plesiosaur

Definitions

Any of the order †Plesiosauria of extinct marine reptiles, from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods.

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Examples

“"Look⟳!" cried Olson. "Would you look⟳ at the giraffe comin' up out o' the bottom of the say⟳?" We looked in the direction he pointed and saw⟳ a long, glossy neck surmounted by a small head rising above the surface of the river. Presently the back of the creature was exposed, brown and glossy as the water dripped from it. It turned its eyes upon us, opened its lizard-like mouth, emitted a shrill hiss and came for us. The thing must have⟳ been sixteen or eighteen feet in length and closely resembled pictures I had seen of restored plesiosaurs of the lower Jurassic.”

“It is the first time in Australia the head and body of an elasmosaur, a type⟳ of plesiosaur, has been found in one piece.”

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