Mollesaurus
Mollesaurus was a large, fast-swimming marine reptile that lived in the Jurassic seas. It looked a bit like a dolphin but was actually an ichthyosaur, not a dinosaur. With its big eyes and sharp teeth, it was a top hunter in the ocean.13
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Mollesaurus is one of the oldest known ophthalmosaurid ichthyosaurs, living about 171 to 170 million years ago.1
Its name comes from the Los Molles Formation in Argentina, where its fossils were found.1
The only known fossil of Mollesaurus is a partial skeleton including part of the skull and most of the backbone.1
Mollesaurus was a thunnosaur, meaning it had a tuna-like body built for fast swimming.1
Some scientists once thought Mollesaurus was a species of Ophthalmosaurus, but newer studies show it is its own genus.1
Mollesaurus and another ichthyosaur called Chacaicosaurus were found at the same spot in Argentina.1

Bakeng sa ditsebi tsa didinosaure
- Lebitso la saense
- Mollesaurus
- E rehilwe ke
- Fernandez 19993
- Sehlopha
- Diikhthiosaure
- Lelapa / leloko
- Ophthalmosauridae3
- Tlhophiso
- Ichthyosauria > Ichthyosauromorpha3
- Dilemo tsa mafika
- dilemo tse dimilione tse 171 ho isa ho 169 (Bajocian)3
- Dibopeho tsa mafika
- Los Molles3
- Dinaha
- Argentina3
- Direkoto tsa difosili
- 2 ho The Paleobiology Database3
- Ho sibollwa
- Mollesaurus was named by paleontologist Marta S. Fernández in 1999 based on a partial skeleton found in the Los Molles Formation of Argentina.13
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- Scientists are not sure exactly how big Mollesaurus grew, because only one partial skeleton has been found.1
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- Mollesaurus (en.wikipedia.org)
- A new ichthyosaur from the Los Molles Formation (early Bajocian), Neuquen Basin, Argentina | Journal of Paleontology | GeoScienceWorld (pubs.geoscienceworld.org)
- Mollesaurus in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): dilemo, dibaka, dibopeho tsa mafika, tlhophiso.
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