Chensaurus
Chensaurus was an early ichthyosaur, a marine reptile that swam in the seas during the Triassic Period. It had a long, narrow body and a small tail fin, and it moved through the water like an eel. It was not a dinosaur, but a distant relative of lizards and snakes.1
E tshetse leng?
E ne e le kgolo go le kae?
E ne e le telele go le kae?
E ne e le bokete go le kae?
telele jaaka dikatse tsa mo gae di le 2 go tswa kwa nkong go ya kwa mogatlengπtelele jaaka dibanana di le 6 di latelana
e ka nna bokete jaaka katse ya mo gaeπbokete jaaka dibanana di le 26πe ne e ka thuma boleele jwa letamo le legolo la go thuma (50 m) mo metsotswaneng e le 13Chensaurus 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
Chensaurus is one of the oldest known ichthyosaurs, living about 250 million years ago.4
It had a long, narrow body and a small caudal fin, which suggests it swam like an eel, not like a fish.1
Chensaurus had a high number of vertebrae in its body, which helped it move in a wavy, eel-like way.1
It is considered an evolutionary intermediate between land reptiles and later, more fish-like ichthyosaurs.1
The name Chensaurus was given in 1991, but some scientists think it is the same as another ichthyosaur called Chaohusaurus.2

Dipotso tse di botswang thata ka ga Chensaurus
?How big was Chensaurus?
Chensaurus was small, about 0.7 to 1 metre (2.3 to 3.3 feet) long and weighed 1.3 to 3.1 kilograms (2.9 to 6.8 pounds).3
?What did Chensaurus eat?
Chensaurus was a carnivore that ate meat, probably shellfish and small sea creatures. Its back teeth were bulbous for crushing shells.3
?When did Chensaurus live?
Chensaurus lived during the Early Triassic Period, about 250 million years ago.3
?Is Chensaurus a dinosaur?
No, Chensaurus is not a dinosaur. It is an ichthyosaur, a marine reptile that is a distant relative of lizards and snakes.3
Mothubi wa ditlhamane
Tlhamane: Chensaurus was a dinosaur.
Boammaaruri: Chensaurus was an ichthyosaur, a marine reptile, not a dinosaur. Ichthyosaurs lived in the sea and were more closely related to lizards and snakes.1
Ya baitseanape ba didino
- Leina la saense
- Chensaurus
- Leina le neilwe ke
- Mazin Suteethora et al. 19914
- Setlhopha
- Diikhithiosoro
- Lelapa / clade
- Grippiidae4
- Thulaganyo
- Ichthyosauria > Ichthyosauromorpha4
- Bogolo jwa matlapa
- 251 go ya go 237 dimilione tsa dingwaga ()4
- Dinaga
- TΕ‘haena4
- Direkoto tsa difosili
- 9 mo The Paleobiology Database4
- Go fitlhelwa
- Chensaurus was named by Mazin Suteethora and colleagues in 1991. The fossils were found in Anhui Province, China.44
- Go sa ntse go ganetsanwa
- Scientists debate whether Chensaurus is a separate genus or just a younger name for Chaohusaurus, because the fossils are very similar.2
Kwa dintlha di tswang teng
- Eel-like swimming in the earliest ichthyosaurs - ADS (ui.adsabs.harvard.edu)
- PBDB Taxon (paleobiodb.org)
- Chaohusaurus (en.wikipedia.org)
- Chensaurus in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): dingwaga, mafelo, dibopego tsa matlapa, thulaganyo.
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