Hauffiopteryx
Hauffiopteryx was a small, fast-swimming marine reptile that lived in the Early Jurassic seas. It looked a bit like a dolphin but was actually an ichthyosaur, a group of ocean-dwelling reptiles. With its long snout and big eyes, it was a skilled hunter of fish and squid.21
E tshetse leng?
E ne e le kgolo go le kae?
E ne e le telele go le kae?
telele jaaka dintšwa di le 3 go tswa kwa nkong go ya kwa mogatleng🍌telele jaaka dibanana di le 17 di latelana🏊e ne e ka thuma boleele jwa letamo le legolo la go thuma (50 m) mo metsotswaneng e le 3.8Hauffiopteryx 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
Hauffiopteryx had a very short snout compared to other ichthyosaurs, and its upper jaw stuck out a little bit past the lower jaw.1
Its belly ribs (gastralia) were extra long, reaching all the way to the 35th vertebra in its backbone, which is unique among ichthyosaurs from the same time.1
The holes on top of its skull (the temporal fenestrae) were small and round, unlike the larger openings in its relative Stenopterygius.1
Scientists think Hauffiopteryx might have had a special diet or hunting style because it only appears in rocks from a short time during the Early Jurassic, when the ocean had less oxygen.1
No one has ever found a baby Hauffiopteryx or any food remains inside its stomach, so how it grew and what it ate is still a mystery.1
Hauffiopteryx was first thought to be a type of Stenopterygius, but in 2008 scientists gave it its own genus because of its unique hip bones and other features.1

Mothubi wa ditlhamane
Tlhamane: Hauffiopteryx is a dinosaur.
Boammaaruri: Hauffiopteryx is an ichthyosaur, a marine reptile that lived in the sea, not a dinosaur. Dinosaurs lived on land.2
Ya baitseanape ba didino
- Leina la saense
- Hauffiopteryx
- Leina le neilwe ke
- Maisch 20082
- Setlhopha
- Diikhithiosoro
- Lelapa / clade
- Neoichthyosauria2
- Thulaganyo
- Ichthyosauria > Ichthyosauromorpha2
- Bogolo jwa matlapa
- 184 go ya go 183 dimilione tsa dingwaga (Toarcian)2
- Dibopego tsa matlapa
- Beacon Limstone2
- Dinaga
- Bogosi jo bo Kopaneng2
- Direkoto tsa difosili
- 1 mo The Paleobiology Database2
- Go fitlhelwa
- Hauffiopteryx was named by Michael W. Maisch in 2008. He studied fossils that had been found in Germany and England and realized they belonged to a new genus.21
- Go sa ntse go ganetsanwa
- Scientists are not sure exactly what Hauffiopteryx ate or how it hunted, because no stomach contents have been found.1
Kwa dintlha di tswang teng
- Revision of Hauffiopteryx (palaeo-electronica.org)
- Hauffiopteryx in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): dingwaga, mafelo, dibopego tsa matlapa, thulaganyo.
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