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Nothosaurs (superfamily Nothosauroidea) were Tri****ic
marine sauropterygian reptiles. They
averaged about 3
metres (10 ft) in length, with a long body...
- pterosaurs.
Dinosaurs also
arise from
bipedal archosaurs.
Ichthyosaurs and
nothosaurs (a
group of sauropterygians)
dominate large marine fauna.
Cynodonts become...
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Paleontology or
palaeontology is the
study of
prehistoric life
forms on
Earth through the
examination of
plant and
animal fossils. This
includes the study...
- "Enaliosauria", a
classification now
cladistically obsolete), mosasaurs,
nothosaurs, placodonts, sea turtles,
thalattosaurs and thalattosuchians. Most marine...
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These included the Sauropterygia,
which featured pachypleurosaurs and
nothosaurs (both
common during the
Middle Tri****ic,
especially in the
Tethys region)...
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adapted to an
aquatic environment. It is
thought that one
branch of the
nothosaurs may have
evolved into
pliosaurs such as Liopleurodon, a short-necked plesiosaur...
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quickly grew to be
several metres long and
spread into
shallow waters (
nothosaurs). The Tri****ic-Jur****ic
extinction event wiped them all out
except for...
- eye
sockets but not as big as
those of
other nothosaurs.
Simosaurus also
differs from
other nothosaurs in that it has
blunt teeth that were probably...
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measuring up to 80 cm (2.6 ft) long, it was one of the
smallest known nothosaurs.
First discovered at
Perledo on the Lake Como in 1830, it was
named in...
- Italy,
Switzerland and Germany.
Neusticosaurus was one of the
smallest nothosaurs and
probably fed on
small fish. Cornalia, E. (1854). "Notizie zoologiche...
