Hauffiopteryx
Hauffiopteryx was a small, fast-swimming marine reptile that lived in the Early Jurassic seas. It looked a bit like a dolphin but was actually an ichthyosaur, a group of ocean-dwelling reptiles. With its long snout and big eyes, it was a skilled hunter of fish and squid.21
E phetse neng?
E ne e le kgolo hakae?
E ne e le telele hakae?
telele jwaloka dintja tse 3 ho tloha nkong ho isa mohatleng๐telele jwaloka dibanana tse 17 di behilwe ka mola๐e ne e ka sesa bolelele ba letamo le leholo la ho sesa (50 m) ka metsotswana e 3.8Hauffiopteryx e ne e le kgolo hakae ha e bapiswa le WENA?
Ke dipalo feela ho browser ya hao. Ha ho letho le bolokwang kapa le romelwang kae kapa kae.
E ne e le lebelo hakae?
Dintlha tse monate
Hauffiopteryx had a very short snout compared to other ichthyosaurs, and its upper jaw stuck out a little bit past the lower jaw.1
Its belly ribs (gastralia) were extra long, reaching all the way to the 35th vertebra in its backbone, which is unique among ichthyosaurs from the same time.1
The holes on top of its skull (the temporal fenestrae) were small and round, unlike the larger openings in its relative Stenopterygius.1
Scientists think Hauffiopteryx might have had a special diet or hunting style because it only appears in rocks from a short time during the Early Jurassic, when the ocean had less oxygen.1
No one has ever found a baby Hauffiopteryx or any food remains inside its stomach, so how it grew and what it ate is still a mystery.1
Hauffiopteryx was first thought to be a type of Stenopterygius, but in 2008 scientists gave it its own genus because of its unique hip bones and other features.1

Mosenyi wa ditshomo
Tshomo: Hauffiopteryx is a dinosaur.
Nnete: Hauffiopteryx is an ichthyosaur, a marine reptile that lived in the sea, not a dinosaur. Dinosaurs lived on land.2
Bakeng sa ditsebi tsa didinosaure
- Lebitso la saense
- Hauffiopteryx
- E rehilwe ke
- Maisch 20082
- Sehlopha
- Diikhthiosaure
- Lelapa / leloko
- Neoichthyosauria2
- Tlhophiso
- Ichthyosauria > Ichthyosauromorpha2
- Dilemo tsa mafika
- dilemo tse dimilione tse 184 ho isa ho 183 (Toarcian)2
- Dibopeho tsa mafika
- Beacon Limstone2
- Dinaha
- United Kingdom2
- Direkoto tsa difosili
- 1 ho The Paleobiology Database2
- Ho sibollwa
- Hauffiopteryx was named by Michael W. Maisch in 2008. He studied fossils that had been found in Germany and England and realized they belonged to a new genus.21
- E sa ntse e phehwa kgang
- Scientists are not sure exactly what Hauffiopteryx ate or how it hunted, because no stomach contents have been found.1
Moo dintlha di tswang teng
- Revision of Hauffiopteryx (palaeo-electronica.org)
- Hauffiopteryx in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): dilemo, dibaka, dibopeho tsa mafika, tlhophiso.
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