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Pliosauridae is a
family of
plesiosaurian marine reptiles from the
Latest Tri****ic to the
early Late
Cretaceous (Rhaetian to
Turonian stages). The family...
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smaller heads. They
originally included only
members of the
family Pliosauridae, of the
order Plesiosauria, but
several other genera and
families are...
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present in all
large pliosaurids, and thus
possibly paedomorphic within Pliosauridae.
Knutsen et al. (2012)
diagnosed the
species based on a
unique combination...
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Liopleurodon belongs to
clade Thal****ophonea, a
short necked clade within the
Pliosauridae, a
family of plesiosaurs, thal****ophoneans
ranged from the
Middle Jur****ic...
- Plesiosaurus. Its
specific name
means "with a
short neck". Later, the
Pliosauridae were
recognised as
having a
morphology fundamentally different from the...
- when
Longman described the
taxon in 1924, he ****igned it to the
family Pliosauridae based on
multiple anatomical features, an
affiliation which will be mainly...
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plesiosaurs were
often classified during the 19th century,
along with the
Pliosauridae and the Plesiosauridae. However, most of
these traits led to many genera...
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Mixosaurus Platypterygius Temnodontosaurus This
section lists the
known Pliosauridae:
Kronosaurus Liopleurodon Pliosaurus This
section lists the
known Mosasaurs:...
- (tha-LAS-ee-o-DRAY-kon) is an
extinct genus of
plesiosauroid from the
Pliosauridae that was
alive during the Late Tri****ic-Early Jur****ic (Rhaetian-Hettangian)...
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inspections re-identified it as a
marine reptile belonging to the
family Pliosauridae. Initially, two
concretions only
containing the animal's
fossils were...
