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Pliosaurus
Pliosaurus Pli`o*sau"rus, n. [NL., from Gr. ? greater + ? lizard.] (Paleon.) An extinct genus of marine reptiles allied to Plesiosaurus, but having a much shorter neck.

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- short-necked forms with large heads and m****ive toothed jaws, commonly known as pliosaurs. More primitive non-thal****ophonean pliosauroids resembled plesiosaurs...
- series of neck vertebrae from the Kimmeridge Clay Formation indicate a pliosaur, probably Pliosaurus, that may have been up to 14.4 metres (47 ft) long...
- (/ˌmɛɡəˈsɛfəloʊˈsɔːrəs/; "great-headed lizard") is an extinct genus of short-necked pliosaur that inhabited the Western Interior Seaway of North America about 94 to...
- Kimmeridge Clay Formation, dating to the late Kimmeridgian. Nicknamed "Westbury pliosaur II", it was first described by S****oon et al. (2012) who, together with...
- meaning 'smooth-sided teeth') is an extinct genus of carnivorous pliosaurid pliosaurs that lived from the Callovian stage of the Middle Jur****ic to the Kimmeridgian...
- the Aramberri pliosaur or the Aramberri specimen, is an informal name given to UANL-FCT-R2, a fossil skeleton of a very large pliosaur of which the first...
- (Turonian–Maastrichtian ages), with the extinction of the ichthyosaurs and pliosaurs, mosasaurids became the dominant marine predators. They themselves became...
- support powerful flipper strokes. Some later sauropterygians, such as the pliosaurs, developed a similar mechanism in their pelvis. Other than being diapsids...
- ichthyosaur from Europe and North America Liopleurodon, a medium-sized sea-going pliosaur from Europe Dakosaurus, a medium-sized sea-going crocodylomorph from Europe...
- sea, as seen in other pterosaur specimens collected by Etches. A large pliosaur skull is the subject of a BBC do****entary, Attenborough and the Giant Sea...