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- noun zoology Any of the Elasmosauridae, a
family of long-neckedplesiosaurs .
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Oh, I also made it through two articles in the new Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology yesterday, "Generic reassignment of an ichthyosaur from the Queen Elizabeth Islands, Northwest Territories, Canada" and "A remarkable case of a shark-bitten elasmosaurid plesiosaur."
Howard Hughes and the 1934 World's Fair yuki_onna 2010
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Oh, I also made it through two articles in the new Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology yesterday, "Generic reassignment of an ichthyosaur from the Queen Elizabeth Islands, Northwest Territories, Canada" and "A remarkable case of a shark-bitten elasmosaurid plesiosaur."
Howard Hughes and the 1934 World's Fair yuki_onna 2010
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Conventionally imagined as a dainty-headed predator of small prey, and an early elasmosaurid, new specimens show that it was quite robust-skulled with features suggesting that its head was well suited for handling fairly large prey (M. Evans, data presented at SVPCA).
Archive 2006-07-01 Darren Naish 2006
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Conventionally imagined as a dainty-headed predator of small prey, and an early elasmosaurid, new specimens show that it was quite robust-skulled with features suggesting that its head was well suited for handling fairly large prey (M. Evans, data presented at SVPCA).
Life in the Oxford Clay sea Darren Naish 2006
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Two newly discovered elasmosaurid plesiosaur specimens from the Cretaceous contained a surprise that told us a little more about their diet.
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Two newly discovered elasmosaurid plesiosaur specimens from the Cretaceous contained a surprise that told us a little more about their diet.
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Rather than being an elasmosaurid, it may in fact be a close relative of the cryptoclidids (O’Keefe 2001).
Archive 2006-07-01 Darren Naish 2006
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Rather than being an elasmosaurid, it may in fact be a close relative of the cryptoclidids (O’Keefe 2001).
Life in the Oxford Clay sea Darren Naish 2006
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