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Plesiosaurus (Gr****: πλησίος (plesios), near to + σαῦρος (sauros), lizard) is a
genus of extinct,
large marine sauropterygian reptile that
lived during...
- 1841, as a
species of the
wastebasket taxon Plesiosaurus in its own
subgenus Pleiosaurus,
creating Plesiosaurus (Pleiosaurus) brachydeirus.
Later that year...
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another Plesiosaurus species by
William Johnson Sollas in 1881, but
after studies on the
plaster casts made
after the remains,
Plesiosaurus conybeari...
- the last
common ancestor of
Plesiosaurus dolichocheirus and
Peloneustes philarchus and all its descendants.
Plesiosaurus and
Peloneustes represented the...
- Kingdom. It was
described by the
British paleontologist Richard Owen as
Plesiosaurus constrictus in 1850; Owen
named the
species after the
extremely narrow...
- her re****tion grew. On 10 December 1823, she
found the
first complete Plesiosaurus, and in 1828 the
first British example of the
flying reptiles known as...
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Lower Lias of England. The type and only species, is Thal****iodracon (
Plesiosaurus)
hawkinsii (Owen, 1838). Thal****iodracon
hawkinsii is
known from a number...
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reptiles from the Age of the Dinosaurs,
namely an
Ichthyosaurus and a
Plesiosaurus, in
which a
fight between the
monsters almost endangers the raft. A lightning...
- comparison,
Plesiosaurus has 27 neck vertebrae, but
because each
individual vertebrae of
Plesiopterys is shorter, it has a
longer neck than
Plesiosaurus, though...
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after discovering that the
Mesozoic reptile Plesiosaurus conybeari did not
belong to the
genus Plesiosaurus, the
palaeontologist Robert Bakker renamed...
