Meyerasaurus
Meyerasaurus was a fierce marine reptile that swam in the seas during the time of the dinosaurs. It was not a dinosaur, but a plesiosaur with a big head and strong jaws. It hunted fish and other sea creatures.12
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 19 di latelana🏊e ne e ka thuma boleele jwa letamo le legolo la go thuma (50 m) mo metsotswaneng e le 6.2Meyerasaurus 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
Meyerasaurus was about 3.35 metres long, with a skull that was only 37 centimetres long. That means its head was quite small compared to its body.2
It had a short and wide snout, and its humerus (upper arm bone) was curved and longer than its femur (thigh bone).2
Meyerasaurus lived about 184 to 183 million years ago, during the Early Jurassic period.1
The only known fossil of Meyerasaurus was damaged during a bombing raid on Stuttgart in 1944, but it was rescued and repaired.2
Meyerasaurus belongs to a group called Rhomaleosauridae, which were plesiosaurs with short necks and big heads.2
Its teeth had fine ridges on them, called lingual striations, which helped it grip slippery prey.2

Mothubi wa ditlhamane
Tlhamane: Some people think Meyerasaurus was a dinosaur because it lived during the age of dinosaurs.
Boammaaruri: Meyerasaurus was a marine reptile, not a dinosaur. Dinosaurs lived on land and had different body features.2
Ya baitseanape ba didino
- Leina la saense
- Meyerasaurus
- Leina le neilwe ke
- Smith and Vincent 20103
- Setlhopha
- Dipleisiosoro
- Lelapa / clade
- Rhomaleosauridae3
- Thulaganyo
- Plesiosauria > Sauropterygia3
- Bogolo jwa matlapa
- 184 go ya go 183 dimilione tsa dingwaga (Toarcian)3
- Dibopego tsa matlapa
- Posidonia Shale3
- Dinaga
- Jeremane3
- Direkoto tsa difosili
- 1 mo The Paleobiology Database3
- Go fitlhelwa
- The fossil was first described by Eberhard Fraas in 1910, but it was given its own genus name Meyerasaurus by Smith and Vincent in 2010. The specimen was found in Holzmaden, Germany.21
- Go sa ntse go ganetsanwa
- Scientists are still debating whether Rhomaleosauridae is a separate family, because different studies give different results.2
Kwa dintlha di tswang teng
- PBDB Taxon (paleobiodb.org)
- A new genus of pliosaur (Reptilia: Sauropterygia) from the Lower Jurassic of Holzmaden, Germany (onlinelibrary.wiley.com)
- Meyerasaurus in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): dingwaga, mafelo, dibopego tsa matlapa, thulaganyo.
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