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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]
Most media put the size of the Aramberri pliosaur at between 19 and 20 m (62 and 66 ft) long and consider it as a representative of Liopleurodon. [8] [2] [10] [3] The depiction of Liopleurodon in the 1999 BBC documentary series Walking with Dinosaurs, where it is depicted as reaching 25 m (82 ft) in length and weighing 150 t (150 long tons; 170 ...
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]
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.
[10]: 3 The back of the skull was more lightly built than in some other larger theropods due to extensive skull openings, yet the jaws were deep to support the proportionally large teeth. [ 7 ] : 277 The lacrimal bone formed not only the back margin of the antorbital fenestra , a large opening between eye and bony nostril , but also part of its ...
Diabloceratops (/ d aɪ ˌ æ b l oʊ ˈ s ɛr ə t ɒ p s / dy-AB-loh-SERR-ə-tops) is an extinct genus of centrosaurine ceratopsian dinosaur that lived approximately 81.4-81 million years ago during the latter part of the Cretaceous Period in what is now Utah, in the United States. [1]
[23] [15] A study looking at the growth and longevity of the basking shark suggested that individuals larger than ~10 m (33 ft) are unlikely. [24] This is the second-largest extant fish species, after the whale shark. [4] Beached basking shark. They possess the typical shark lamniform body plan and have been mistaken for great white sharks. [25]