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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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- Elasmosauridae is an extinct family of plesiosaurs, often called elasmosaurs. They had the longest necks of the plesiosaurs and existed from the Hauterivian...
- previously thought to belong to Thal****omedon. Styxosaurus was a large elasmosaur, with a long neck measuring about 5.25 metres (17.2 ft) in total. The...
- single species, Albertonectes vanderveldei. Albertonectes is the longest elasmosaur, and more generally plesiosaur, known to date both in neck and total body...
- American elasmosaurs from the Cretaceous of the western interior". Paludicola. 2 (2): 148–173. Cicimurri, D. J.; Everhart, M. J. (2001). "An elasmosaur with...
- American elasmosaurs from the Cretaceous of the western interior". Paludicola. 2 (2): 148–173. Cicimurri, D.; Everhart, M. (2001). "An Elasmosaur with Stomach...
- beneath Urquhart Castle, where they encounter a family of plesiosaur and elasmosaur hybrids. Isabel can communicate with them through a series of whistles...
- in forms with very long necks. Another study found the long necks of elasmosaurs would normally increase drag during forward swimming but this was cancelled...
- and the persistently primitive Suevoleviathan) and plesiosaurs (the elasmosaurs (long-necked) Microcleidus and Occitanosaurus, and the pliosaur Hauffiosaurus)...
- Poropat et al. 2023, p. 150. Samuel P. Welles (1962). "A new species of elasmosaur from the Aptian of Colombia and a review of the Cretaceous plesiosaurs"...
- frilled sharks, Protosqualus, and Cretalamna. Theropod Ornithopods Elasmosaurs Mosasaurs Among others, the following fossils have been found in the...