Chensaurus
Chensaurus was an early ichthyosaur, a marine reptile that swam in the seas during the Triassic Period. It had a long, narrow body and a small tail fin, and it moved through the water like an eel. It was not a dinosaur, but a distant relative of lizards and snakes.1
E phetse neng?
E ne e le kgolo hakae?
E ne e le telele hakae?
E ne e le boima hakae?
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Dintlha tse monate
Chensaurus is one of the oldest known ichthyosaurs, living about 250 million years ago.4
It had a long, narrow body and a small caudal fin, which suggests it swam like an eel, not like a fish.1
Chensaurus had a high number of vertebrae in its body, which helped it move in a wavy, eel-like way.1
It is considered an evolutionary intermediate between land reptiles and later, more fish-like ichthyosaurs.1
The name Chensaurus was given in 1991, but some scientists think it is the same as another ichthyosaur called Chaohusaurus.2

Dipotso tse botswang haholo ka Chensaurus
?How big was Chensaurus?
Chensaurus was small, about 0.7 to 1 metre (2.3 to 3.3 feet) long and weighed 1.3 to 3.1 kilograms (2.9 to 6.8 pounds).3
?What did Chensaurus eat?
Chensaurus was a carnivore that ate meat, probably shellfish and small sea creatures. Its back teeth were bulbous for crushing shells.3
?When did Chensaurus live?
Chensaurus lived during the Early Triassic Period, about 250 million years ago.3
?Is Chensaurus a dinosaur?
No, Chensaurus is not a dinosaur. It is an ichthyosaur, a marine reptile that is a distant relative of lizards and snakes.3
Mosenyi wa ditshomo
Tshomo: Chensaurus was a dinosaur.
Nnete: Chensaurus was an ichthyosaur, a marine reptile, not a dinosaur. Ichthyosaurs lived in the sea and were more closely related to lizards and snakes.1
Bakeng sa ditsebi tsa didinosaure
- Lebitso la saense
- Chensaurus
- E rehilwe ke
- Mazin Suteethora et al. 19914
- Sehlopha
- Diikhthiosaure
- Lelapa / leloko
- Grippiidae4
- Tlhophiso
- Ichthyosauria > Ichthyosauromorpha4
- Dilemo tsa mafika
- dilemo tse dimilione tse 251 ho isa ho 237 ()4
- Dinaha
- Tjhaena4
- Direkoto tsa difosili
- 9 ho The Paleobiology Database4
- Ho sibollwa
- Chensaurus was named by Mazin Suteethora and colleagues in 1991. The fossils were found in Anhui Province, China.44
- E sa ntse e phehwa kgang
- Scientists debate whether Chensaurus is a separate genus or just a younger name for Chaohusaurus, because the fossils are very similar.2
Moo dintlha di tswang teng
- Eel-like swimming in the earliest ichthyosaurs - ADS (ui.adsabs.harvard.edu)
- PBDB Taxon (paleobiodb.org)
- Chaohusaurus (en.wikipedia.org)
- Chensaurus in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): dilemo, dibaka, dibopeho tsa mafika, tlhophiso.
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