Plesiosaurus pictures and facts

Plesiosaurus was a plesiosaur, a type of marine reptile. It was not a dinosaur, though it coexisted with many dinosaurs. The first Plesiosaurus fossil was discovered in 1821.

Quick facts about Plesiosaurus:

Existed from 228 million years ago to 61.6 million years ago
Lived in a marine environment
Was a carnivore
Reproduced by live birth
938 different specimens have been found by paleontologists

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Locations where Plesiosaurus fossils were found.

Location of Plesiosaurus fossils.

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Plesiosaurus was described by the following scientific paper(s):

H. G. Seeley. 1869. Index to the Fossil Remains of Aves, Ornithosauria, and Reptilia, from the Secondary System of Strata, Arranged in the Woodwardian Museum of the University of Cambridge. Deighton, Bell, and Co, Cambridge
H.-E. Sauvage. 1883. Recherches sur les reptiles trouvés dans l'étage rhétien des environs d'Autun [Research on the reptiles found in the Rhaetian stage of the environs of Autun]. Annales des Sciences Géologiques 14(3):1-44

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