{"id":2522,"date":"2023-02-01T12:29:34","date_gmt":"2023-02-01T06:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=2522"},"modified":"2025-03-25T22:19:44","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T16:49:44","slug":"turnersuchus-hingleyae","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/turnersuchus-hingleyae\/","title":{"rendered":"Turnersuchus hingleyae"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Turnersuchus hingleyae<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The fossils uncovered on the <strong>Jurassic Coast in the United Kingdom<\/strong> include part of the head, backbone, and limbs of Turnersuchus hingleyae.<\/li>\n<li>Its age dates back to the early Jurassic, <strong>Pliensbachian period<\/strong>, which was about 185 million years ago.<\/li>\n<li>Due to their relatively long, slender snouts, they would likely have looked similar to the currently living <strong>Gharial crocodiles.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Pliensbachian period<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>It occurred between 190.8 million and 182.7 million years ago during the Early Jurassic Period.<\/li>\n<li>The stage\u2019s name is derived from the village of Pliensbach, Germany.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is Gharial?<\/h3>\n<p>It is a large fish-eating crocodile with a long, narrow snout that widens at the\u00a0 nostrils, native to the Indian subcontinent.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/technology\/ancient-marine-crocodile-fossil-8415408\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Newly-discovered ancient \u2018marine crocodile\u2019 fossil could be the oldest of its kind ever found<\/u><\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fossils uncovered on the Jurassic Coast in the UK include part of Turnersuchus hingleyae.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":2523,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2522","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}