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Skull of Pliosaurus rossicus Novozhilov, 1948 Cast skeleton and skull of Pliosaurus rossicus, Wyoming Dinosaur Center. P. rossicus was first described and named by Nestor Ivanovich Novozhilov in 1948. The specific name is derived from the name of Russia, where the holotype was found.
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 ...
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.
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.
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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.
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.