Definition of Plesiosaurus. Meaning of Plesiosaurus. Synonyms of Plesiosaurus

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Definition of Plesiosaurus

Plesiosaurus
Plesiosaurus Ple`si*o*sau"rus, n.; pl. Plesiosauri. [NL., fr. Gr ? near + ? a lizard.] (Paleon.) A genus of large extinct marine reptiles, having a very long neck, a small head, and paddles for swimming. It lived in the Mesozoic age.

Meaning of Plesiosaurus from wikipedia

- Plesiosaurus (Gr****: πλησίος (plesios), near to + σαῦρος (sauros), lizard) is a genus of extinct, large marine sauropterygian reptile that lived during...
- the last common ancestor of Plesiosaurus dolichocheirus and Peloneustes philarchus and all its descendants. Plesiosaurus and Peloneustes represented the...
- 1841, as a species of the wastebasket taxon Plesiosaurus in its own subgenus Pleiosaurus, creating Plesiosaurus (Pleiosaurus) brachydeirus. Later that year...
- another Plesiosaurus species by William Johnson Sollas in 1881, but after studies on the plaster casts made after the remains, Plesiosaurus conybeari...
- her re****tion grew. On 10 December 1823, she found the first complete Plesiosaurus, and in 1828 the first British example of the flying reptiles known as...
- Kingdom. It was described by the British paleontologist Richard Owen as Plesiosaurus constrictus in 1850; Owen named the species after the extremely narrow...
- Lower Lias of England. The type and only species, is Thal****iodracon (Plesiosaurus) hawkinsi (Owen, 1838). Thal****iodracon hawkinsi is known from a number...
- species of Cimoliasaurus by Richard Lydekker, with Plesiosaurus ichthyospondylus and tentatively Plesiosaurus balticus as synonyms. Later authors considered...
- is H. brachypterygius, which was originally described as a species of Plesiosaurus and then Microcleidus. It was a relatively small plesiosaur, with the...
- supporting G. wegneri as a junior synonym of B. brancai. E. Koken named Plesiosaurus limnophilus in 1887 based on isolated cervical vertebrae from outcrops...