Carentonosaurus
Carentonosaurus was a marine lizard that swam in warm, shallow seas during the time of the dinosaurs. It had a strange, heavy backbone that made it extra dense, like a living anchor in the water.1
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E ne e le lebelo hakae?
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Carentonosaurus had very thick, heavy bones in its back, a condition called pachyostosis, which helped it stay underwater without floating up.1
Its neck bones were not thickened, only the back bones were pachyostotic, which is unusual among marine lizards.1
This lizard lived about 100 to 94 million years ago, during the Cenomanian stage of the Cretaceous Period.3
Carentonosaurus fossils have been found in France, Portugal, and Spain, showing it lived in the warm Tethys Sea.2
It is part of a group called aigialosaurs, which are close relatives of the giant mosasaurs.3
The first fossils were discovered in western France, in rocks that were once a shallow, warm sea near a coast.1

Bakeng sa ditsebi tsa didinosaure
- Lebitso la saense
- Carentonosaurus
- E rehilwe ke
- Rage and Néraudeau 20043
- Sehlopha
- Dimosasaure
- Lelapa / leloko
- Aigialosauridae3
- Tlhophiso
- Mosasauroidea3
- Dilemo tsa mafika
- dilemo tse dimilione tse 100 ho isa ho 94 (Cenomanian)3
- Dibopeho tsa mafika
- La Cabaña, B3/C1, Tentúgal3
- Dinaha
- Fora, Sepania, Portugal3
- Direkoto tsa difosili
- 8 ho The Paleobiology Database3
- E boetse e tsejwa e le
- Carentonosaurus (mabitso a kgale jwale a balwa e le phoofolo e le nngwe)3
- Ho sibollwa
- Carentonosaurus was named by paleontologists Jean-Claude Rage and Didier Néraudeau in 2004, based on fossils found in the Charente region of France.31
- E sa ntse e phehwa kgang
- Scientists are not sure if Carentonosaurus lived only in the early part of the Late Cretaceous or if it also appeared in the early Cenomanian.1
Moo dintlha di tswang teng
- A new pachyostotic squamate reptile from the Cenomanian of France (exa.ai)
- PBDB Taxon (paleobiodb.org)
- Carentonosaurus in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): dilemo, dibaka, dibopeho tsa mafika, tlhophiso.
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