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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...
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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...
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Lower Lias of England. The type and only species, is Thal****iodracon (
Plesiosaurus)
hawkinsi (Owen, 1838). Thal****iodracon
hawkinsi is
known from a number...
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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...
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supporting G.
wegneri as a
junior synonym of B. brancai. E.
Koken named Plesiosaurus limnophilus in 1887
based on
isolated cervical vertebrae from outcrops...