Thililua
Thililua was a short-necked plesiosaur that swam in warm seas off the coast of Africa. It had a long, slender snout and many sharp teeth to catch fish. This marine reptile was about as long as a small bus.1
E tshetse leng?
E ne e le kgolo go le kae?
E ne e le telele go le kae?
telele jaaka dintšwa di le 6 go tswa kwa nkong go ya kwa mogatleng🍌telele jaaka dibanana di le 33 di latelana🏊e ne e ka thuma boleele jwa letamo le legolo la go thuma (50 m) mo metsotswaneng e le 6.7Thililua 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
Thililua is the first polycotylid plesiosaur ever found in Africa.1
Its name comes from a Berber water god, because it lived in the sea.1
Thililua had 30 neck vertebrae, and some of them had ridges on the sides that no other polycotylid had.1
The only known fossil includes a nearly complete skull and 37 vertebrae, found in a nodule of rock.1
Thililua lived about 93 to 90 million years ago, during the Turonian stage of the Late Cretaceous.3
Its teeth were all about the same size, with no big fangs like some other plesiosaurs.1

Dipotso tse di botswang thata ka ga Thililua
?How big was Thililua?
Thililua was about 5.5 to 6 metres long, which is roughly the length of a small bus.21
Ya baitseanape ba didino
- Leina la saense
- Thililua
- Leina le neilwe ke
- Bardet et al. 20033
- Setlhopha
- Dipleisiosoro
- Lelapa / clade
- Polycotylidae3
- Thulaganyo
- Plesiosauria > Sauropterygia3
- Bogolo jwa matlapa
- 94 go ya go 90 dimilione tsa dingwaga (Turonian)3
- Dibopego tsa matlapa
- Akrabou3
- Dinaga
- Moroko3
- Direkoto tsa difosili
- 1 mo The Paleobiology Database3
- Go fitlhelwa
- Thililua was named in 2003 by Nathalie Bardet, Xabier Pereda Suberbiola, and Nour-Eddine Jalil. The only specimen was found near Goulmima in Morocco, though the exact spot is unknown.1
- Go sa ntse go ganetsanwa
- Scientists are not sure whether Thililua was more closely related to long-necked plesiosaurs or to short-necked pliosaurs.1
Kwa dintlha di tswang teng
- doi:10.1016/S1631-0683(03)00063-0 (sciencepress.mnhn.fr)
- Thililua (en.wikipedia.org)
- Thililua in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): dingwaga, mafelo, dibopego tsa matlapa, thulaganyo.
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