Pliosaurus - Wikipedia
Pliosaurus (meaning 'more lizard') is an extinct genus of thalassophonean pliosaurid known from the Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian and Tithonian stages) of Europe and South America. [3]
Pliosaur discovery: Huge sea monster emerges from Dorset cliffs
2023年12月10日 · The skull of a colossal sea monster has been extracted from the cliffs of Dorset's Jurassic Coast. It belongs to a pliosaur, a ferocious marine reptile that terrorised the oceans about 150 million ...
Pliosaur | Marine Predator, Jurassic & Cretaceous | Britannica
Pliosaur, a group of large carnivorous marine reptiles characterized by massive heads, short necks, and streamlined tear-shaped bodies. Pliosaurs have been found as fossils from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods (about 200 million to 65.5 million years ago). They are classified in …
The rise of macropredatory pliosaurids near the Early-Middle …
2023年10月16日 · A new Pliosaurus species (Sauropterygia, Plesiosauria) from the Upper Jurassic of Patagonia: new insights on the Tithonian morphological disparity of mandibular symphyseal morphology. J....
Pliosaurus: Facts and Figures - ThoughtCo
2019年3月20日 · Here's an in-depth profile of Pliosaurus, including this marine reptile's characteristics, behavior, and habitat.
Pliosauroidea - Wikipedia
Pliosauroidea is a stem-based taxon that was defined by Welles as "all taxa more closely related to Pliosaurus brachydeirus than to Plesiosaurus dolichodeirus". Pliosauridae and Rhomaleosauridae are stem-based taxa too.
Plesiosaurs and Pliosaurs - The Sea Serpents - ThoughtCo
2019年1月31日 · Plesiosaurs (Greek for "almost lizards") were large, long-necked, four-flippered marine reptiles that paddled their way through the oceans, lakes, rivers, and swamps of the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods. Confusingly, the name "plesiosaur" also encompasses the pliosaurs ("Pliocene lizards," even though they lived tens of millions of years before), which …
Sea Monster Surprise: Ancient Pliosaur Remains Challenge What …
2023年10月22日 · “Famous examples, such as Pliosaurus and Kronosaurus – some of the world’s largest pliosaurs – were absolutely enormous with body lengths exceeding 10 m. They were ecological equivalents of today’s Killer whales and would have eaten a range of prey including squid-like cephalopods , large fish, and other marine reptiles.
Pliosaurs - Natural History Museum
2015年9月14日 · Later, in the Callovian and the Kimmeridgian of the Upper Jurassic even bigger forms evolved like the infamous Liopleurodon and Pliosaurus. These animals were some of the biggest predators ever to roam the worlds' oceans.
This gigantic toothy reptile terrorized the Jurassic oceans - Nature
2023年5月16日 · David Martill and his colleagues at the University of Portsmouth, UK, examined the fossils along with one other vertebra from Cambridgeshire, and concluded that they belonged to pliosaurs ...