- short-necked
forms with
large heads and m****ive
toothed jaws,
commonly known as
pliosaurs. More
primitive non-thal****ophonean
pliosauroids resembled plesiosaurs...
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plesiosaurs proper, and short-necked large-headed
pliosaurs. Originally, it was
thought that
plesiosaurs and
pliosaurs were two
distinct superfamilies that followed...
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Almost all
pliosaurs normally have five
pairs of
premaxillary teeth and this
feature of
reduction to four
pairs is
fairly unique among pliosaurs, indicating...
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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...
- thal****ophonean
pliosaurs reached 10–11
metres (33–36 ft), in length, with
around a
quarter of this
length being the head. Thal****ophonean
pliosaurs represented...
-
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...
- (Turonian–Maastrichtian ages), with the
extinction of the
ichthyosaurs and
pliosaurs,
mosasaurids became the
dominant marine predators. They
themselves became...
- 10–12 m (33–39 ft) for the species,
making P.
funkei one of the
largest pliosaurs described so far. Due to its
large size and
relative completeness, the...
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Museum of Saltillo. The "Monster of Aramberri" is one of the
largest pliosaurs ever discovered, but
estimates of its size have
dropped considerably over...
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Monquirasaurus ("Monquirá lizard") is an
extinct genus of
giant short-necked
pliosaurs who
lived during the
Early Cretaceous (Aptian) in what is now Colombia...
