- short-necked
forms with
large heads and m****ive
toothed jaws,
commonly known as
pliosaurs. More
primitive non-thal****ophonean
pliosauroids resembled plesiosaurs...
-
plesiosaurs proper, and short-necked large-headed
pliosaurs. Originally, it was
thought that
plesiosaurs and
pliosaurs were two
distinct superfamilies that followed...
-
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...
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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...
-
Almost all
pliosaurs normally have five
pairs of
premaxillary teeth and this
feature of
reduction to four
pairs is
fairly unique among pliosaurs, indicating...
-
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...
- or
belonging to
another genus.
Kronosaurus is one of the
largest known pliosaurs identified to date.
Initial estimates set its
maximum size at
around 13 m...
- 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...
- declining, had
disappeared in the Cenomanian-Turonian
boundary event.
Though pliosaurs had gone
extinct in the same event, long-necked
plesiosaurs such as Elasmosaurus...
- large-headed thal****ophonean
pliosaurs from
ancestrally small-headed, long-necked forms. Some thal****ophonean
pliosaurs, such as some
species of Pliosaurus...
