Pliosauroids, or pliosaurs, are a superfamily of typically short-necked plesiosaurs. They usually have a small number of short neck vertebrae and often have huge skulls, but the earliest …

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] .

Pliosaurs were carnivorous, aquatic, Mesozoic -era (251-65 million years ago) reptiles comprising the suborder Pliosauroidea of the Plesiosauria order, characterized by a broad body, short tail, …

Pliosauroidea is an extinct clade of plesiosaurs, known from the earliest Jurassic to early Late Cretaceous. They are best known for the subclade Thalassophonea, which contained …

The Plesiosauria[ a ][ 4 ] or plesiosaurs are an order or clade of extinct Mesozoic marine reptiles, belonging to the Sauropterygia. Plesiosaurs first appeared in the latest Triassic Period, …

Pliosaurids are a large family of short-necked plesiosaurs within the superfamily Pliosauroidea. They have a reduced number of neck vertebrae and are often large skulls. In some genera the …

Plesiosaurs (=Plesiosauria) are a group of secondarily aquatic carnivorous reptiles belonging to the clade Sauropterygia within the diapsid clade Euryapsida (Taylor 1989, Caldwell 1997a). …

The Pliosaurs ("more lizards") were marine reptiles from the Jurassic and Cretaceous Periods. They originally included members of the family Pliosauridae, of the Order Plesiosauria, but …

The proto-pliosaur Thalassiodracon hawkinsi investigates an ammonite. At this early stage in plesiosaurian evolution, there was very little to distinguish pliosaurs from plesiosaurs; the …

Plesiosaurs were mainly piscivorous animals. The most famous members of this family include Plesiosaurus, Elasmosaurus, Dolichorhynchops and Styxosaurus. The pliosaurs were a group …