Thaumatosaurus
Thaumatosaurus was a plesiosaur, a long-necked marine reptile that lived in the sea. It swam in warm, shallow waters during the Jurassic Period, about 168 to 165 million years ago. Scientists are not sure exactly what it looked like because the fossils are very incomplete.21
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E ne e le bonako go le kae?
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Thaumatosaurus was named in 1841 by the paleontologist Christian Erich Hermann von Meyer.1
The name Thaumatosaurus means 'wonder reptile' in Greek.1
Many fossils that were once called Thaumatosaurus are now thought to belong to other plesiosaurs like Rhomaleosaurus and Meyerasaurus.1
Thaumatosaurus is considered a 'nomen dubium' or doubtful name, because the original fossil pieces are too few to tell exactly what kind of plesiosaur it was.1
The fossils of Thaumatosaurus were found in rocks from the Bathonian stage, which is about 168 to 165 million years old.2
Thaumatosaurus lived in the ocean and was a strong swimmer, using its flippers to move through the water.2

Mothubi wa ditlhamane
Tlhamane: Some people think Thaumatosaurus was a dinosaur.
Boammaaruri: Thaumatosaurus was a plesiosaur, a marine reptile that lived in the sea, not a dinosaur. Dinosaurs lived on land.1
Ya baitseanape ba didino
- Leina la saense
- Thaumatosaurus
- Leina le neilwe ke
- (Meyer 1841)3
- Setlhopha
- Dipleisiosoro
- Lelapa / clade
- Plesiosauridae3
- Thulaganyo
- Plesiosauria > Sauropterygia3
- Bogolo jwa matlapa
- 168 go ya go 165 dimilione tsa dingwaga (Bathonian)3
- Dibopego tsa matlapa
- Calcaires de Caen, Great Oolite3
- Dinaga
- Fora3
- Direkoto tsa difosili
- 2 mo The Paleobiology Database3
- Go fitlhelwa
- Thaumatosaurus was named in 1841 by the German paleontologist Christian Erich Hermann von Meyer. He described the species Thaumatosaurus oolithicus from partial skull, backbone and limb fossils found in Germany.1
- Go sa ntse go ganetsanwa
- Scientists are not sure what Thaumatosaurus really looked like because the original fossils are too incomplete. It might be the same as another plesiosaur.1
Kwa dintlha di tswang teng
- Thaumatosaurus (en.wikipedia.org)
- PBDB Taxon (paleobiodb.org)
- Thaumatosaurus in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): dingwaga, mafelo, dibopego tsa matlapa, thulaganyo.
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