- short-necked
forms with
large heads and m****ive
toothed jaws,
commonly known as
pliosaurs. More
primitive non-thal****ophonean
pliosauroids resembled plesiosaurs...
-
plesiosaurs proper, and short-necked large-headed
pliosaurs. Originally, it was
thought that
plesiosaurs and
pliosaurs were two
distinct superfamilies that followed...
- 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)...
-
Almost all
pliosaurs normally have five
pairs of
premaxillary teeth and this
feature of
reduction to four
pairs is
fairly unique among pliosaurs; it has...
-
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...
-
bigger than yours! The
Monster of Aramberri,
Predator X, and
other monster pliosaurs in the
media at
Plesiosaur Bites plesiosaria.com "El "monstruo of Aramberri""...
- that long-necked
plesiosaurs would have been
significantly slower than
pliosaurs due to
excess drag
incurred from
their large round bodies. She is a great-granddaughter...
- size of
pliosaurs is
difficult because not much is
known of
their postcranial anatomy. The
palaeontologist L. B.
Tarlo suggested that the
pliosaurs’ total...
- 10–12 m (33–39 ft) for the species,
making P.
funkei one of the
largest pliosaurs described so far. Due to its
large size and
relative completeness, the...
- (Turonian–Maastrichtian ages), with the
extinction of the
ichthyosaurs and
pliosaurs,
mosasaurids became the
dominant marine predators. They
themselves became...
