Post by gigadino96 on May 28, 2013 19:45:58 GMT 5
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Name: Liopleurodon
Length: 7 meters
Mass: 2,5 tons
When: Late Jurassic, Titonian, 150 milion years ago
Where: Europe
Classification: Animalia, Chordata, Reptilia, Plesiosauria, Pliosauroidea, Pliosauridae, Liopleurodon
Species: L. ferox (type), Sauvage, 1873, L. pachydeirus, Seeley, 1869
Liopleurodon was a kind of large pliosauridae lived in the late Jurassic, about 150 million years ago. Its name means "pointy teeth." A robot created in the laboratory has shown that it was not an efficient swimmer, even though he had a good acceleration. You do not have a complete skeleton of Liopleurodon, and the maximum size that this predator could reach is unknown. An episode of "Walking With Dinosaurs", a program produced by the BBC, showed Liopleurodon 25 meters in length, but this estimate is inaccurate for any known specimen. The paleontologist L. B. Tarlo has estimated the total length of a specimen from the skull of 1.5 meters to 10.5 meters. New research, however, have messoin doubt the guesswork of Tarlo, because it was discovered that the head of a Pliosauridae and typically one-fifth of the body. From this, we could estimate a length of 6:39 meters of an adult specimen from a skull 1.26 meters. So, the average for an adult Liopleurodon is 5-7 meters. Specimens of this animal have been found in England, Russia, France and Germany.
