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ratio of any reptile.
Plesiosauroids are
known from the Jur****ic and
Cretaceous periods.
After their discovery, some
plesiosauroids were said to have resembled...
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Latest Tri****ic, i.e. Rhaetian)
primitive pliosauroids were very like
plesiosauroids in
appearance and, indeed, used to be
included in the
family Plesiosauridae...
- the
morphology of the epipodials. A
review of all
nominal species of
plesiosauroids from the Late Jur****ic of
England resulted in the
recognition of one...
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Franconiasaurus fills an
evolutionary gap
between more
basal taxa (like
early plesiosauroids including Plesiosaurus-like
forms and microcleidids) and later-diverging...
- Clay
Formation of the U.K., and high
diversity among Late Jur****ic
plesiosauroids".
Journal of
Vertebrate Paleontology. 34 (5): 1053–1071. doi:10.1080/02724634...
- of
central Chile, with
comments on the
affinities of Late
Cretaceous plesiosauroids from the
Weddellian Biogeographic Province".
Cretaceous Research. 37:...
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Leptocleidia is a
clade of
plesiosauroids. The
group was
erected in 2007 as Leptocleidoidea.
Although established as a clade, the name Leptocleidoidea...
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Cretaceous members of the
group were
reclassified as
other kinds of
plesiosauroids.
Kaiwhekea was
reclassified to Leptocleididae, and
Aristonectes was...
- its relatives,
which have
short necks and
large heads relatively to
plesiosauroids like
Elasmosaurus and Plesiosaurus, but
longer necks and
smaller heads...
- Plesiosauria,
which includes the short-necked
pliosaurs and long
necked plesiosauroids. Type
specimens are
those which are
definitionally members of biological...
