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Definition of Elasmosaurus

Elasmosaurus
Elasmosaurus E*las`mo*sau"rus, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ? a metal plate + ? a lizard.] (Paleon.) An extinct, long-necked, marine, cretaceous reptile from Kansas, allied to Plesiosaurus.

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- the March ANSP meeting, during which he named it Elasmosaurus platyurus. The generic name Elasmosaurus means "thin-plate reptile", in reference to the...
- more favorably with Elasmosaurus than with Pliosaurus or Peloneustes." He considered Simolestes a possible ancestor of Elasmosaurus. Oskar Kuhn adopted...
- snowii is from a group called elasmosaurs, and is closely related to Elasmosaurus platyurus, which was found in Kansas, USA, in 1867. The first Styxosaurus...
- ensues and Helstrom tries to escape in the lifeboat, but is killed by an Elasmosaurus. Englehorn, Hilda and Charlie quickly retrieve and board the lifeboat...
- humiliated Cope by pointing out that his reconstruction of the plesiosaur Elasmosaurus was flawed, with the head placed where the tail should have been (or...
- "), Morris Stegosaurus, Mr. Argentinosaurus, Mr. Daspletosaurus, Mr. Elasmosaurus, Quentin Qianzhousaurus, Stuart Stygimoloch, Travis Troodon, Triceratops...
- skeleton of Elasmosaurus platyurus]". Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 20: 314. Cope, E.D. (1868). "Remarks on a new enaliosaurian, Elasmosaurus platyurus"...
- watching helplessly as one of their own sank into a boiling tar pit; an Elasmosaurus that lashed out of a tidal pool at guests; and numerous Pteranodon perched...
- The Elasmosaurus EP is a limited print EP by Matt Costa. It was released in 2005 on Venerable Media. The EP comprises six songs that were recorded during...
- discarded at some point in the past. The specimen was originally named Elasmosaurus morgani by Welles in 1949, but it was reclassified to its own genus by...