Luopingosaurus
Luopingosaurus was a small marine reptile that swam in the seas of China about 244 million years ago. It had a long snout and used suction to catch its food. It was not a dinosaur, but a relative of plesiosaurs.21
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Luopingosaurus e ne e le kgolo go le kae fa e bapisiwa le WENA?
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Luopingosaurus had a very long snout, making up 55% of its skull length. This was unusual for its family, which usually had short snouts.2
It had extra finger bones, a condition called hyperphalangy. Its fingers had the formula 2 to 3-5 to 5-3, and its toes had 2 to 3-4 to 6-4.2
Luopingosaurus had 21 neck vertebrae and 27 back vertebrae, which is more than other pachypleurosaurids.2
It had rod-like hyoid bones in its throat. These bones helped create suction to pull prey into its mouth.2
Luopingosaurus lived about 244 million years ago, during the Middle Triassic period. This was about 8 million years after the great end-Permian mass extinction.2

Ya baitseanape ba didino
- Leina la saense
- Luopingosaurus
- Leina le neilwe ke
- Xu et al. 20233
- Setlhopha
- Digagabi tsa lewatle
- Lelapa / clade
- Pachypleurosauridae3
- Thulaganyo
- Sauropterygia3
- Bogolo jwa matlapa
- 244 go ya go 243 dimilione tsa dingwaga ()3
- Dibopego tsa matlapa
- Guanling3
- Dinaga
- Tšhaena3
- Direkoto tsa difosili
- 1 mo The Paleobiology Database3
- Go fitlhelwa
- The fossil was found in Luoping County, Yunnan, China, in rocks of the Guanling Formation. It was named by Xu and colleagues in 2023.13
- Go sa ntse go ganetsanwa
- Scientists are still debating how Luopingosaurus and other pachypleurosaurids are related to each other and to other marine reptiles. The exact family tree is not fully agreed upon.2
Kwa dintlha di tswang teng
- Luopingosaurus (en.wikipedia.org)
- A new long-snouted marine reptile from the Middle Triassic of China illuminates pachypleurosauroid evolution | Scientific Reports (preview-www.nature.com)
- Luopingosaurus in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): dingwaga, mafelo, dibopego tsa matlapa, thulaganyo.
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