Thililua
Thililua was a short-necked plesiosaur that swam in warm seas off the coast of Africa. It had a long, slender snout and many sharp teeth to catch fish. This marine reptile was about as long as a small bus.1
E phetse neng?
E ne e le kgolo hakae?
E ne e le telele hakae?
telele jwaloka dintja tse 6 ho tloha nkong ho isa mohatleng๐telele jwaloka dibanana tse 33 di behilwe ka mola๐e ne e ka sesa bolelele ba letamo le leholo la ho sesa (50 m) ka metsotswana e 6.7Thililua 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
Thililua is the first polycotylid plesiosaur ever found in Africa.1
Its name comes from a Berber water god, because it lived in the sea.1
Thililua had 30 neck vertebrae, and some of them had ridges on the sides that no other polycotylid had.1
The only known fossil includes a nearly complete skull and 37 vertebrae, found in a nodule of rock.1
Thililua lived about 93 to 90 million years ago, during the Turonian stage of the Late Cretaceous.3
Its teeth were all about the same size, with no big fangs like some other plesiosaurs.1

Dipotso tse botswang haholo ka Thililua
?How big was Thililua?
Thililua was about 5.5 to 6 metres long, which is roughly the length of a small bus.21
Bakeng sa ditsebi tsa didinosaure
- Lebitso la saense
- Thililua
- E rehilwe ke
- Bardet et al. 20033
- Sehlopha
- Diplesiosaure
- Lelapa / leloko
- Polycotylidae3
- Tlhophiso
- Plesiosauria > Sauropterygia3
- Dilemo tsa mafika
- dilemo tse dimilione tse 94 ho isa ho 90 (Turonian)3
- Dibopeho tsa mafika
- Akrabou3
- Dinaha
- Moroko3
- Direkoto tsa difosili
- 1 ho The Paleobiology Database3
- Ho sibollwa
- Thililua was named in 2003 by Nathalie Bardet, Xabier Pereda Suberbiola, and Nour-Eddine Jalil. The only specimen was found near Goulmima in Morocco, though the exact spot is unknown.1
- E sa ntse e phehwa kgang
- Scientists are not sure whether Thililua was more closely related to long-necked plesiosaurs or to short-necked pliosaurs.1
Moo dintlha di tswang teng
- doi:10.1016/S1631-0683(03)00063-0 (sciencepress.mnhn.fr)
- Thililua (en.wikipedia.org)
- Thililua in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): dilemo, dibaka, dibopeho tsa mafika, tlhophiso.
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