The Plesiosauria or plesiosaurs are an order or clade of extinct Mesozoic marine reptiles, belonging to the Sauropterygia. Plesiosaurs first appeared in...
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Zuiyo-maru carcass (section Plesiosaur)
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...
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This list of plesiosaurs is a comprehensive listing of all genera that have ever been included in the order Plesiosauria, excluding purely vernacular...
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Plesiosauroidea (redirect from Long-necked plesiosaur)
belong to the latter. Gastroliths are frequently found associated with plesiosaurs. The first complete plesiosauroid skeletons were found in England by...
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Elasmosauridae (category Cretaceous plesiosaurs)
Elasmosauridae is an extinct family of plesiosaurs, often called elasmosaurs. They had the longest necks of the plesiosaurs and existed from the Hauterivian...
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This timeline of plesiosaur research is a chronologically ordered list of important fossil discoveries, controversies of interpretation, taxonomic revisions...
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Loch Ness Monster (section Plesiosaur)
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...
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Plesiosaurus (category Early Jurassic plesiosaurs of Europe)
finds. It is mainly known for being black and spiky. Compared to other plesiosaur genera, Plesiosaurus has a small head. The skull is much narrower than...
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surviving specimens of giant marine reptiles, such as an ichthyosaur or plesiosaur, from the Jurassic and Cretaceous Periods, or extinct whales like Basilosaurus...
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the presence of gastroliths in elasmosaurid plesiosaurs differs from that of the short-necked plesiosaurs. While some fossil gastroliths are rounded and...
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