Leurospondylus
Leurospondylus was a plesiosaur, a long-necked marine reptile that lived in the Late Cretaceous period. It swam in rivers and estuaries in what is now Alberta, Canada. Scientists think it may have spent its early life in brackish water.1
E phetse neng?
E ne e le kgolo hakae?
E ne e le telele hakae?
telele jwaloka dikatse tsa lapeng tse 4 ho tloha nkong ho isa mohatleng๐telele jwaloka dibanana tse 11 di behilwe ka mola๐e ne e ka sesa bolelele ba letamo le leholo la ho sesa (50 m) ka metsotswana e 6.7Leurospondylus 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
The only known fossil of Leurospondylus is a juvenile that was about 2 meters long. Adults may have been much larger.1
Its name means 'smooth vertebra' because its backbone bones were flat and wider than they were long.1
Leurospondylus lived in brackish water (a mix of fresh and salt water) in rivers and estuaries. This is unusual because most plesiosaurs lived in the open ocean.1
When it was first described in 1913, Leurospondylus was thought to be the last known plesiosaur fossil. Its species name 'ultimus' means 'last' in Latin.1
Scientists are not sure which family Leurospondylus belongs to. Its vertebrae look like those of pliosaurs, but its shoulder and hip bones resemble those of elasmosaurids.1

Mosenyi wa ditshomo
Tshomo: Leurospondylus was a dinosaur.
Nnete: Leurospondylus was a plesiosaur, a marine reptile that lived in the sea and rivers. Plesiosaurs are not dinosaurs.1
Bakeng sa ditsebi tsa didinosaure
- Lebitso la saense
- Leurospondylus
- E rehilwe ke
- Brown 19132
- Sehlopha
- Diplesiosaure
- Lelapa / leloko
- Elasmosauridae2
- Tlhophiso
- Plesiosauria > Elasmosauridae > Sauropterygia2
- Dilemo tsa mafika
- dilemo tse dimilione tse 72 ho isa ho 66 (Maastrichtian)2
- Dibopeho tsa mafika
- Horseshoe Canyon2
- Dinaha
- Kanada2
- Direkoto tsa difosili
- 1 ho The Paleobiology Database2
- Ho sibollwa
- Leurospondylus was named by Barnum Brown in 1913 based on a juvenile fossil found in the Horseshoe Canyon Formation of Alberta, Canada.12
- E sa ntse e phehwa kgang
- Scientists still debate whether Leurospondylus belongs to the family Elasmosauridae or to a different group, because its bones show a mix of features.1
Moo dintlha di tswang teng
- Leurospondylus (en.wikipedia.org)
- Leurospondylus in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): dilemo, dibaka, dibopeho tsa mafika, tlhophiso.
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