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Teeth Skull lithograph of L. ferox. Liopleurodon belongs to clade Thalassophonea, a short necked clade within the Pliosauridae, a family of plesiosaurs, thalassophoneans ranged from the Middle Jurassic to early Late Cretaceous, and have been found worldwide. [37] Liopleurodon was one of the basal taxa from the Middle Jurassic.
Later on, thorough scrutiny of this Svalbard specimen revealed that it was not as massive as originally claimed; total length estimates have been revised to 10–13 metres (33–43 ft) [5] and was named Pliosaurus funkei in Knutsen et al. (2012), with estimated skull lengths of 1.6–2 m (5.2–6.6 ft) and a forelimb length of 3 m (9.8 ft) for ...
The skull of a pliosaur, a prehistoric sea monster, was discovered on a beach in Dorset, England, and it could reveal secrets about these awe-inspiring creatures.
A large pliosaur skull is the subject of a BBC documentary, Attenborough and the Giant Sea Monster, which aired on 1 January 2024. The tip of the skull was found by Phil Jacobs when fossil collecting near Kimmeridge Bay.
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"P." andrewsi has a skull that would have had an elongated snout capable of catching agile prey. Its teeth are round in cross section , with some longitudinal ridges on them. Unlike Pliosaurus , " P. " andrewsi is among the most basal representatives of the Thalassophonea , a group of pliosaurids characterized by a short neck .
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Holotype skull. A nearly complete fossil skeleton of a pliosaur, preserved in three dimensions, was found by Gleb N. Uspensky in 2002 on the eastern bank of the Volga River, 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) north of the village of Slantsevy Rudnik in the Ulyanovsk region of western Russia.