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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...
- plesiosaurs proper, and short-necked large-headed pliosaurs. Originally, it was thought that plesiosaurs and pliosaurs were two distinct superfamilies that followed...
- 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...
- 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...
- evolved into new advanced and modern forms (Neoteleostei). Ichthyosaurs and pliosaurs, on the other hand, became extinct during the Cenomanian-Turonian anoxic...
- Museum of Saltillo. The "Monster of Aramberri" is one of the largest pliosaurs ever discovered, but estimates of its size have dropped considerably over...
- 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...
- large-headed thal****ophonean pliosaurs from ancestrally small-headed, long-necked forms. Some thal****ophonean pliosaurs, such as some species of Pliosaurus...
- 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...