- name
Dakosaurus means "biter lizard", and is
derived from the Gr****
dakos ("biter") and σαῦρος -sauros ("lizard"). The type
species Dakosaurus maximus...
- then
these specimens were
recognised as
belonging to a new
species of
Dakosaurus, as D. carpenteri. The
species was
named to
honour Simon Carpenter, an...
- (1885)
referred the
species to the
genus Dakosaurus.
Lydekker (1888)
synonymized P.
manselii with
Dakosaurus maximus while Fraas (1902)
regarded the two...
-
suggested that
Aggiosaurus is a
junior synonym of
Dakosaurus, and that A.
nicaeensis is
referrable to
Dakosaurus as a
distinct species provisionally. They based...
-
suggest that
metriorhynchids gave live birth. A
fossil of a
pregnant Dakosaurus female recovered from the Late Jur****ic plattenkalk, Bavaria, preserves...
-
North America Liopleurodon, a medium-sized sea-going
pliosaur from
Europe Dakosaurus, a medium-sized sea-going
crocodylomorph from
Europe Perisphinctes, an...
- the
United Kingdom and the
Cloverfield monster of the
United States.
Dakosaurus is an
extinct sea
crocodile of the Jur****ic Period,
which researchers...
- reptiles. The
marine crocodile Metriorhynchus had paddle-like forelimbs,
Dakosaurus andiniensis had a
skull that was
adapted to eat
large sea reptiles, and...
-
fossil site, most were ****igned to the
metriorhynchid genera Cricosaurus,
Dakosaurus,
Geosaurus and Rhacheosaurus.
These genera are
colloquially called as...
-
galilei (a loricatan),
Pedeticosaurus leviseuri (a sphenosuchian),
Chenanisuchus lateroculi (a dyrosaurid), and
Dakosaurus maximus (a thalattosuchian)....
