Plesiosaurus
SpeciesPterosaurs and Prehistoric Marine Reptiles
An extinct marine sauropterygian reptile from the Early Jurassic.
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Plesiosaurus
- Pterosaurs and Prehistoric Marine Reptiles
Plesiosaurus is a genus of extinct, large marine sauropterygian reptile that lived during the Early Jurassic. Nearly complete skeletons are known from the Lias of England. Around 3.5 metres long, it had a small head, a long slender neck, a broad turtle-like body, a short tail, and two pairs of elongated paddles. The genus contains one species, Plesiosaurus dolichodeirus, and gave its name to the order Plesiosauria.
- Geological period
- Early Jurassic
- Known species
- Plesiosaurus dolichodeirus
- Fossil locality
- Lias of England
Sources and credits
Sources and credits
- Article
- Plesiosaurus (English Wikipedia)
- Wikidata
- Q857081
- Text
- Card text is adapted from the English Wikipedia article by an automated summary. Wikipedia content is available under CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for its contributors. CC BY-SA 4.0 · Article history and contributors
- Illustration
- By the paleobear. CC BY 2.0 · File page on Wikimedia Commonsthe paleobear, https://www.flickr.com/photos/paleo_bear/25337926128/Modifications: Resized and converted to WebP
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