Trinacromerum
Trinacromerum was a fast-swimming marine reptile that lived in the Late Cretaceous seas. It used its long flippers like paddles to chase small fish. Even though it looked a bit like a dolphin, it was actually a plesiosaur, not a dinosaur.14
E tshetse leng?
E ne e le kgolo go le kae?
E ne e le telele go le kae?
telele jaaka dintšwa di le 3 go tswa kwa nkong go ya kwa mogatleng🍌telele jaaka dibanana di le 17 di latelana🏊e ne e ka thuma boleele jwa letamo le legolo la go thuma (50 m) mo metsotswaneng e le 6.4Trinacromerum 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
Trinacromerum's long flippers helped it swim very fast, and scientists think it moved like a 'four-flippered penguin'.1
Its name means 'three tipped femur', which refers to a bone in its hip that had three points.1
Trinacromerum had 46 vertebrae in its spine, including 20 in the neck, 3 in the chest, and 23 in the back.2
Fossils of Trinacromerum have been found in rocks that were once the bottom of a shallow sea that covered central North America.4
It lived from about 106 to 66 million years ago, during the Late Cretaceous period.4
Some scientists once thought Trinacromerum was the same as another plesiosaur called Dolichorhynchops, but now they are considered different.2

Dipotso tse di botswang thata ka ga Trinacromerum
?How big was Trinacromerum?
About 3 meters (9.8 feet) long. That is roughly the length of a small car.13
?What did Trinacromerum eat?
It ate small fish. Its teeth were shaped for catching and holding slippery prey.13
Mothubi wa ditlhamane
Tlhamane: Some people think Trinacromerum was a dinosaur because it lived in the sea and had flippers.
Boammaaruri: Trinacromerum was a plesiosaur, a marine reptile, not a dinosaur. Dinosaurs lived on land and had different body shapes.1
Ya baitseanape ba didino
- Leina la saense
- Trinacromerum
- Leina le neilwe ke
- Cragin 18884
- Setlhopha
- Dipleisiosoro
- Lelapa / clade
- Polycotylidae4
- Thulaganyo
- Plesiosauria > Sauropterygia4
- Bogolo jwa matlapa
- 106 go ya go 66 dimilione tsa dingwaga (Albian / Maastrichtian)4
- Dibopego tsa matlapa
- Carlile Shale, Greenhorn Limestone, Pierre Shale4
- Dinaga
- Amerika, Khanata4
- Direkoto tsa difosili
- 18 mo The Paleobiology Database4
- Go fitlhelwa
- Trinacromerum was first named by Francis W. Cragin in 1888 from fossils found in Kansas, USA. Later, more fossils were found in Canada and other parts of the USA.14
- Go sa ntse go ganetsanwa
- Scientists still debate whether some fossils belong to Trinacromerum or to its close relative Dolichorhynchops, because their skeletons are very similar.2
Kwa dintlha di tswang teng
- Trinacromerum (en.wikipedia.org)
- PBDB Taxon (paleobiodb.org)
- Trinacromerum — Triebold Paleontology, Inc. (trieboldpaleontology.com)
- Trinacromerum in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): dingwaga, mafelo, dibopego tsa matlapa, thulaganyo.
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