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meaning "lizard") or
plesiosaurs are an
order or
clade of
extinct Mesozoic marine reptiles,
belonging to the Sauropterygia.
Plesiosaurs first appeared in...
- are no
longer considered plesiosaurs. The list
currently includes 208 genera.
There is no official,
canonical list of
plesiosaur genera but one of the most...
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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...
- now
plesiosaurs are
recognized as
highly derived marine reptiles descended from
terrestrial ancestors.
Early researchers thought that
plesiosaurs laid...
- out
except for the
plesiosaurs.
During the
Early Jur****ic,
these diversified quickly into both long-necked small-headed
plesiosaurs proper, and short-necked...
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belong to the latter.
Gastroliths are
frequently found ****ociated with
plesiosaurs. The
first complete plesiosauroid skeletons were
found in
England by...
- PMC 3306369. PMID 22438869. "
Plesiosaur bottom-feeding shown". 17
October 2005. "Sticking your neck out: How did
plesiosaurs swim with such long necks?"...
- was one of few
plesiosaurs known from the New
World at the time, and the
first recognized member of the long-necked
family of
plesiosaurs, the Elasmosauridae...
- of
plesiosaur crossed the Tri****ic–Jur****ic boundary.
Plesiosaurs were
already diverse in the
earliest Jur****ic, with the
majority of
plesiosaurs in the...
- sirenians. It was
present in many
marine reptiles, such as
ichthyosaurs and
plesiosaurs. Lipid-rich,
collagen fiber-laced
blubber comprises the
hypodermis and...