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Liopleurodon ferox first came to the public attention in 1999 when it was featured in an episode of the BBC television series Walking with Dinosaurs, which depicted it as an enormous 25 m (82 ft) long and 150 t (330,000 lb) predator; this was based on very fragmentary remains, and considered to be an exaggeration for Liopleurodon, [31] with the ...
[34]: 249–251 [35] The large, powerful pliosaurid Liopleurodon ferox appears to have been adapted to take on large prey, including other marine reptiles and large fish. [34]: 242–243, 249–251 The long-snouted Eardasaurus powelli like Liopleurodon also has teeth with cutting edges and may have also taken large prey. [4]
This list of fossil fish research presented in 2024 is a list of new fossil taxa of jawless vertebrates, placoderms, cartilaginous fishes, bony fishes, and other fishes that were described during the year, as well as other significant discoveries and events related to paleoichthyology that occurred in 2024.
These were characterized by a large head and a short neck, such as Liopleurodon and Simolestes. These forms had skulls up to three metres (ten feet) long and reached a length of up to seventeen metres (56 feet) and a weight of ten tonnes. The pliosaurids had large, conical teeth and were the dominant marine carnivores of their time.
Sauvage described the new species Liopleurodon ferox. [19] Joseph Savage discovered a second, better preserved Trinacromerum "anonymum" in Kansas. [31] Life restoration of Mauisaurus haasti, described by Hector in 1874. 1874. Hector described the new species Mauisaurus haasti. [19] Seeley described the new species Muraenosaurus leedsi. [19]
The fauna of Morrison Formation is similar to one in the coeval rocks of Tendaguru Beds (in Tanzania) and Lourinhã Formation in Portugal, [1] mostly with the second. Some genera are shared in Morrison and Lourinhã, such as Torvosaurus, [2] Ceratosaurus, [3] Stegosaurus, Dryosaurus, [4] and Allosaurus. [5]
Life restoration of the "Monster of Aramberri". The "Monster of Aramberri", also nicknamed in the scientific literature as the Aramberri pliosaur or the Aramberri specimen, is an informal name given to UANL-FCT-R2, a fossil skeleton of a very large pliosaur of which the first remains were discovered during the 1980s near the town of Aramberri, in Nuevo León, Mexico.
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. [9]