- Elasmosauridae,
often called elasmosaurs or elasmosaurids, is an
extinct family of
plesiosaurs that
lived from the
Hauterivian stage of the
Early Cretaceous...
- the
dubious Clidastes liodontus. The "Courtenay
elasmosaur", also
known as the "Puntledge
River elasmosaur", is an
informal name
given to an elasmosaurid...
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previously thought to
belong to Thal****omedon.
Styxosaurus was a
large elasmosaur, with a long neck
measuring about 5.25
metres (17.2 ft) in total. The...
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single species,
Albertonectes vanderveldei.
Albertonectes is the
longest elasmosaur, and more
generally plesiosaur,
known to date both in neck and
total body...
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American elasmosaurs from the
Cretaceous of the
western interior". Paludicola. 2 (2): 148–173. Cicimurri, D.; Everhart, M. (2001). "An
Elasmosaur with Stomach...
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American elasmosaurs from the
Cretaceous of the
western interior". Paludicola. 2 (2): 148–173. Cicimurri, D. J.; Everhart, M. J. (2001). "An
elasmosaur with...
- in
forms with very long necks.
Another study found the long
necks of
elasmosaurs would normally increase drag
during forward swimming but this was cancelled...
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elasmosaurid known from the
Ouled Abdoun Basin of Morocco. As a
relatively small elasmosaur, it
would have
measured around 3–4
metres (9.8–13.1 ft) long and weighed...
- (Pleurodira) and one from
Meiolaniidae (Cryptodira).
Plesiosaurs include two
elasmosaurs (Kawanectes and Chubutinectes) and a
polycotylid (Sulcusuchus). Mammals...
- penguin-like
polycotylid plesiosaurs (3
meters long) and huge long-necked
elasmosaurs (13
meters long) also diversified.
These predators fed on the numerous...
