Post by Deleted on Feb 5, 2021 12:02:25 GMT
Today's entry: Hydrotherosaurus
Pronunciation: Hy-dro-ther-roe-sore-us
Meaning of name: "Water beast lizard".
Species: H. alexandrae
Size: Estimated to have measured between 7 and 13 metres long and weighing around 2 metric tonnes.
Family: Elasmosauridae.
Diet: Piscivore
First fossils found: Known only from a single, almost-complete skeleton discovered in the Moreno Formation of California in 1943. Named in the same year by American palaeontologist, Samuel Paul Welles.
Lived: 72.1 to 66 million years ago during the Maastrichtian stage of the Late Cretaceous in the warm waters of the Western Interior Seaway which once stretched from the Arctic ocean and through the middle of what is now Canada and the United States to the Gulf of Mexico. May also have lived in the Pacific ocean.
Pronunciation: Hy-dro-ther-roe-sore-us
Meaning of name: "Water beast lizard".
Species: H. alexandrae
Size: Estimated to have measured between 7 and 13 metres long and weighing around 2 metric tonnes.
Family: Elasmosauridae.
Diet: Piscivore
First fossils found: Known only from a single, almost-complete skeleton discovered in the Moreno Formation of California in 1943. Named in the same year by American palaeontologist, Samuel Paul Welles.
Lived: 72.1 to 66 million years ago during the Maastrichtian stage of the Late Cretaceous in the warm waters of the Western Interior Seaway which once stretched from the Arctic ocean and through the middle of what is now Canada and the United States to the Gulf of Mexico. May also have lived in the Pacific ocean.
