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Liopleurodon is a representative of the Thalassophonea clade, a derived group of pliosaurids characterized by a short neck and a large elongated skull. In 1999, the size of Liopleurodon was greatly exaggerated in the BBC documentary series Walking with Dinosaurs, depicted as reaching 25 m (82 ft) in length. However, the different attributed ...
Liopleurodon rossicus. Tithonian [5] Tithonian [5] Tithonian [5] Life restoration of Pliosaurus rossicus--> Liopleurodon pachydeirus. Callovian [5] Callovian [5] Callovian [5] Liopleurodon ferox. Callovian [5] Callovian [5] Callovian [5] Callawayasaurus colombiensis . Aptian [11] Aptian [11] Aptian [11] Skull of Callawayasaurus colombiensis ...
The specimen is today on display at the Natural History Museum, and its inventory number is NHMUK PV R.1330 (formerly BMNH R.1330). It is the earliest discovered more or less complete fossil reptile skeleton in a museum collection.
Pliosaurus brachydeirus is the (combinatio nova of the) type species of the genus. It was first described and named by the English paleontologist Richard Owen in 1841, as a species of the wastebasket taxon Plesiosaurus in its own subgenus Pleiosaurus, creating Plesiosaurus (Pleiosaurus) brachydeirus. [5]
Letter concerning the discovery of the 1823 Plesiosaurus, from Mary Anning.. This timeline of plesiosaur research is a chronologically ordered list of important fossil discoveries, controversies of interpretation, taxonomic revisions, and cultural portrayals of plesiosaurs, an order of marine reptiles that flourished during the Mesozoic Era.
Kronosaurus (/ ˌ k r ɒ n oʊ ˈ s ɔːr ə s / KRON-oh-SOR-əs) is an extinct genus of large short-necked pliosaur that lived during the Aptian to Albian stages of the Early Cretaceous in what is now Australia.
Yellowstone timeline explained. While the hit show Yellowstone may have come out first, the Dutton family tree goes back much further than the Paramount show’s premiere. The series has two ...
Pliosauroidea is an extinct clade of plesiosaurs, known from the earliest Jurassic to early Late Cretaceous.They are best known for the subclade Thalassophonea, which contained crocodile-like short-necked forms with large heads and massive toothed jaws, commonly known as pliosaurs.