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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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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. J.; Everhart, M. J. (2001). "An
elasmosaur with...
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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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beneath Urquhart Castle,
where they
encounter a
family of
plesiosaur and
elasmosaur hybrids.
Isabel can
communicate with them
through a
series of whistles...
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forms with very long necks.
Another study found the long
necks of
elasmosaurs would normally increase drag
during forward swimming but this was cancelled...
- penguin-like
polycotylid plesiosaurs (3
meters long) and huge long-necked
elasmosaurs (13
meters long) also diversified.
These predators fed on the numerous...
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opportunity for many
great marine dinosaur discoveries, like the
Elasmosaur and the Mosasaur. The
first major paleontological discovery in Courtenay...
- and the
persistently primitive Suevoleviathan) and
plesiosaurs (the
elasmosaurs (long-necked)
Microcleidus and Occitanosaurus, and the
pliosaur Hauffiosaurus)...
