Wunyelfia
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.12
牠生活在什麼時候?
牠有多快?
趣味知識
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

迷思破解王
迷思: Some people think Wunyelfia was a dinosaur.
真相: Wunyelfia was a plesiosaur, a marine reptile, not a dinosaur.1
給恐龍專家
- 學名
- Wunyelfia
- 命名者
- Otero and Soto-Acuña 20214
- 類群
- 蛇頸龍類
- 科 / 演化支
- Elasmosauridae4
- 分類
- Plesiosauria > Elasmosauridae > Sauropterygia4
- 岩石的年代
- 72 到 66 百萬年 (Maastrichtian)4
- 岩層
- Quiriquina4
- 國家
- 智利4
- 化石紀錄
- The Paleobiology Database 收錄 1 筆4
- 發現
- Wunyelfia was named by Rodrigo A. Otero and Sergio Soto-Acuña in 2021, based on a partial skeleton found in central Chile.31
- 仍有爭議
- Scientists are still debating exactly how Wunyelfia is related to other aristonectines, because its neck bones are a bit different.3
知識從哪裡來
- 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): 年代、地點、岩層、分類。
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