Tricleidus
Tricleidus was a plesiosaur, a marine reptile that swam in the seas during the Jurassic Period. It had a small head, a long neck, and flippers to paddle through the water. It was not a dinosaur, but a distant cousin that lived in the ocean.13
E tshetse leng?
E ne e le bonako go le kae?
Dintlha tse di monate
Tricleidus is known from only one skeleton, found in the Oxford Clay of England.1
The first fossil was a shoulder girdle, which is part of the skeleton that supports the flippers.2
It lived about 165 to 161 million years ago, during the Callovian age of the Jurassic.2
One species that was once called Tricleidus svalbardensis was moved to another genus, Colymbosaurus, in 2012.1

Mothubi wa ditlhamane
Tlhamane: Some people think Tricleidus was a dinosaur because it lived long ago and is often shown in dinosaur books.
Boammaaruri: Tricleidus was a plesiosaur, a marine reptile, not a dinosaur. Dinosaurs lived on land and had different body features.1
Ya baitseanape ba didino
- Leina la saense
- Tricleidus
- Leina le neilwe ke
- Andrews 19093
- Setlhopha
- Dipleisiosoro
- Lelapa / clade
- Cryptoclididae3
- Thulaganyo
- Plesiosauria > Sauropterygia3
- Bogolo jwa matlapa
- 184 go ya go 155 dimilione tsa dingwaga (Toarcian / Oxfordian)3
- Dibopego tsa matlapa
- Oxford Clay3
- Dinaga
- Bogosi jo bo Kopaneng, Noreweye3
- Direkoto tsa difosili
- 3 mo The Paleobiology Database3
- Go fitlhelwa
- Tricleidus was named by C. W. Andrews in 1909, based on a skeleton found in the Oxford Clay of Peterborough, England. The type species is Tricleidus seeleyi.13
- Go sa ntse go ganetsanwa
- Scientists are still debating how Tricleidus is related to other plesiosaurs, and some fossils from Norway were once assigned to it but later moved to another genus.1
Kwa dintlha di tswang teng
- Tricleidus (en.wikipedia.org)
- PBDB Taxon (paleobiodb.org)
- Tricleidus in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): dingwaga, mafelo, dibopego tsa matlapa, thulaganyo.
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