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Pliosaurus
A “more (greater) saurian”) from Middle-Late Jurassic and Creataceous Europe. It was not a dinosaur. Named by British anatomist Sir Richard Owen in 1841.

"Sea Rex Pliosaurs" apparently were as big as buses with teeth the size of bananas.

  • They probably lay in wait and lunged at their prey.
  • They lived in the Jurassic period but were marine reptiles, and again, not dinosaurs.
  • The largest known pliosaur fossil, a 50-foot-long, 150-million-year-old specimen was found by University of Oslo researchers.
  • It was found in a hillside of shale on the high Arctic island of Spitsbergen, 400 miles from Norway's coast.
—Excerpts from "Fossils" by Helen Fields;
National Geographic, December, 2008; page 32.
This entry is located in the following unit: sauro-, saur-, -saurus, -saurid, -saur,
-sauria, -saurian +
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