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  2. Gigantic skull of prehistoric sea monster found on England’s ...

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    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.

  3. Pliosauroidea - Wikipedia

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    The fossils were found much earlier, in 1985, by a geology student and were at first erroneously attributed to a theropod dinosaur by Hahnel. [12] The remains originally contained part of a rostrum with teeth (now lost). In August 2006, palaeontologists of the University of Oslo discovered the first remains of a pliosaur on Norwegian soil. The ...

  4. Fossil Forest, Dorset - Wikipedia

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    Near the end of the Jurassic period (c.144 million years ago) the sea levels dropped and a number of islands emerged in the Purbeck area, surrounded by saline lagoons and channels. [3] For a short period, soil formed and a tropical forest grew up. It then flooded under a shallow saline lagoon. The remains are now preserved as the Fossil Forest.

  5. Kimmeridge Clay - Wikipedia

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    Kimmeridge Clay is named after the village of Kimmeridge on the Dorset coast of England, where it is well exposed and forms part of the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site. [2] Onshore, it is of Late Jurassic ( Kimmeridgian ) age and outcrops across England, in a band stretching from Dorset in the south-west, north-east to North Yorkshire .

  6. Pliosaur discovery: Huge sea monster emerges from Dorset cliffs

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  8. Steve Etches - Wikipedia

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    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.

  9. Thaumatodracon - Wikipedia

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    Thaumatodracon is a genus of rhomaleosaurid pliosaur from the early Jurassic found in the United Kingdom. It contains a single species, named by Adam Smith and Ricardo Araújo in 2017. [1] In early 1969, German amateur paleontologist Kurt Wiedenroth at the coast of Dorset between Lyme Regis and Charmouth discovered a plesiosaur skeleton. At ...

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