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Later on, thorough scrutiny of this Svalbard specimen revealed that it was not as massive as originally claimed; total length estimates have been revised to 10–13 metres (33–43 ft) [5] and was named Pliosaurus funkei in Knutsen et al. (2012), with estimated skull lengths of 1.6–2 m (5.2–6.6 ft) and a forelimb length of 3 m (9.8 ft) for ...
Pliosaurus funkei. Lusonectes sauvagei. Bones of Lusonectes sauvagei: Djupedalia engeri. Avalonnectes arturi. ... Skull of Anningasaura lymense: Zarafasaura oceanis.
An amateur fossil hunter named Simon Carpenter discovered a 7-foot-long Pliosaurus brachyspondylus skull in claypits of the Blue Circle cement works near Westbury, England. More of the skeleton was found in the vicinity and this specimen came to be regarded as the best preserved pliosaur ever found; [85] it is held by Bristol Museum. [86]
Brachauchenius (meaning 'short neck') is an extinct genus of pliosaurs that lived during the Late Cretaceous in what are now North America and North Africa.Only one species is known, B. lucasi, initially described by Samuel Wendell Williston in 1903 from a partial fossil skeleton discovered in a quarry in Kansas, United States.
MCZ 1285, a specimen currently referable to Kronosaurus queenslandicus, from the Early Cretaceous of Australia, was estimated to have a skull length of 2.21–2.85 m (7.3–9.4 ft). [60] [61] A series of neck vertebrae from the Kimmeridge Clay Formation indicate a pliosaur, probably Pliosaurus, that may have been up to 14.4 metres (47 ft) long ...
These dorsal centrum lengths, as well as the skull lengths, of Early Cretaceous pliosaurids, are greater than those of the largest Late Jurassic specimens (dorsal centra range from 100–121 mm in Pliosaurus cf. kevani; CAMSM J.35990 [57]; most dorsal centra are in the range 97–116 mm in Pliosaurus funkei PMO 214.135, only two are greater at ...
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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.