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- noun Plural form of
plesiosaur .
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Examples
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Giant predatory reptiles called plesiosaurs terrorized the Cretaceous seas.
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Giant predatory reptiles called plesiosaurs terrorized the Cretaceous seas.
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I know coastal people lump 'em all together (or think that everything west of Illinois and east of Oregon is like, a large prehistoric lake where plesiosaurs roam), but they're different.
intertribal: I see a bad moon rising intertribal 2010
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I know coastal people lump 'em all together (or think that everything west of Illinois and east of Oregon is like, a large prehistoric lake where plesiosaurs roam), but they're different.
things about public education I've learned from this job intertribal 2010
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Not in the sense that I actually believe there are dinosaurs living wild in the Congo, or hairy hominids roaming the North American continent, or plesiosaurs splashing around in a certain well known body of water not too far from where I currently sit (even though I am apparently blind to the evidence provided by Google Earth itself in that last case).
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Dorries are large, friendly sea dinosaurs, resembling plesiosaurs, that were first seen in Super Mario 64.
Dorrie Papercraft | Papercraft Paradise | PaperCrafts | Paper Models | Card Models Michael James 2010
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But it also looks at how marine reptiles (mosasaurs and plesiosaurs) fared across the K/T boundary, vs. the survivorship of marine crocs across the boundary, and the possible reasons why crocs were pretty much unscathed, while non-croc species went extinct.
Addendum: 16 SOUND START greygirlbeast 2008
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There were several good talks in the morning on everything from plesiosaurs, to Deinosuchus in the Kaiparowits and Wahweap formations (in press), to taphonomy of dinosaur bonbeds in the Kaiparowits Formation (one of my favorite talks).
Two great meetings ReBecca Foster 2009
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There were several good talks in the morning on everything from plesiosaurs, to Deinosuchus in the Kaiparowits and Wahweap formations (in press), to taphonomy of dinosaur bonbeds in the Kaiparowits Formation (one of my favorite talks).
Archive 2009-05-01 ReBecca Foster 2009
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If they can "spot" mile-long glass worms and flocks of grazing plesiosaurs…
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