Wunyelfia

Lebitso le bolela: “from Wüñelfe, the Mapuche name for the planet Venus, a symbol of freedom”1

E jele: NamaDiplesiosaureKretase ya MoraoHa se dinosaure ho ya ka saense

Wunyelfia was a long-necked marine reptile that swam in the ocean near Chile about 66 million years ago. It was not a dinosaur, but a plesiosaur, a fierce hunter of the sea.1 2

Ntlha e monate: sehahabi sena sa lewatle se ne se sesa ha didinosaure di ntse di tsamaya naheng. Bohle ba di bitsa didinosaure, empa e ne e le lekala le leng la dihahabi.

E phetse

dilemo tse dimilione tse 72 ho isa ho 66 tse fetileng4

Kretase ya Morao

Difosili di fumanwe ho

Chile, in the Quiriquina Formation1 3

Lebelo le phahameng ka ho fetisisa

e ka bang 27 km/h (17 mph)

Ho sesa, kakanyo

E phetse neng?

Triasiki

Jurasiki

Kretase

Dilemo tse dimilione tse 252 tse fetileng20114566, asteroiti

E ne e le lebelo hakae?

Motho ya tsamayang ka maoto e ka bang 5 km/h (3 mph)

Ngwana a palame baesekele e ka bang 12 km/h (7 mph)

Wunyelfia e ka bang 27 km/h (17 mph)

Pere e mathang ka matla e ka bang 65 km/h (40 mph)

Lengau e ka bang 100 km/h (62 mph)

dintho tse monate

Dintlha tse monate

Wunyelfia is known from a nearly adult skeleton, including neck bones, back bones, and parts of the shoulders and hips.3

Its neck bones have special features that show it belongs to a group called aristonectines, known for very long necks.3

Wunyelfia lived in the Weddellian Province, a cold ocean region near Antarctica during the Late Cretaceous.3

The name Wunyelfia comes from the Mapuche word for Venus, the planet, and also a symbol of freedom.1

Wunyelfia is the second aristonectine plesiosaur found in the southeastern Pacific from the late Maastrichtian.3

Its fossils are about 72 to 66 million years old, from the very end of the Age of Dinosaurs.2

Setshwantsho sa Wunyelfia se entsweng ke AI — Setshwantsho se entsweng ke AI, se bontshang kamoo Wunyelfia e ka beng e ne e shebahala kateng, se entswe ke khomphutha ho ya ka seo bo-ramahlale ba se tsebang. Ke ho hakanya feela: phoofolo ya nnete e ka nna ya ba e ne e shebahala ka tsela e nngwe, mme ha ho motho ya tsebang mebala ya yona ya nnete.

Mosenyi wa ditshomo

Tshomo: Some people think Wunyelfia was a dinosaur.

Nnete: Wunyelfia was a plesiosaur, a marine reptile, not a dinosaur.1

Bakeng sa ditsebi tsa didinosaure

Lebitso la saense: Wunyelfia
E rehilwe ke: Otero and Soto-Acuña 20214
Sehlopha: Diplesiosaure
Lelapa / leloko: Elasmosauridae4
Tlhophiso: Plesiosauria > Elasmosauridae > Sauropterygia4
Dilemo tsa mafika: dilemo tse dimilione tse 72 ho isa ho 66 (Maastrichtian)4
Dibopeho tsa mafika: Quiriquina4
Dinaha: Chile4
Direkoto tsa difosili: 1 ho The Paleobiology Database4
Ho sibollwa: Wunyelfia was named by Rodrigo A. Otero and Sergio Soto-Acuña in 2021, based on a partial skeleton found in central Chile.3 1
E sa ntse e phehwa kgang: Scientists are still debating exactly how Wunyelfia is related to other aristonectines, because its neck bones are a bit different.3

Moo dintlha di tswang teng

Wunyelfia (en.wikipedia.org)
PBDB Taxon (paleobiodb.org)
Wunyelfia maulensis gen. et sp. nov., a new basal aristonectine (Plesiosauria, Elasmosauridae) from the Upper Cretaceous of central Chile - ADS (ui.adsabs.harvard.edu)
Wunyelfia in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): dilemo, dibaka, dibopeho tsa mafika, tlhophiso.

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