Caypullisaurus
Caypullisaurus was a large, dolphin-like marine reptile that swam in the warm seas of what is now Argentina. It had a long, slender snout and huge eyes to hunt fish and squid in the dark ocean.1
E tshetse leng?
E ne e le kgolo go le kae?
E ne e le telele go le kae?
telele jaaka dintšwa di le 5 go tswa kwa nkong go ya kwa mogatleng🍌telele jaaka dibanana di le 28 di latelana🏊e ne e ka thuma boleele jwa letamo le legolo la go thuma (50 m) mo metsotswaneng e le 3.9Caypullisaurus e ne e le kgolo go le kae fa e bapisiwa le WENA?
Ke dipalo fela mo sebatling sa gago. Ga go sepe se se bolokwang kgotsa se se romelwang gope.
E ne e le bonako go le kae?
Dintlha tse di monate
Caypullisaurus had four main fingers in its front flipper, made of tightly packed, many-sided bones, plus extra fingers on the front and back edges.1
Its eyes were very large, like those of Ophthalmosaurus, helping it see in dim water.1
Adult Caypullisaurus had weak or missing teeth, so it probably sucked in soft prey like squid.1
The only known skeleton is the most complete ichthyosaur ever found from the Jurassic of South America.1
Caypullisaurus lived about 145 million years ago, during the Late Jurassic period.4
Its fossils were found in the Vaca Muerta formation, a famous rock layer in Argentina that also holds many other marine reptiles.4

Dipotso tse di botswang thata ka ga Caypullisaurus
?How big was Caypullisaurus?
It was about 7 metres (23 feet) long, which is roughly the length of a large bus.3
?What did Caypullisaurus eat?
It ate fish and squid. Adults had weak or missing teeth, so it probably sucked in soft prey like squid.3
?When did Caypullisaurus live?
It lived about 150 to 140 million years ago, during the Late Jurassic and Early Cretaceous periods.3
Ya baitseanape ba didino
- Leina la saense
- Caypullisaurus
- Leina le neilwe ke
- Fernández 19974
- Setlhopha
- Diikhithiosoro
- Lelapa / clade
- Ophthalmosauridae4
- Thulaganyo
- Ichthyosauria > Ichthyosauromorpha4
- Bogolo jwa matlapa
- 145 go ya go 137 dimilione tsa dingwaga (Tithonian / Berriasian)4
- Dibopego tsa matlapa
- Vaca Muerta4
- Dinaga
- Arejentina4
- Direkoto tsa difosili
- 2 mo The Paleobiology Database4
- Go fitlhelwa
- Caypullisaurus was named by paleontologist M. S. Fernández in 1997, based on a nearly complete skeleton from the Neuquén Basin in Argentina.41
- Go sa ntse go ganetsanwa
- Scientists are not sure exactly how big Caypullisaurus grew, because only one skeleton has been found.4
Kwa dintlha di tswang teng
- A new ichthyosaur from the Tithonian (Late Jurassic) of the Neuquén Basin, northwestern Patagonia, Argentina (cambridge.org)
- A new ichthyosaur from the Tithonian (Late Jurassic) of the Neuquen Basin, northwestern Patagonia, Argentina | Journal of Paleontology | GeoScienceWorld (pubs.geoscienceworld.org)
- Caypullisaurus (en.wikipedia.org)
- Caypullisaurus in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): dingwaga, mafelo, dibopego tsa matlapa, thulaganyo.
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