Californosaurus
Californosaurus was a medium-sized marine reptile that swam in the seas during the Triassic Period. It had a long snout, a tail that bent downward, and flippers with round, widely spaced finger bones. It probably gave birth in the water and never came onto land.1
Yaphila nini?
Yayinkulu kangakanani?
Yayinde kangakanani?
inde njengezinja ezingama-3, impumlo ukuya emsileni๐inde njengeebhanana ezingama-17 zilandelelana๐ibinokuqubha ubude bechibi elikhulu lokuqubha (50 m) ngemizuzwana engama-3.8Californosaurus wayemkhulu kangakanani xa ethelekiswa NAWE?
Yimathematika nje kwibhrawuza yakho. Akukho nto igcinwayo okanye ithunyelwe naphi na.
Yayikhawuleza kangakanani?
Iinyani ezimnandi
Californosaurus was first described in 1902 as a species of Shastasaurus, but later got its own genus name in 1934.1
Its head was small compared to its body, similar to early ichthyosaurs like Mixosaurus and Cymbospondylus.1
The tail bent sharply downward and had a small vertical fluke, which helped it swim.1
It may have had a small dorsal fin on its back.1
The finger bones (phalanges) were circular and widely spaced, giving the flipper a round shape.1
It lived during the Carnian age of the Late Triassic, about 237 to 227 million years ago.2

Eyona mibuzo ibuzwa kakhulu: Californosaurus
Kwiingcali zeedayinaso
- Igama lenzululwazi
- Californosaurus
- Inikwe igama ngu:
- Kuhn 19345
- Iqela
- Ii-ichthyosauri
- Usapho / iclade
- Californosauridae5
- Ukuhlelwa
- Ichthyosauria > Ichthyosauromorpha5
- Ubudala bamatye
- 237 ukuya ku-227 izigidi zeminyaka (Carnian)5
- Izakhiwo zamatye
- Hosselkus, Hosselkus Limestone5
- Amazwe
- iUSA5
- Iirekhodi zeefosili
- 2 kwi-Paleobiology Database5
- Ikwaziwa ngokuba
- Delphinosaurus (amagama amadala ngoku abalwa njengesilwanyana esinye)5
- Ukufunyanwa
- John Campbell Merriam named it in 1902 as Shastasaurus perrini, honoring Professor James Perrin Smith who found the fossil. In 1934, Oscar Kuhn gave it the new genus name Californosaurus.1
- Kusaxoxwa ngayo
- Scientists are not sure if it had a dorsal fin, but it may have had a small one.1
Apho iinyani zivela khona
- Californosaurus (en.wikipedia.org)
- PBDB Taxon (paleobiodb.org)
- PaleoCodex :: Californosaurus (paleocodex.com)
- simple.wikipedia.org (simple.wikipedia.org)
- Californosaurus in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): ubudala, iindawo, izakhiwo zamatye, ukuhlelwa.
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