meaning "lizard") or plesiosaurs are an order or clade of extinct Mesozoic marine reptiles, belonging to the Sauropterygia. Plesiosaurs first appeared in...

speculation that it might be the remains of a sea serpent or prehistoric plesiosaur. Although several scientists insisted it was "not a fish, whale, or any...

This timeline of plesiosaur research is a chronologically ordered list of important fossil discoveries, controversies of interpretation, taxonomic revisions...

This list of plesiosaurs is a comprehensive listing of all genera that have ever been included in the order Plesiosauria, excluding purely vernacular...

belong to the latter. Gastroliths are frequently found associated with plesiosaurs. The first complete plesiosauroid skeletons were found in England by...

Elasmosauridae is an extinct family of plesiosaurs, often called elasmosaurs. They had the longest necks of the plesiosaurs and existed from the Hauterivian...

is no plesiosaur", Leslie Noè of the Sedgwick Museum in Cambridge said: "The osteology of the neck makes it absolutely certain that the plesiosaur could...

Conybeare in 1824 on the basis of Anning's original finds. Compared to other plesiosaur genera, Plesiosaurus has a small head. The skull is much narrower than...

the presence of gastroliths in elasmosaurid plesiosaurs differs from that of the short-necked plesiosaurs. While some fossil gastroliths are rounded and...

Leptocleidus is an extinct genus of plesiosaur, belonging to the family Leptocleididae. It was a small plesiosaur, measuring only up to 3 m (9.8 ft)....