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Pliosaurus
Pliosaurus Pli`o*sau"rus, n. [NL., from Gr. ? greater + ? lizard.] (Paleon.) An extinct genus of marine reptiles allied to Plesiosaurus, but having a much shorter neck.

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- short-necked forms with large heads and m****ive toothed jaws, commonly known as pliosaurs. More primitive non-thal****ophonean pliosauroids resembled plesiosaurs...
- series of neck vertebrae from the Kimmeridge Clay Formation indicate a pliosaur, probably Pliosaurus, that may have been up to 14.4 metres (47 ft) long...
- (/ˌmɛɡəˈsɛfəloʊˈsɔːrəs/; "great-headed lizard") is an extinct genus of short-necked pliosaur that inhabited the Western Interior Seaway of North America about 94 to...
- Liopleurodon ferox. French and German paleontologists classified it as a giant pliosaur, which lived around 140 million years ago in shallow waters of the area...
- Kimmeridge Clay Formation, dating to the late Kimmeridgian. Nicknamed "Westbury pliosaur II", it was first described by S****oon et al. (2012) who, together with...
- size of pliosaurs is difficult because not much is known of their postcranial anatomy. The palaeontologist L. B. Tarlo suggested that the pliosaurs’ total...
- KRON-oh-SOR-əs; meaning "lizard of Kronos") is an extinct genus of short-necked pliosaurs that lived during the Early Cretaceous period (Aptian to Late Albian)...
- ichthyosaur from Europe and North America Liopleurodon, a medium-sized sea-going pliosaur from Europe Dakosaurus, a medium-sized sea-going crocodylomorph from Europe...
- plesiosaurs proper, and short-necked large-headed pliosaurs. Originally, it was thought that plesiosaurs and pliosaurs were two distinct superfamilies that followed...
- (Turonian–Maastrichtian ages), with the extinction of the ichthyosaurs and pliosaurs, mosasaurids became the dominant marine predators. They themselves became...