Palmula
Palmula was a small, fast-swimming marine reptile that lived in the shallow seas of North America about 90 million years ago. It had four flippers shaped like oars and a short neck, making it a speedy hunter of fish and squid.12
E phetse neng?
E ne e le lebelo hakae?
Dintlha tse monate
Palmula was a polycotylid plesiosaur, a group of short-necked plesiosaurs that were fast swimmers.1
Its name means 'blade of an oar' because its flipper bones were shaped like square paddles.1
The bones in its flippers were nearly square, unlike other plesiosaurs which had short, wide flipper bones.1
Only one fossil of Palmula has been found, including parts of the skull, backbone, and a complete right flipper.1
Palmula was originally named Palmula, but that name was already used for a different animal, so scientists later changed it to Palmulasaurus.2

Bakeng sa ditsebi tsa didinosaure
- Lebitso la saense
- Palmula
- E rehilwe ke
- Albright et al. 20072
- Sehlopha
- Diplesiosaure
- Lelapa / leloko
- Polycotylidae2
- Tlhophiso
- Plesiosauria > Sauropterygia2
- Dilemo tsa mafika
- dilemo tse dimilione tse 94 ho isa ho 90 (Turonian)2
- Direkoto tsa difosili
- 1 ho The Paleobiology Database2
- Ho sibollwa
- Palmula was named in 2007 by L. Barry Albright III, David D. Gillette, and Alan L. Titus based on a fossil found in the Tropic Shale of southern Utah.21
- E sa ntse e phehwa kgang
- Scientists are not sure exactly how big Palmula grew, because only one partial skeleton has been found.1
Moo dintlha di tswang teng
- doc.rero.ch (doc.rero.ch)
- Palmula in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): dilemo, dibaka, dibopeho tsa mafika, tlhophiso.
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