2022年9月4日 · While pliosaurs (and plesiosaurs) branched off prior to the evolution of lizards, mosasaurs are true lizards closely related to snakes and monitors.

2022年11月14日 · Pliosaurs were a group of marine reptiles belonging to a now-extinct order of reptiles called plesiosaurs. Their closest living relatives are turtles and tortoises. Mosasaurs were a group of...

Pliosaurs and Mosasaurs Continuing From Last Time... • Given what you know about the find, can you reconstruct a likely model for the late Jurassic ecology of Svalbard? • We have to remember, though, that while mosasaurs were the dominant marine …

Pliosaurus (meaning 'more lizard') is an extinct genus of thalassophonean pliosaurid known from the Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian and Tithonian stages) of Europe and South America. [3] .

2024年1月3日 · Pliosaurs were Plesiosaurs that lived from the Jurassic to the Late Cretaceous. Mosasaurs were Squamates (lizards are an example of a living member of this group) that lived from the late Cretaceous until the K-Pg extinction.

2023年12月11日 · Although the pliosaur and mosasaur looked relatively similar, there are some key differences between the two. The mosasaur had a slimmer reptilian build, measuring an estimated 56 feet in length, whereas the pliosaur was more heavyset and shorter in …

In this weeks video fossil hunter DR Steve Etches MBE talks about giant marine predators. Briefly comparing the Megalodon, Pliosaurs, Mosasaurs and more. W...

2024年1月22日 · Pliosaurs were not a type of dinosaur and belonged to a different family altogether. They were also not mosasaurs, which were actually a group of marine lizards. As far as we know, there are no fully aquatic dinosaur lineages.

As a group, the plesiosaurs were the largest aquatic animals of their time, and even the smallest were about two meters (6.5 feet) long. They grew to be considerably larger than the largest giant crocodiles, and were bigger than their successors, the mosasaurs.

Pliosaur, a group of large carnivorous marine reptiles characterized by massive heads, short necks, and streamlined tear-shaped bodies. Pliosaurs have been found as fossils from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods (about 200 million to 65.5 million years ago).