- The
Plesiosauria or
plesiosaurs are an
order or
clade of
extinct Mesozoic marine reptiles,
belonging to the Sauropterygia.
Plesiosaurs first appeared in...
- two
pairs of large,
elongated paddles. It
lends its name to the
order Plesiosauria, of
which it is an early, but
fairly typical member. It
contains only...
-
extinction and
flourished during the Tri****ic
before all
except for the
Plesiosauria became extinct at the end of that period. The
plesiosaurs would continue...
- standard-bearers for
inclusion in the
species and
genera of the
reptile clade Plesiosauria,
which includes the short-necked
pliosaurs and long
necked plesiosauroids...
-
originally included only
members of the
family Pliosauridae, of the
order Plesiosauria, but
several other genera and
families are now also included, the number...
- Sachs, S. (2005). "Redescription of
Elasmosaurus platyurus Cope, 1868 (
Plesiosauria: Elasmosauridae) from the
Upper Cretaceous (lower Campanian) of Kansas...
- Ketchum, H.F.; Benson, R.B.J. (2010). "Global
interrelationships of
Plesiosauria (Reptilia, Sauropterygia) and the
pivotal role of
taxon sampling in determining...
- as the top
aquatic predators by
another marine reptilian group, the
Plesiosauria, in the
later Jur****ic and
Early Cretaceous,
though previous views of...
- Luis A.
Spalletti (2018). "A new
Pliosaurus species (Sauropterygia,
Plesiosauria) from the
Upper Jur****ic of Patagonia: new
insights on the Tithonian...
-
Hilary F.; Benson,
Roger B. J. (2011). "A new
pliosaurid (Sauropterygia,
Plesiosauria) from the
Oxford Clay
Formation (Middle Jur****ic, Callovian) of England:...
