name Dakosaurus means "biter lizard", and is derived from the Greek dakos ("biter") and σαῦρος -sauros ("lizard"). The type species Dakosaurus maximus...

(1885) referred the species to the genus Dakosaurus. Lydekker (1888) synonymized P. manselii with Dakosaurus maximus while Fraas (1902) regarded the two...

suggested that Aggiosaurus is a junior synonym of Dakosaurus, and that A. nicaeensis is referrable to Dakosaurus as a distinct species provisionally. They based...

North America Liopleurodon, a medium-sized sea-going pliosaur from Europe Dakosaurus, a medium-sized sea-going crocodylomorph from Europe Perisphinctes, an...

then these specimens were recognised as belonging to a new species of Dakosaurus, as D. carpenteri. The species was named to honour Simon Carpenter, an...

suggest that metriorhynchids gave live birth. A fossil of a pregnant Dakosaurus female recovered from the Late Jurassic plattenkalk, Bavaria, preserves...

Suchodus, Purranisaurus, Neptunidraco, Tyrannoneustes, Torvoneustes, Dakosaurus, Geosaurus and Plesiosuchus. The last five taxa form a tribe within Geosaurinae...

the United Kingdom and the Cloverfield monster of the United States. Dakosaurus is an extinct sea crocodile of the Jurassic Period, which researchers...

galilei (a loricatan), Pedeticosaurus leviseuri (a sphenosuchian), Chenanisuchus lateroculi (a dyrosaurid), and Dakosaurus maximus (a thalattosuchian)....

fossil site, most were assigned to the metriorhynchid genera Cricosaurus, Dakosaurus, Geosaurus and Rhacheosaurus. These genera are colloquially called as...

Dakosaurus lissocephalus Cricosaurus...

Cretaceous Metriorhynchoidea Eoneustes Teleidosaurus Zoneait Aggiosaurus Dakosaurus Enaliosuchus Geosaurus Metriorhynchus Neustosaurus Purranisaurus Teleidosaurus...

Dakosaurus maximus Dakosaurus andiniensis...

Caypullisaurus is attacked by the crocodylomorph Dakosaurus....

schnaitheimi. It is a nomen nudum, the fossils possibly belonging to Dakosaurus maximus. In 1876, J. Henry, a science teacher at Besançon, in a published...

founded by rapper Yukmouth Godzilla (singer) (1988–2019), Tanzanian singer Dakosaurus andiniensis, an extinct species of marine crocodilian Ford Godzilla engine...

or thalattosuchian. Geosaurus was similar in appearance to the related Dakosaurus with a relatively short skull and curved teeth designed for slashing,...

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had a hip anatomy conducive for live birth and evidence from the genus Dakosaurus does show that they did this.. Metriorhynchus can be distinguished from...

subsequently found to be a metriorhynchid; junior objective synonym of Dakosaurus or Geosaurus Brachytrachelopan Bradycneme Brasileosaurus – subsequently...

Aggiosaurus Dakosaurus Purranisaurus Torvoneustes Tyrannoneustes Geosaurina Geosaurus Ieldraan Plesiosuchina Plesiosuchus Suchodus...

had been considered a junior synonym of Metriorhynchus, Geosaurus or Dakosaurus by different palaeontologists in the past. Some phylogenetic analysis...

published by Schwab et al. (2021). A study on the anatomy of the snout of Dakosaurus andiniensis, and on the evolution of the facial anatomy of thalattosuchians...

reptiles. The marine crocodile Metriorhynchus had paddle-like forelimbs, Dakosaurus andiniensis had a skull that was adapted to eat large sea reptiles, and...

limestone, early Tithonian) of Bavaria, Germany: Rhacheosaurus gracilis, Dakosaurus maximus, Geosaurus giganteus and Cricosaurus suevicus. It has been hypothesised...

their longirostrine skulls, the only exceptions being the short-skulled Dakosaurus andiniensis and Turnersuchus. Although Turnersuchus had slender jaws,...

Acuetzpalin are known from the formation, as well as the metriorhynchid Dakosaurus and indeterminate pliosaurs. Earth sciences portal Mexico portal Paleontology...

Notes Images Cricosaurus C. araucanensis A metriorhynchine metriorhynchid Dakosaurus D. andiniensis A geosaurine metriorhynchid Geosaurus G. araucanensis A...

and Machimosaurus. The metriorhynchid thalatosuchians Torvoneustes and Dakosaurus. The hybodontid shark Asteracanthus. The thalassochelydian turtle Thalassemys...

the Mammilatum Zone, which dates to the lower Albian. Crocodylia indet. Dakosaurus sp. Erectopus superbus Hylaeosaurus sp. Pervushovisaurus campylodon Plesiosauria...