Honghesaurus
Honghesaurus was a small, lizard-like marine reptile that swam in the warm Tethys Ocean about 244 million years ago. It had an incredibly long tail, longer than any other pachypleurosaur, which helped it wiggle through the water like a fish.1
E phetse neng?
E ne e le kgolo hakae?
E ne e le telele hakae?
Honghesaurus 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
Honghesaurus had 121 vertebrae in total, including 69 in its tail, making it the longest-tailed pachypleurosaur known.1
Its long trunk and tail gave it an advantage in maneuverability and energy efficiency for swimming with side-to-side movements.1
It had a unique feature: two fossae (small pits) in its retroarticular process, a part of the jaw, which is not seen in any other pachypleurosaur.1
Its tail was mostly laterally compressed because it had only five pairs of caudal ribs, helping it move through water efficiently.1
Honghesaurus had 29 dorsal (back) vertebrae, more than most other pachypleurosaurs, which usually have 25 or fewer.1
It lived in a semi-enclosed sea called the Yangtze Sea, part of the eastern Palaeotethys Ocean, during the Middle Triassic.1

Bakeng sa ditsebi tsa didinosaure
- Lebitso la saense
- Honghesaurus
- E rehilwe ke
- Xu et al. 20222
- Sehlopha
- Dihahabi tsa lewatle
- Lelapa / leloko
- Pachypleurosauridae2
- Tlhophiso
- Sauropterygia2
- Dilemo tsa mafika
- dilemo tse dimilione tse 244 ho isa ho 243 ()2
- Dibopeho tsa mafika
- Guanling2
- Dinaha
- Tjhaena2
- Direkoto tsa difosili
- 1 ho The Paleobiology Database2
- Ho sibollwa
- The fossil was collected in 2021 during autumn fieldwork led by the first author, from the Guanling Formation in Luxi, Yunnan, China. It was named by Xu and colleagues in 2022.12
- E sa ntse e phehwa kgang
- Scientists are still debating how Honghesaurus and other pachypleurosaurs are related to each other, and whether they all came from Europe or spread from the east.1
Moo dintlha di tswang teng
- A long-tailed marine reptile from China provides new insights into the Middle Triassic pachypleurosaur radiation | Scientific Reports (nature.com)
- Honghesaurus in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): dilemo, dibaka, dibopeho tsa mafika, tlhophiso.
Ntlha e nngwe le e nngwe leqepheng lena e na le nomoro e supang mohlodi wa yona. Haeba re fositse ho hong, re kopa tshwarelo, re balatedi ba didinosaure, ha re koranta ya saense. Re bolelle ho [email protected] mme re tla e lokisa.
Rex o lapile! Dino Wiki ke projeke ya ntate bakeng sa mora wa hae ya ratang didinosaure, ke mahala, ha ho dipapatso, ha ho disebedi. Batho ba baholo ba ka fepa Rex seneke ho thusa hore e dule e le inthaneteng.Fepa Rex