Pliosauridae is a family of plesiosaurian marine reptiles from the Latest Triassic to the early Late Cretaceous (Rhaetian to Turonian stages) of Australia...
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and smaller heads. They originally included only members of the family Pliosauridae, of the order Plesiosauria, but several other genera and families are...
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when Longman described the taxon in 1924, he assigned it to the family Pliosauridae based on multiple anatomical features, an affiliation which will be mainly...
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(tha-LAS-ee-o-DRAY-kon) is an extinct genus of plesiosauroid from the Pliosauridae that was alive during the Late Triassic-Early Jurassic (Rhaetian-Hettangian)...
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present in all large pliosaurids, and thus possibly paedomorphic within Pliosauridae. Knutsen et al. (2012) diagnosed the species based on a unique combination...
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Liopleurodon belongs to clade Thalassophonea, a short necked clade within the Pliosauridae, a family of plesiosaurs, thalassophoneans ranged from the Middle Jurassic...
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Plesiosaurus. Its specific name means "with a short neck". Later, the Pliosauridae were recognised as having a morphology fundamentally different from the...
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three groups in which plesiosaurs were classified, the others being the Pliosauridae and Plesiosauridae (sometimes merged into one group). Charles Andrews...
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Stenorhynchosaurus munozi Páramo-Fonseca et al., 2016 (Plesiosauria, Pliosauridae), from the Barremian of Colombia: new morphological features and ontogenetic...
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extinct genus and species of a marine reptile belonging to the family Pliosauridae. It lived during the early Cretaceous period (Hauterivian epoch, about...
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Class: Reptilia Superorder: †Sauropterygia Order: †Plesiosauria Family: †Pliosauridae Clade: †Thalassophonea Benson & Druckenmiller, 2013 Subgroups †Gallardosaurus...
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inspections re-identified it as a marine reptile belonging the family Pliosauridae. Initially, only two concretions containing the animal's fossils were...
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when it died. Gallardosaurus was a pliosaurid, a member of the family Pliosauridae, a group of short-necked reptiles that lived during the Mesozoic Era...
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plesiosaurs and pliosauroids are members of Pliosauridae and Rhomaleosauridae. Both Rhomaleosauridae and Pliosauridae were found to be monophyletic, and the...
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three groups in which plesiosaurs were classified, the others being the Pliosauridae and Plesiosauridae (sometimes merged into one group). In 1874 Harry Seeley...
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Historical note on the 1884 discovery of Brachauchenius lucasi (Plesiosauria; Pliosauridae) in Ottawa County, Kansas. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science...
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Class: Reptilia Superorder: †Sauropterygia Order: †Plesiosauria Family: †Pliosauridae Genus: †Attenborosaurus Bakker, 1993 Species: †A. conybeari Binomial...
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"Historical significance and taxonomic status of Ischyrodon meriani (Pliosauridae) from the Middle Jurassic of Switzerland". PeerJ. 10: e13244. doi:10...
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to the exclusion of Plesiosauroidea, either as the sister taxon of Pliosauridae or, rarely, as a paraphyletic array of taxa leading to it. Additionally...
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(April 1986). "Late Cretaceous reptiles (Families Elasmosauridae and Pliosauridae) from the Mangahouanga Stream, North Island, New Zealand". New Zealand...
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"Pliosaurus" andrewsi, they were classified in different genera of the Pliosauridae, a family to which the taxon has always been assigned since. In 1960...
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Lindwurmia? Macroplata Maresaurus Meyerasaurus Rhomaleosaurus Sthenarosaurus Stratesaurus Thaumatodracon Yuzhoupliosaurus? Pliosauridae Plesiosauroidea...
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Genus Species Locality Formation Material Notes Images Pliosauridae Indeterminate Kelheim, Painten Altmühltal Formation, Torleite Formation Isolated teeth...
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Lindwurmia? Macroplata Maresaurus Meyerasaurus Rhomaleosaurus Sthenarosaurus Stratesaurus Thaumatodracon Yuzhoupliosaurus? Pliosauridae Plesiosauroidea...
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Lindwurmia? Macroplata Maresaurus Meyerasaurus Rhomaleosaurus Sthenarosaurus Stratesaurus Thaumatodracon Yuzhoupliosaurus? Pliosauridae Plesiosauroidea...
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R. cramptoni after its final preparation. Both Rhomaleosauridae and Pliosauridae were found to be monophyletic, and the relations between Rhomaleosaurus's...
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Lindwurmia? Macroplata Maresaurus Meyerasaurus Rhomaleosaurus Sthenarosaurus Stratesaurus Thaumatodracon Yuzhoupliosaurus? Pliosauridae Plesiosauroidea...
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Lindwurmia? Macroplata Maresaurus Meyerasaurus Rhomaleosaurus Sthenarosaurus Stratesaurus Thaumatodracon Yuzhoupliosaurus? Pliosauridae Plesiosauroidea...
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Lindwurmia? Macroplata Maresaurus Meyerasaurus Rhomaleosaurus Sthenarosaurus Stratesaurus Thaumatodracon Yuzhoupliosaurus? Pliosauridae Plesiosauroidea...
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