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Platecarpus

Leina le raya: “oar wrist”1
E jele: NamaDimosasoroBofelo jwa CretaceousKa saense, ga se dinosoro

Platecarpus was a fast-swimming marine lizard that lived in the sea during the time of the dinosaurs. It had a long tail with a shark-like fin and ate fish and squid. Platecarpus was not a dinosaur, but a mosasaur, a kind of giant sea lizard.1

Ntlha e e monate: segagabi seno sa lewatle se ne se thuma fa dinosoro di ne di tsamaya mo lefatsheng. Mongwe le mongwe o di bitsa didino, mme e ne e le lekala le lengwe la digagabi.
E tshetse
dimilione tsa dingwaga di le 100 go ya go 66 tse di fetileng2
Bofelo jwa Cretaceous
Difosili di fitlhetswe kwa
United States (especially Kansas, Mississippi, South Dakota, Texas, Wyoming), Canada, Sweden, Brazil, Australia, Russia, and other countries21
Boleele
5.67 m (19 ft)1
Bonako jo bogolo
e ka nna 38 km/h (24 mph)
Go thuma, kakanyo

E tshetse leng?

Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
dimilione tsa dingwaga di le 252 tse di fetileng20114566, asteroiti

E ne e le kgolo go le kae?

E ne e le telele go le kae?

Platecarpus e ka nna 5.67 m boleele (19 ft)Baesekele ya motho yo mogolo e ka nna 1.8 m (5.9 ft)Koloi e ka nna 4.5 m (15 ft)Tlou, phologolo e kgolo go gaisa tsotlhe mo lefatsheng gompieno e ka nna 6.5 m (21 ft)
telele jaaka dintšwa di le 6 go tswa kwa nkong go ya kwa mogatlengtelele jaaka dibanana di le 32 di latelanae ne e ka thuma boleele jwa letamo le legolo la go thuma (50 m) mo metsotswaneng e le 4.7

Platecarpus 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?

dilo tse di monate

Dintlha tse di monate

1

Platecarpus had a short skull and fewer teeth than any other mosasaur, with only about 10 teeth in each lower jaw bone.1

2

A well-preserved fossil shows skin impressions, pigments near the nostrils, and even the shape of the tail fluke, which was like a shark's tail.1

3

Platecarpus swam by moving its tail side to side, but its deep tail fin made it a powerful, fast swimmer, not like an eel.1

4

Fossilized stomach contents show that Platecarpus ate fish and did not digest its food completely, passing bones and scales quickly.1

5

A 2026 study of tooth chemistry suggests that Platecarpus was warm-blooded, like modern sharks and whales.1

6

Platecarpus fossils are very common in the Smoky Hill Chalk of Kansas, which was once the bottom of a shallow sea.1

E dirilwe ke AISetshwantsho sa Platecarpus se se dirilweng ke AI
Setshwantsho se se dirilweng ke AI sa kafa Platecarpus e ka tswang e ne e lebega ka gone, se dirilwe ke khomputara go ya ka se borasaense ba se itseng. Ke kakanyo fela: phologolo ya nnete e ka tswa e ne e lebega ka tsela e sele, mme ga go ope yo o itseng mebala ya yona ya nnete.
o botsitse

Dipotso tse di botswang thata ka ga Platecarpus

?How big was Platecarpus?

About 5.7 metres (18.7 feet) long, based on a complete fossil. That is roughly the length of a small bus.1

?What did Platecarpus eat?

It ate medium-sized fish, and probably also squid and ammonites. Fossil stomach contents show it swallowed fish whole and digested them quickly.1

?When did Platecarpus live?

It lived about 84 to 81 million years ago, during the Late Cretaceous period. That was the time of the dinosaurs.1

?Is Platecarpus a dinosaur?

No, it is not a dinosaur. It is a mosasaur, a kind of giant marine lizard that lived in the sea.1

?Where have Platecarpus fossils been found?

Mostly in the United States, especially in Kansas. Fossils have also been found in Belgium, Australia, and Africa.1

Mothubi wa ditlhamane

Tlhamane: Many people think mosasaurs like Platecarpus swam like eels, wiggling their whole body.

Boammaaruri: Platecarpus had a crescent-shaped tail fluke and swam more like a shark, using its tail for powerful thrusts.1

Ya baitseanape ba didino

Leina la saense
Platecarpus
Leina le neilwe ke
Cope 18692
Setlhopha
Dimosasoro
Lelapa / clade
Mosasauridae2
Thulaganyo
Mosasauroidea2
Bogolo jwa matlapa
100 go ya go 66 dimilione tsa dingwaga (Cenomanian / Maastrichtian)2
Dibopego tsa matlapa
Pierre Shale, Niobrara, Molecap Greensand2
Dinaga
Amerika, Khanata, Swedene, Borasele, Ositerelia, Rašia2
Direkoto tsa difosili
60 mo The Paleobiology Database2
Go fitlhelwa
Platecarpus was named by the famous paleontologist Edward Drinker Cope in 1869, based on fossils found in Mississippi, USA.12
Go sa ntse go ganetsanwa
Scientists still debate whether some fossils belong to Platecarpus or to other closely related mosasaurs, and some species have been moved to different genera.1

Kwa dintlha di tswang teng

  1. Platecarpus (en.wikipedia.org)
  2. Platecarpus in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): dingwaga, mafelo, dibopego tsa matlapa, thulaganyo.

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