Definition of Pleiosaurus. Meaning of Pleiosaurus. Synonyms of Pleiosaurus

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Definition of Pleiosaurus

Pleiosaurus
Pleiosaurus Plei`o*sau"rus, n. [NL.] (Paleon.) Same as Pliosaurus.

Meaning of Pleiosaurus from wikipedia

- wastebasket taxon Plesiosaurus in its own subgenus Pleiosaurus, creating Plesiosaurus (Pleiosaurus) brachydeirus. Later that year or in 1842, Owen published...
- himself to the County Museum of Dorset. These included a fore paddle of a Pleiosaurus macromerus, and the tusks and molars of a Mammuthus meridionalis. After...
- P. philarchus, he also reclassified "Plesiosaurus" sterrodeirus and "Pleiosaurus" aequalis (a species named by John Phillips in 1871): 365  as members...
- which are rather well preserved, was ****igned the scientific name of Pleiosaurus? grandis in Phillips' review.: 317–318  The specimen consists of an elongated...