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	Placodonts
		Placodus Agassiz, 1833 is one of the best known and most common of all placodonts and many species have been named, all from the Lower and Upper Muschelkalk (Anisian-Ladinian) of the Germanic Triassic.
		Placodus was large (to 3 m), bulky, and with a long tail.
		The genus Placodus: systematics, morphology, paleobiogeography and paleobiology.
	www.oceansofkansas.com /placodnt.html (3815 words)

	(TB11CQ0) Travel Bug Dog Tag - Placodus
		Current GOAL: Placodus is racing two other travel bugs - Crash & Eddie (TBPTX7) and Skrit (TB11WW6) from California to Maine and back.
		Placodus SCURRIED up Hwy210 to the altitude of 8100ft (elevation of Snowbird Ski Resort) and came along to enjoy a great cache on my lunch break at the Resort.
		Placodus even POSED for a fun "down-canyon" shot before we moved on...
	www.geocaching.com /track/details.aspx?guid=a0d4b536-60f0-4870-8298-262171db3bbf (389 words)

	Glossary P @ Planet Dinosaur
		Placodus was a marine reptile (a placodont) that lived in shallow seas during the early to middle Triassic period.
		This air-breather had four legs, a short neck, a very large, wide head and two types of teeth (peg-like teeth in the front and large, flat teeth in the sides of the mouth).
		Unlike Plesiosaurs and Ichthyosaurs, Placodus was not a very strong swimmer.
	planetdinosaur.com /glossary/p.htm (8584 words)

	DinoTalk: late April 2001 CoolDinos.com
		Placodus looks like it would be very slow and clumsy on land, and the hererrasaur would just run around the placoont and bite it to death.
		The Placodus might be able to crush the Herrerasur's legs in its jaws if it had a chance, but I think the Herrerausaur's speed and agility would allow it to win the match.
		Placodus wasn't in the Valley of the Moon during Eoraptor's time.
	www.littleexplorers.com /dinotalk/old/Apr01b.shtml (2768 words)

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		Placodus is a remote relative of today's turtles with a body length of about two meters.
		With its spatula-like front teeth, placodus loosened attached shells from the sea floor.
		Bone and teeth fragments of Placodus gigas were found in the Trochitenkalk of Schatthausen and Gundelsheim.
	www.m-gleiter.de /notho/placodus_en.html (106 words)

	Lcountries (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The large number of individuals of a single species but the small number of species in total, combined with the relatively small size of the animals compared with other locations were they can be found, suggest an certain environmental stress, most likely to be caused here by periodically hypersaline circumstances.
		As last vertebrate Placodus, (figure 9a and b) another reptile species returned from the land to a more aquatic environment, should be mentioned.
		They too were active swimmers, with sharp cutting teeth and heavy, rather flat grinders, well adapted to eat all kinds of bivalves and lobsterlike animals.
	www.regional-geology.nl /Lcountries/Lcountries.htm (3105 words)

	PLACODONTS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		A row of bony knobs above the backbone and strong belly ribs were its only defense.
		CYAMODONTIDAE - these mid Triassic placodonts had developed turtle-like shells and were more committed to life in the water than Placodus had been.
		As typified by Placochelys, they had a broad, flat body, short tail and elongated paddles for swimming.
	www.dinoruss.org /de_4/5c5d1a0.htm (204 words)

	Lecture 10 - Triassic: Moenkopi, Karroo, Ischigualasto
		Placodus in this reconstruction was about 2.5 m long
		Early on in the Triassic one or two branches of diapsids lost the lower bar of bone below the lower temporal opening.
		One of the more generalized forms was Placodus which probably ate mollusks.
	www.ldeo.columbia.edu /dees/courses/v1001/dinoorig9.html (2353 words)

	†Placodontia
		Huene, 1936 [type destroyed in WWII] -- †Paraplacodus broilii Peyer, 1931a [Paraplacodontidae Peyer and Kuhn-Schnyder, 1955] `--+--o †Placodus Agazzis, 1833 [Anomosaurus, Crurosaurus] L.-M. Trias.
		alpinum Meyer, 1858 [Placochelyanus stoppanii Kuhn, 1969; Placochelys malanchinii; Placochelys stoppanii; Placodus zitteli; ?
		Sues, H.-D., 1987: On the skull of Placodus gigas and the relationships of the Placodontia.
	www.fmnh.helsinki.fi /users/haaramo/Metazoa/Deuterostoma/Chordata/reptilia/sauropterygia/Placodontia.htm (308 words)

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