Fluvionectes
Fluvionectes was a long-necked marine reptile that swam in rivers and estuaries, not the open ocean. It was a type of plesiosaur called an elasmosaur, and it hunted fish and other prey in the water.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 dintšwa di le 7 go tswa kwa nkong go ya kwa mogatleng🍌telele jaaka dibanana di le 39 di latelana🍉bokete jaaka magapu a le 78🧸bokete jaaka bana ba kreše ba le 21🎒bokete jaaka bana ba sekolo ba le 12🏊e ne e ka thuma boleele jwa letamo le legolo la go thuma (50 m) mo metsotswaneng e le 6.2Fluvionectes 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
Fluvionectes is one of the few plesiosaurs found in non-marine rocks, meaning it lived in rivers and estuaries, not the open ocean.1
The holotype skeleton was found disarticulated, scattered over an area of about 2.5 square metres, with only two rib bones still connected.1
Fluvionectes had 22 dorsal vertebrae, which is a unique feature that helps scientists identify it as a new species.1
The name Fluvionectes comes from Latin and Greek words meaning 'river swimmer', because it lived in rivers.1
The species name sloanae honours Donna Sloan, who discovered the holotype and worked as a scientific illustrator at the Royal Tyrrell Museum.1
Fluvionectes was smaller than many other elasmosaurids that lived in the ocean, which might be because it lived in rivers.1

Dipotso tse di botswang thata ka ga Fluvionectes
?How big was Fluvionectes?
About 5 to 5.2 metres (16 to 17 ft) long for the holotype, and the largest known specimen may have reached 7 metres (23 ft).23
?What did Fluvionectes eat?
It hunted fish and other vertebrates in the water, using its slender tooth and powerful flippers to catch prey.4
?Where did Fluvionectes live?
It lived in rivers and estuaries (brackish water) in what is now Alberta, Canada, not in the open ocean like most other elasmosaurs.23
?Is Fluvionectes a dinosaur?
No, it is a plesiosaur, a type of marine reptile that lived in the water during the time of dinosaurs.2
Mothubi wa ditlhamane
Tlhamane: Some people think all plesiosaurs lived only in the ocean.
Boammaaruri: Fluvionectes shows that some plesiosaurs lived in rivers and estuaries, not just the open sea.1
Ya baitseanape ba didino
- Leina la saense
- Fluvionectes
- Leina le neilwe ke
- Campbell et al. 20215
- Setlhopha
- Dipleisiosoro
- Lelapa / clade
- Elasmosauridae5
- Thulaganyo
- Plesiosauria > Elasmosauridae > Sauropterygia5
- Bogolo jwa matlapa
- 84 go ya go 72 dimilione tsa dingwaga (Campanian)5
- Dibopego tsa matlapa
- Dinosaur Park5
- Dinaga
- Khanata5
- Direkoto tsa difosili
- 6 mo The Paleobiology Database5
- Go fitlhelwa
- The holotype was discovered by Donna Sloan in the Dinosaur Park Formation in Alberta, Canada. It was named by Campbell and colleagues in 2021.1
- Go sa ntse go ganetsanwa
- Scientists are still debating why Fluvionectes was smaller than ocean-living elasmosaurids, and whether it spent its whole life in rivers or moved between fresh and salt water.1
Kwa dintlha di tswang teng
- PeerJ A new elasmosaurid (Sauropterygia: Plesiosauria) from the non-marine to paralic Dinosaur Park Formation of southern Alberta, Canada (peerj.com)
- Fluvionectes (en.wikipedia.org)
- A new elasmosaurid (Sauropterygia: Plesiosauria) from the non-marine to paralic Dinosaur Park Formation of southern Alberta, Canada (pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
- New Late Cretaceous Marine Reptile publication by M. Ryan and J. Campbell | Department of Earth Sciences (earthsci.carleton.ca)
- Fluvionectes in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): dingwaga, mafelo, dibopego tsa matlapa, thulaganyo.
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