Scanisaurus
Scanisaurus was a long-necked marine reptile that swam in the shallow seas of what is now Sweden and Russia. It was about as long as a small car and used its sharp teeth to catch small fish and squid-like animals called belemnites.1
E phetse neng?
E ne e le kgolo hakae?
E ne e le telele hakae?
telele jwaloka dintja tse 5 ho tloha nkong ho isa mohatleng🍌telele jwaloka dibanana tse 28 di behilwe ka mola🏊e ne e ka sesa bolelele ba letamo le leholo la ho sesa (50 m) ka metsotswana e 6.4Scanisaurus 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
Scanisaurus is known from only a single backbone (a vertebral centrum) found in Russia, plus many similar backbones and teeth from Sweden.1
It lived about 80 to 75 million years ago during the Campanian stage of the Late Cretaceous.1
Scanisaurus had a shorter neck than some other elasmosaurids like Elasmosaurus, and scientists sometimes call it a 'mesodiran' plesiosaur.1
In the Kristianstad Basin, Scanisaurus fossils are the most common plesiosaur remains found.1
A fountain with two Scanisaurus sculptures was built in the Swedish town of Bromölla in 1971.1
Scanisaurus shared its home with many other marine reptiles, including mosasaurs, sea turtles, and crocodile-like animals.1

Dipotso tse botswang haholo ka Scanisaurus
?How big was Scanisaurus?
About 4 to 5 metres (13 to 16 feet) long, which is about the length of a small car.1
?What did Scanisaurus eat?
It ate small prey like small fish and belemnites (squid-like animals). Its sharp teeth were good for smashing or piercing them.1
?Is Scanisaurus a dinosaur?
No, it is not a dinosaur. It is a plesiosaur, a type of long-necked marine reptile that lived in the sea.1
Mosenyi wa ditshomo
Tshomo: Scanisaurus is a dinosaur.
Nnete: Scanisaurus is not a dinosaur. It is a plesiosaur, a type of marine reptile that lived in the sea.1
Bakeng sa ditsebi tsa didinosaure
- Lebitso la saense
- Scanisaurus
- E rehilwe ke
- Persson 19602
- Sehlopha
- Diplesiosaure
- Lelapa / leloko
- Elasmosauridae2
- Tlhophiso
- Plesiosauria > Elasmosauridae > Sauropterygia2
- Dilemo tsa mafika
- dilemo tse dimilione tse 84 ho isa ho 72 (Campanian)2
- Dinaha
- Sweden2
- Direkoto tsa difosili
- 3 ho The Paleobiology Database2
- Ho sibollwa
- The first fossil, a single backbone, was named Cimoliasaurus nazarowi by Nikolay Bogolyubov in 1911 from Russia. In 1959, Swedish paleontologist Per-Ove Persson moved it to a new genus, Scanisaurus, based on fossils from Sweden.1
- E sa ntse e phehwa kgang
- Scientists debate whether Scanisaurus is a valid genus or a nomen dubium (doubtful name), because the fossils lack features that clearly separate it from other Late Cretaceous elasmosaurids.1
Moo dintlha di tswang teng
- Scanisaurus (en.wikipedia.org)
- Scanisaurus in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): dilemo, dibaka, dibopeho tsa mafika, tlhophiso.
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