- short-necked
forms with
large heads and m****ive
toothed jaws,
commonly known as
pliosaurs. More
primitive non-thal****ophonean
pliosauroids resembled plesiosaurs...
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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...
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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...
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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)...
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ichthyosaur from
Europe and
North America Liopleurodon, a medium-sized sea-going
pliosaur from
Europe Dakosaurus, a medium-sized sea-going
crocodylomorph from Europe...
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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...