

5

Zarafasaura lived about 72 to 66 million years ago, right at the end of the Age of Dinosaurs.2

6

A specimen of Zarafasaura was almost sold at auction in Paris for โ‚ฌ450,000, but the sale was stopped and it was sent back to Morocco.1

Zvakagadzirwa neAIMufananidzo wakagadzirwa neAI: Zarafasaura
Mufananidzo wakagadzirwa neAI unoratidza kuti Zarafasaura ringangodai raitaridzika sei, wakagadzirwa nekombiyuta kubva pane zvinozivikanwa nemasayendisiti. Ifungidziro chete: mhuka chaiyo ingangodai yaitaridzika zvakasiyana, uye hapana anoziva mavara ayo chaiwo.
wakabvunza

Mibvunzo inonyanya kubvunzwa nezve Zarafasaura

?Was Zarafasaura a dinosaur?

No, Zarafasaura was a plesiosaur, a marine reptile that lived in the sea, not a dinosaur.1

?How big was Zarafasaura?

About 3 to 4 metres long and weighed roughly 100 kilograms, about the size of a large dog.1

?What did Zarafasaura eat?

It likely ate fish and squid, using its long neck to snap them up in the warm Cretaceous seas.1

?Where was Zarafasaura found?

Its fossils were discovered in phosphate mines in the Ouled Abdoun Basin of Morocco, North Africa.1

Zvevanyanzvi vemadhino

Zita resainzi
Zarafasaura
Akaripa zita:
Vincent et al. 20113
Boka
Mapresiosauro
Mhuri / boka
Elasmosauridae3
Kurongwa kwemhuka
Plesiosauria > Elasmosauridae > Sauropterygia3
Zera rematombo
makore mamiriyoni 72 kusvika 66 (Maastrichtian)3
Mapoka ematombo
Couche III3
Nyika
Morocco3
Zvinyorwa zvemafosiri
1 mu The Paleobiology Database3
Kuwanikwa
Zarafasaura was named in 2011 by a team of scientists led by Peggy Vincent. The first fossil, a skull and jaw, was found in the phosphate mines of the Ouled Abdoun Basin in Morocco.1
Zvichiri kupokanwa
Scientists are still debating exactly how Zarafasaura is related to other plesiosaurs, and whether it had any special features in its flippers or body.1

Kunobva chokwadi

  1. Zarafasaura (en.wikipedia.org)
  2. PBDB Taxon (paleobiodb.org)
  3. Zarafasaura in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): zera, nzvimbo, mapoka ematombo, kurongwa kwemhuka.

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