- Elasmosauridae,
often called elasmosaurs or elasmosaurids, is an
extinct family of
plesiosaurs that
lived from the
Hauterivian stage of the
Early Cretaceous...
- the
animal was
referred to as the "Courtenay
elasmosaur", "Puntledge
elasmosaur", or "Haslam
elasmosaur". The
novelty and
unique anatomy of the animal...
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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...
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single species,
Albertonectes vanderveldei.
Albertonectes is the
longest elasmosaur, and more
generally plesiosaur,
known to date both in neck and
total body...
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American elasmosaurs from the
Cretaceous of the
western interior". Paludicola. 2 (2): 148–173. Cicimurri, D. J.; Everhart, M. J. (2001). "An
elasmosaur with...
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American elasmosaurs from the
Cretaceous of the
western interior". Paludicola. 2 (2): 148–173. Cicimurri, D.; Everhart, M. (2001). "An
Elasmosaur with Stomach...
- fish, as well as
describing the
dinosaur Dilophosaurus in 1954 and the
elasmosaur Fresnosaurus in 1943. Gregory,
Joseph T. "Memorial to
Samuel P. Welles:...
- penguin-like
polycotylid plesiosaurs (3
meters long) and huge long-necked
elasmosaurs (13
meters long) also diversified.
These predators fed on the numerous...
- 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...
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Australian elasmosaurid genus Eromangasaurus, with
reference to
other austral elasmosaur taxa".
Journal of
Vertebrate Paleontology. 27 (1): 241–246. doi:10...
