Plesiosauria


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Noun 1. [画像:Plesiosauria - any of the plesiosaurs]Plesiosauria - any of the plesiosaurs
animal order - the order of animals
order Sauropterygia, Sauropterygia - extinct marine reptiles: plesiosaurs; nothosaurs
genus Plesiosaurus - a reptile genus of suborder Plesiosauria
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(2017), which complements that of Benson and Druckenmiller (2014) for Plesiosauria. Two new OTUs were incorporated to the matrix: "K." boyacensis and A.
(2013) and Benson and Druckenmiller (2014) recently carried out phylogenetical analyses of Plesiosauria, they did not introduced changes to the previous diagnosis.
On some new Plesiosauria from the Oxford clay of Peterborough, Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series VIII, 4, 418-429.
Individual essays cover a wide variety of different reptilians, from crocodyliformes to the birdlike aves to the aquatic plesiosauria. Systematically examining the biology, evolutionary history, and environmental/geological context of its subject, Patagonian Mesozoic Reptiles is a technical yet utterly detailed and cutting-edge testimony, and a welcome addition to prehistoric biology and natural history shelves.

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