Diandongosaurus
Diandongosaurus was a small marine reptile that swam in the warm seas of China during the Triassic Period. It had a long body and sharp teeth for catching fish. It was only about as long as a ruler!12
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E ne e le kgolo hakae?
E ne e le telele hakae?
Diandongosaurus e ne e le kgolo hakae ha e bapiswa le WENA?
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E ne e le lebelo hakae?
Dintlha tse monate
Diandongosaurus had a snout that was not pinched, and the part of its skull in front of the eye was longer than the part behind the eye.2
Its skull had a small opening on top (the supratemporal fenestra) that was smaller than its eye socket.2
The bones that form the forehead (frontals) and the top of the skull (parietals) were fused together into single pieces.2
Its collar bone (clavicle) had a forward-pointing projection, which is unusual.2
The toe bones (ungual phalanxes) of its hind feet were extremely flattened from top to bottom, possibly helping it paddle.2
The only known complete skeleton of Diandongosaurus was found in a famous fossil site called the Guanling Formation, which preserves many Triassic sea creatures.1

Mosenyi wa ditshomo
Tshomo: Some people might think Diandongosaurus was a dinosaur because it lived long ago and had a long tail.
Nnete: Diandongosaurus was not a dinosaur. It was a marine reptile called an eosauropterygian, a group that includes ancestors of plesiosaurs.1
Bakeng sa ditsebi tsa didinosaure
- Lebitso la saense
- Diandongosaurus
- E rehilwe ke
- Shang et al. 20113
- Sehlopha
- Dihahabi tsa lewatle
- Lelapa / leloko
- Eosauropterygia3
- Tlhophiso
- Sauropterygia3
- Dilemo tsa mafika
- dilemo tse dimilione tse 244 ho isa ho 243 ()3
- Dibopeho tsa mafika
- Guanling3
- Dinaha
- Tjhaena3
- Direkoto tsa difosili
- 1 ho The Paleobiology Database3
- Ho sibollwa
- Diandongosaurus was named in 2011 by Chinese paleontologists Qing-Hua Shang, Xiao-Chun Wu, and Chun Li. They described it from a complete, articulated skeleton found in the Guanling Formation of Yunnan Province.12
- E sa ntse e phehwa kgang
- Scientists are not sure exactly how Diandongosaurus is related to other marine reptiles. Some studies suggest it might be a close cousin of both nothosaurs and pachypleurosaurs, but its exact place in the family tree is still debated.2
Moo dintlha di tswang teng
- Diandongosaurus (en.wikipedia.org)
- A new eosauropterygian from Middle Triassic of eastern Yunnan Province, southwestern China (vertpala.ac.cn)
- Diandongosaurus in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): dilemo, dibaka, dibopeho tsa mafika, tlhophiso.
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