plesiosaurs in English

noun
1
a large extinct marine reptile of the Mesozoic era, with a broad flat body, large paddlelike limbs, and typically a long flexible neck and small head.
While dinosaurs ruled the land, the ichthyosaurs, classified variously in the Ichthyosauria or in the Ichthyopterygia, shared the seas of the world with the other great groups of large marine reptiles, the plesiosaurs and mosasaurs.
noun
    plesiosaurus

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1. In the oceans, plesiosaurs, ichthyosaurs and ammonites were abundant.

2. Their prey may have included fish, sharks, ichthyosaurs, dinosaurs and other plesiosaurs.

3. Like all elasmosaurid plesiosaurs, it probably ate small bony fish, belemnites, and ammonites.

4. Paleontology portal List of dinosaurs List of plesiosaurs List of pterosaur classifications Pterosaur Timeline of pterosaur research Haaramo, Mikko (15 November 2005).

5. Archosaur: 1 n group of extinct reptiles including dinosaurs, plesiosaurs, pterosaurs, ichthyosaurs, thecodonts Synonyms: Archosaurian , Archosaurian reptile Types: show 16 types hide 16 types dinosaur any of numerous extinct terrestrial reptiles of the Mesozoic era flying reptile , pterosaur an extinct reptile of the Jurassic and