Ceresiosaurus

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Ceresiosaurus

ZooTek Phoenix

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Author: Moondawg

Keywords: extinct animals, dinosaurs

Release Date: Jan 28 2009

Current CeresiosaurusMD_2009.ztd dated 23 January 2009

File Size: 2.37mb

Compatibility: All game versions, but it will not start as an egg in the original ZT.

Description: Ceresiosaurus, meaning "Lizard of Ceres", is an extinct genus of aquatic sauropterygian reptile belonging to the nothosaur order.
It was about 4 m (13 ft) long and its fossils have been found in Europe, and was named by Bernhard Peyer in 1931.
Ceresiosaurus existed during the middle Triassic period during the Anisian stage.

Ceresiosaurus was much more elongated than its relatives, and had fully developed flippers with no trace of visible toes. The finger bones in its flippers had multiplied (hyperphalangy) and elongated, giving the reptile much longer flippers than most nothosaurs. Ceresiosaurus's flippers greatly resembled those of the later plesiosaurs, an aquatic reptile family of which the nothosaurs were an early offshoot. Also noteworthy of Ceresiosaurus was that its skull is the shortest known of any nothosaur, giving it an appearance that made it the most plesiosaur-looking of the nothosaurs.


Although possessing a long neck and tail, Ceresiosaurus may not have been a reptile that swam via undulation; analysis of the bone structure in regards to the hips and powerful tail suggest that it instead propelled itself through the water much like a penguin. The evidence of pachypleurosaurs in the preserved stomach of Ceresiosaurus remains lend credence to the theory of it being a fast swimmer.

Olivier Rieppel suggested that Ceresiosaurus is a synonim of Lariosaurus

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Additional info:

CeresiosaurusMD_2009.ztd                                    uca: AA7402FB dated 23 January 2009

Results From Configuration Checking:

aa7402fb.uca date: Fri Jan 23 23:18:42 2009
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Animal Type: AA7402FB

Ceresiosaurus

It was about 4 m (13 ft) long and its fossils have been found in Europe, and
was named by Bernhard Peyer in 1931.
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Animal Characteristics:

Habitat: Aquatic; Location: Europe; Era: Triassic
Minimum happiness needed for chance of breeding: 95.
Animal can swim in water terrain.
Animal can swim in tanks.

Exhibit Preferences:

Foliage:
Water Lily, Water Reed, Bald Cypress Tree (DD), Horsetail (DD)
Sea Anemone (MM), Barnacles (MM), Beach Grass (MM), Brittle Sea Star (MM)
Clam Bed (MM), Orange Cup Coral (MM), Divercate Tree Coral (MM)
Feather Duster Worm (MM), Fire Coral (MM), Kelp (MM), Sea Lettuce (MM)
Red Gorgonian (MM), Sargassum (MM), Sand Dollar (MM), Sea Cucumber (MM)
Sea Star (MM), Seaweed (MM), Sea Grass (MM), Sea Sponge (MM)
Stove Pipe Sponge (MM), Tube Worm (MM), Purple Sea Urchin (MM)

Rocks:
Large Rock, Large Rock - 1, Large Rock - 2, Large Rock - 3, Large Rock - 4
Small Rock - Medium, Small Rock - Small, Small Rock - 7, Small Rock - 8
Small Rock - 9, Medium Aquatic Rock (DD), Small Ocean Floor Rock (MM)
Medium Coral Formation (MM), Large Ocean Floor Rock (MM)
Medium Ocean Floor Rock (MM), Large Coral Formation (MM), Iceberg (MM)
Isle Rock (MM)

Other specifically liked items:
Tank Filter (MM)

Exhibit Construction:

Number of animals allowed per exhibit: 1-2 with 60 squares for each adult.

Exhibit size (for 2 adults): 120 grid squares

Terrain (for exhibit with 120 grid squares):
72 Salt Water, 12 Sand, 12 Dirt, 12 Brown Stone, 12 Grass

Foliage (for exhibit with 120 grid squares):
10 grid squares should contain foliage.
Foliage that would give the most happiness: Horsetail (DD)
Since this is a small plant, greatest happiness will occur
if each of the 10 grid squares contains 4 of this plant.

Rocks (for exhibit with 120 grid squares):
10 Small Rock - Small, which is its most liked rock.