Wunyelfia

Leina le raya: “from Wüñelfe, the Mapuche name for the planet Venus, a symbol of freedom”1

E jele: NamaDipleisiosoroBofelo jwa CretaceousKa saense, ga se dinosoro

Wunyelfia was a long-necked marine reptile that swam in the ocean near Chile about 66 million years ago. It was not a dinosaur, but a plesiosaur, a fierce hunter of the sea.1 2

Ntlha e e monate: segagabi seno sa lewatle se ne se thuma fa dinosoro di ne di tsamaya mo lefatsheng. Mongwe le mongwe o di bitsa didino, mme e ne e le lekala le lengwe la digagabi.

E tshetse

dimilione tsa dingwaga di le 72 go ya go 66 tse di fetileng4

Bofelo jwa Cretaceous

Difosili di fitlhetswe kwa

Chile, in the Quiriquina Formation1 3

Bonako jo bogolo

e ka nna 27 km/h (17 mph)

Go thuma, kakanyo

E tshetse leng?

Triassic

Jurassic

Cretaceous

dimilione tsa dingwaga di le 252 tse di fetileng20114566, asteroiti

E ne e le bonako go le kae?

Motho yo o tsamayang e ka nna 5 km/h (3 mph)

Ngwana mo baesekeleng e ka nna 12 km/h (7 mph)

Wunyelfia e ka nna 27 km/h (17 mph)

Pitse e e sianang ka bonako e ka nna 65 km/h (40 mph)

Lengau e ka nna 100 km/h (62 mph)

dilo tse di monate

Dintlha tse di monate

Wunyelfia is known from a nearly adult skeleton, including neck bones, back bones, and parts of the shoulders and hips.3

Its neck bones have special features that show it belongs to a group called aristonectines, known for very long necks.3

Wunyelfia lived in the Weddellian Province, a cold ocean region near Antarctica during the Late Cretaceous.3

The name Wunyelfia comes from the Mapuche word for Venus, the planet, and also a symbol of freedom.1

Wunyelfia is the second aristonectine plesiosaur found in the southeastern Pacific from the late Maastrichtian.3

Its fossils are about 72 to 66 million years old, from the very end of the Age of Dinosaurs.2

Setshwantsho sa Wunyelfia se se dirilweng ke AI — Setshwantsho se se dirilweng ke AI sa kafa Wunyelfia e ka tswang e ne e lebega ka gone, se dirilwe ke khomputara go ya ka se borasaense ba se itseng. Ke kakanyo fela: phologolo ya nnete e ka tswa e ne e lebega ka tsela e sele, mme ga go ope yo o itseng mebala ya yona ya nnete.

Mothubi wa ditlhamane

Tlhamane: Some people think Wunyelfia was a dinosaur.

Boammaaruri: Wunyelfia was a plesiosaur, a marine reptile, not a dinosaur.1

Ya baitseanape ba didino

Leina la saense: Wunyelfia
Leina le neilwe ke: Otero and Soto-Acuña 20214
Setlhopha: Dipleisiosoro
Lelapa / clade: Elasmosauridae4
Thulaganyo: Plesiosauria > Elasmosauridae > Sauropterygia4
Bogolo jwa matlapa: 72 go ya go 66 dimilione tsa dingwaga (Maastrichtian)4
Dibopego tsa matlapa: Quiriquina4
Dinaga: Tšhile4
Direkoto tsa difosili: 1 mo The Paleobiology Database4
Go fitlhelwa: Wunyelfia was named by Rodrigo A. Otero and Sergio Soto-Acuña in 2021, based on a partial skeleton found in central Chile.3 1
Go sa ntse go ganetsanwa: Scientists are still debating exactly how Wunyelfia is related to other aristonectines, because its neck bones are a bit different.3

Kwa dintlha di tswang teng

Wunyelfia (en.wikipedia.org)
PBDB Taxon (paleobiodb.org)
Wunyelfia maulensis gen. et sp. nov., a new basal aristonectine (Plesiosauria, Elasmosauridae) from the Upper Cretaceous of central Chile - ADS (ui.adsabs.harvard.edu)
Wunyelfia in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): dingwaga, mafelo, dibopego tsa matlapa, thulaganyo.

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