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Placodonts ("tablet teeth") are an
extinct order of
marine reptiles that
lived during the Tri****ic period,
becoming extinct at the end of the period. They...
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placodont thus far
found in non-marine deposits,
suggesting it may have
lived in
brackish or
freshwater lagoons. Henodus, like many
other placodonts,...
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analyses place placodonts not as
their ancestors using morphological cladistic analyses based on the bone osteology. The
study of
these placodonts contributes...
- Gr****
psepho (ψῆφος), "pebbly", and
derma (δέρμα), "skin") is a
genus of
placodonts very
similar to the
related genera Placochelys and Cyamodus. Psephoderma...
- interpretation,
Palatodonta is
transitional between placodonts and less
specialized reptiles. Like
placodonts, it has a row of
large teeth on its palate, but...
- an
extinct superfamily of
placodont marine reptiles from the Tri****ic period. It is one of the two main
groups of
placodonts, the
other being Placodontoidea...
- they may be
closely related to turtles. The bulky-bodied, mollusc-eating
placodonts may also be sauropterygians, or
intermediate between the
classic eosauropterygians...
- a
classification now
cladistically obsolete), mosasaurs, nothosaurs,
placodonts, sea turtles,
thalattosaurs and thalattosuchians. Most
marine reptile...
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reference to its
similarity to Placodus. Like the
majority of
described placodonts,
Paraplacodus was an
aquatic reptile that fed on s****fish,
though recent...
- (Rhaetian). By the end of the Tri****ic, all
other sauropterygians,
including placodonts and nothosaurs, had
become extinct. At
least six
lineages of plesiosaur...
