Thalassiodracon
Thalassiodracon was a small, fast-swimming marine reptile that lived in the seas around what is now England. It had a short neck, big eyes, and long teeth, and it hunted fish and squid-like animals.1
E tshetse leng?
E ne e le kgolo go le kae?
E ne e le telele go le kae?
telele jaaka dikatse tsa mo gae di le 3 go tswa kwa nkong go ya kwa mogatleng🍌telele jaaka dibanana di le 8 di latelana🏊e ne e ka thuma boleele jwa letamo le legolo la go thuma (50 m) mo metsotswaneng e le 10Thalassiodracon 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
Thalassiodracon had a skull only 17 cm (6.7 in) long, but its neck was 75.5 cm (2 ft 5.7 in) long.1
Its eyes were large and had flat scleral rings, which helped it see in dark, deep water.1
Thalassiodracon was warm-blooded, like modern mammals, and had a high metabolism for an active lifestyle.1
It gave birth to live young, not eggs, just like many modern sharks and some reptiles.1
The teeth of Thalassiodracon were constantly replaced in a wave pattern, with every third tooth being replaced at a time.1
Its forelimbs were shorter than its hindlimbs, which scientists think helped it chase prey with speed and strength.1

Dipotso tse di botswang thata ka ga Thalassiodracon
?How big was Thalassiodracon?
About 1.5 metres (4.9 ft) long. That is roughly the length of a small dolphin.1
?When did Thalassiodracon live?
It lived during the Late Triassic and Early Jurassic periods, about 201 to 196 million years ago.1
?Is Thalassiodracon a dinosaur?
No, it is a plesiosaur, which is a marine reptile. It lived in the sea and was not a dinosaur.1
Mothubi wa ditlhamane
Tlhamane: Thalassiodracon was a dinosaur.
Boammaaruri: Thalassiodracon was a plesiosaur, a marine reptile that lived in the sea, not a dinosaur.1
Ya baitseanape ba didino
- Leina la saense
- Thalassiodracon
- Leina le neilwe ke
- Storrs and Taylor 19962
- Setlhopha
- Dipleisiosoro
- Lelapa / clade
- Pliosauridae2
- Thulaganyo
- Plesiosauria > Pliosauridae > Sauropterygia2
- Bogolo jwa matlapa
- 201 go ya go 184 dimilione tsa dingwaga (Hettangian / Pliensbachian)2
- Dibopego tsa matlapa
- Blue Lias, White Lias2
- Dinaga
- Bogosi jo bo Kopaneng2
- Direkoto tsa difosili
- 8 mo The Paleobiology Database2
- Go fitlhelwa
- The first fossils were found by Thomas Hawkins in Somerset, England in the early 1830s. Richard Owen named it Plesiosaurus hawkinsii in 1838, and it was given its own genus Thalassiodracon by Storrs and Taylor in 1996.1
- Go sa ntse go ganetsanwa
- Scientists are still debating whether Thalassiodracon was an ancestor of the short-necked pliosaurs or a more primitive plesiosaur.1
Kwa dintlha di tswang teng
- Thalassiodracon (en.wikipedia.org)
- Thalassiodracon in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): dingwaga, mafelo, dibopego tsa matlapa, thulaganyo.
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