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Umfanekiso wekhathuni: Wumengosaurus
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Wumengosaurus

Igama lithetha: “Wumeng lizard, named after the Wumeng Mountain area in China”1
Yayitya: InyamaIzirhubuluzi zaselwandleiTriassic ephakathiNgokwenene ayisiyo dayinaso

Wumengosaurus was a small, long-bodied marine reptile that swam in the warm seas of what is now China during the Triassic Period. It had a long snout full of tiny, sharp teeth and probably hunted for small fish and shrimp. Even though it looked a bit like a dinosaur, it was actually a type of sauropterygian, a group that includes plesiosaurs.12

Inyani emnandi: esi sirhubuluzi saselwandle sasiqubha ngelixa iidayinaso zazihamba emhlabeni. Wonke umntu uzibiza ngokuba ziidayinaso, kodwa zazilisebe elahlukileyo lezirhubuluzi.
Yaphila
247 ukuya ku-241 izigidi zeminyaka eyadlulayo4
iTriassic ephakathi
Iifosili zifunyenwe:
Guizhou Province, southwestern China13
Ubude
0.955 ukuya ku-1.305 m (3.1 ukuya ku-4.3 ft)1
Esona santya siphezulu
malunga ne-12 km/h (7 mph)
Ukuqubha, uqikelelo

Yaphila nini?

iTriassic
iJurassic
iCretaceous
Izigidi ezingama-252 zeminyaka eyadlulayo20114566, i-asteroyidi

Yayinkulu kangakanani?

Yayinde kangakanani?

Wumengosaurus malunga ne-1.305 m ubude (4.3 ft)Ikati yasekhaya malunga ne-0.5 m (1.6 ft)Inja malunga ne-1 m (3.3 ft)Ibhayisikile yomntu omdala malunga ne-1.8 m (5.9 ft)
inde njengeekati zasekhaya ezingama-2.5, impumlo ukuya emsileniinde njengeebhanana ezingama-7 zilandelelanaibinokuqubha ubude bechibi elikhulu lokuqubha (50 m) ngemizuzwana engama-15

Wumengosaurus wayemkhulu kangakanani xa ethelekiswa NAWE?

Yimathematika nje kwibhrawuza yakho. Akukho nto igcinwayo okanye ithunyelwe naphi na.

Yayikhawuleza kangakanani?

izinto ezimnandi

Iinyani ezimnandi

1

Wumengosaurus had a very long body with short legs, making it look a bit like a swimming lizard.2

2

Its jaws were long and pointed, like a pair of tweezers, and held more than 45 tiny teeth.1

3

Scientists think Wumengosaurus was one of the earliest and most basic members of the eosauropterygian group, which later gave rise to the huge plesiosaurs.12

4

The first fossil of Wumengosaurus was found in the Guanling Formation, a layer of rock that was once the bottom of a shallow sea.13

5

A second species, Wumengosaurus rotundicarpus, was named in 2021 based on a fossil from Panzhou District in Guizhou.1

6

Wumengosaurus lived about 247 to 241 million years ago, during the Middle Triassic, not long after the biggest mass extinction in Earth's history.13

Yenziwe yi-AIUmfanekiso owenziwe yi-AI: Wumengosaurus
Umfanekiso owenziwe yi-AI obonisa indlela Wumengosaurus esenokuba wayekhangeleka ngayo, wenziwe yikhompyutha ngokwento eyaziwa zizazinzulu. Kukuqikelela nje: esona silwanyana sinokuba sasikhangeleka ngenye indlela, kwaye akukho mntu waziyo imibala yaso yokwenyani.

Kwiingcali zeedayinaso

Igama lenzululwazi
Wumengosaurus
Inikwe igama ngu:
Jiang et al. 20084
Iqela
Izirhubuluzi zaselwandle
Usapho / iclade
Eosauropterygia4
Ukuhlelwa
Sauropterygia4
Ubudala bamatye
247 ukuya ku-241 izigidi zeminyaka ()4
Izakhiwo zamatye
Guanling4
Amazwe
iTshayina4
Iirekhodi zeefosili
2 kwi-Paleobiology Database4
Ukufunyanwa
Wumengosaurus was first described by scientists Jiang, Rieppel, Motani, and others in 2008, based on a fossil skeleton from the Guanling Formation in Guizhou, China.13
Kusaxoxwa ngayo
Scientists are not sure exactly where Wumengosaurus fits on the family tree. Most studies place it as a basal eosauropterygian, but one study suggested it might be more closely related to ichthyosaurs.1

Apho iinyani zivela khona

  1. Wumengosaurus (en.wikipedia.org)
  2. Ancestral body plan and adaptive radiation of sauropterygian marine reptiles: iScience (cell.com)
  3. PBDB Taxon (paleobiodb.org)
  4. Wumengosaurus in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): ubudala, iindawo, izakhiwo zamatye, ukuhlelwa.

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