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pliosaur
n. Any of several plesiosaurs, of the family ''(taxlink Pliosauridae family)'', from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods
Usage examples of "pliosaur".
We can imagine a sleek pliosaur, looking like a seal, racing in and out of the kelp as it chases a small school of fish.
Measuring some twenty-five meters long, with jaws alone some three meters long, their sole stratagem to rip and shake their prey apart, the pliosaurs were the largest carnivores in the history of the planet.
Through the increasingly muddy and turbulent water she glimpsed much larger creatures, even giant pliosaurs, being dragged backward by this mighty tide.
The other type are short-necked, large-headed forms variously called pliosaurs or polycotylids.