Wumengosaurus
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
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Yayinkulu kangakanani?
Yayinde kangakanani?
inde njengeekati zasekhaya ezingama-2.5, impumlo ukuya emsileni๐inde njengeebhanana ezingama-7 zilandelelana๐ibinokuqubha ubude bechibi elikhulu lokuqubha (50 m) ngemizuzwana engama-15Wumengosaurus wayemkhulu kangakanani xa ethelekiswa NAWE?
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Wumengosaurus had a very long body with short legs, making it look a bit like a swimming lizard.2
Its jaws were long and pointed, like a pair of tweezers, and held more than 45 tiny teeth.1
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
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
A second species, Wumengosaurus rotundicarpus, was named in 2021 based on a fossil from Panzhou District in Guizhou.1

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