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- What does an Elasmosaurus eat?
- Are Elasmosaurus carnivores?
- Did the Elasmosaurus have predators?
- Why is Elasmosaurus not a dinosaur?
- What killed the Elasmosaurus?
- What is the biggest plesiosaur?
- Is a Elasmosaurus a dinosaur?
- What's the spitting dinosaur in Jurassic Park?
- What is the Elasmosaurus habitat?
- Did Elasmosaurus breathe underwater?
- How many bones does a Elasmosaurus have?
- How big is a Kronosaurus?
- How did Elasmosaurus go extinct?
- How fast can the Elasmosaurus swim?
What does an Elasmosaurus eat?
Elasmosaurids probably ate small fish and marine invertebrates, seizing them with their long teeth, and may have used gastroliths (stomach stones) to help digest their food. Elasmosaurus is known from the Pierre Shale formation, which represents marine deposits from the Western Interior Seaway.
Are Elasmosaurus carnivores?
It was a carnivorous hunter which used its long neck to get close to prey without them noticing. A swift flick of the neck could catch them unawares. Its small head limited the size of what it could eat. Elasmosaurus spent all its time in the water, often cruising coastal waters for shoals of fish.
Did the Elasmosaurus have predators?
Elasmosaurs preyed primarily on fish and prehistoric cephalopods (a class that includes present-day squids and octopuses) such as belemnites and ammonites. Scientists believe that elasmosaurs were relatively slow-moving ambush predators that used their long necks and thin, pointed teeth to catch their prey.
Why is Elasmosaurus not a dinosaur?
Like most of the so called 'swimming dinosaurs', Elasmosaurus wasn't really a dinosaur at all! It was a reptile. It did breathe air. Their necks were so long they wouldn't have been able to lift more than its head above the water.
What killed the Elasmosaurus?
It died out with the dinosaurs and other prehistoric marine reptiles at the end of the Cretaceous.
What is the biggest plesiosaur?
Plesiosaurs. The longest known plesiosauroid was Elasmosaurus at 14 metres (46 feet) long.
Is a Elasmosaurus a dinosaur?
Elasmosaurus was a plesiosaur, a type of marine reptile. It was not a dinosaur, though it coexisted with many dinosaurs. The first Elasmosaurus fossil was discovered in 1868.
What's the spitting dinosaur in Jurassic Park?
The poison-spitting dinosaur reconstructed in Jurassic Park is Dilophosaurus. At the time the movie was produced, there was no evidence that this or any other dinosaur spat poison or had poisonous saliva of any kind.
What is the Elasmosaurus habitat?
Elasmosaurus was a plesiosaur, part of an extraordinarily diverse and successful group of marine reptiles that ruled the Earth's oceans for 160 million years. They lived in a wide range of environments from near-shore estuaries to the open ocean, and some even lived in freshwater habitats.
Did Elasmosaurus breathe underwater?
Like Other Marine Reptiles, Elasmosaurus Had to Breathe Air
They weren't equipped with gills, like fish and sharks, and couldn't live below water 24 hours a day.
How many bones does a Elasmosaurus have?
Elasmosaurus represents this group here at the park. Its distinctive neck contains 72 bones—ten times more than any mammal.
How big is a Kronosaurus?
Kronosaurus is a pliosaur, a short-necked marine reptile. It is though to have grown up to 11 metres in length, and its skull alone is nearly two metres long. Its jaws contain rows of large conical teeth, the biggest of which are nearly 30 centimetres long.
How did Elasmosaurus go extinct?
Elasmosaurus lived during the late Cretaceous period, and went extinct during the K-T mass extinction (65 million years ago). Elasmosaurus lived in the open oceans and breathed air.
How fast can the Elasmosaurus swim?
“Studies have shown an optimal swimming speed for plesiosaurs of about 0.4 m/s (1.44 km/h) to a maximum sustained speed of about 2.5 m/s (9 km/h) (like today's dolphins), depending on joint movement of the limbs and specific species.
