Plesiosaur - Wikipedia In the beginning of the nineteenth century, scientists realised how distinctive their build was and they were named as a separate order in 1835 The first plesiosaurian genus, the eponymous Plesiosaurus, was named in 1821 Since then, more than a hundred valid species have been described
Plesiosaur | Size, Habitat, Facts | Britannica Plesiosaur, any of a group of long-necked marine reptiles found as fossils from the late Triassic Period into the late Cretaceous Period They inhabited marine areas in the Atlantic near Europe and in the Pacific Ocean, including the waters near Australia, North America, and Asia
Plesiosaurs 101 - Education While dinosaurs roamed the Earth, marine reptiles in the order Plesiosauria swam in our planet's prehistoric oceans Find out which creatures belonged in this group, how they grew to incredible sizes, and how they've captivated both scientists and storytellers alike
Plesiosaur - New World Encyclopedia Plesiosaurs (Greek: plesios meaning "near" or "close to" and sauros meaning "lizard") were carnivorous, aquatic (mostly marine) reptiles that lived from the Triassic to the Cretaceous periods They were the largest aquatic animals of their time
Plesiosaurus - Wikipedia Plesiosaurus (Greek: πλησίος (plesios), near to + σαῦρος (sauros), lizard) is a genus of extinct, large marine sauropterygian reptile that lived during the Early Jurassic It is known by nearly complete skeletons from the Lias of England
Plesiosauroidea - Wikipedia Plesiosauroidea ( ˈpliːsiəsɔːr ; Greek: πλησιος plēsios 'near, close to' and σαυρος sauros 'lizard') is an extinct clade of carnivorous marine reptiles They have the snake -like longest neck to body ratio of any reptile Plesiosauroids are known from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods
Plesiosauridae - Wikipedia Categories: Plesiosaurs Jurassic plesiosaurs Hettangian first appearances Late Jurassic extinctions Taxa named by John Edward Gray Plesiosaur stubs
Pliosaurus - Wikipedia Pliosaurus is the type genus (defining example) of the pliosaurs, one of the major group of the plesiosaurs, an extinct group of aquatic marine reptiles It lived from the Upper Jurassic to the Lower Cretaceous in what is now Europe
List of plesiosaur genera - Wikipedia This list of plesiosaurs is a comprehensive listing of all genera that have ever been included in the order Plesiosauria, excluding purely vernacular terms
Plesiosaur - Jurassic Park Wiki Plesiosaurs were marine reptiles that dominated Earth's oceans from the early Jurassic to late Cretaceous They came in two types, the Pliosaurs, which had short necks and enormous skulls and the Plesiosaurs themselves, which had long necks and tiny skulls