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	Plesiosaurus - LoveToKnow 1911
		PLESIOSAURUS, an extinct marine reptile belonging to the Order Sauropterygia, which characterized the Mesozoic period and had an almost world-wide distribution (see Reptiles).
		The typical species is Plesiosaurus dolichodeirus, from the Lower Lias of Lyme Regis, which attains a length of about three metres.
		Other species from the same formation seem to have measured five to six metres in length, and there are species of allied genera from the Upper Lias which are probably still larger.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Plesiosaurus (518 words)

	Plesiosaurus - Jurassic Marine Reptile - Plesiosaurus Art Picture 13" x 19"
		Plesiosaurus (which means "near lizard") gave its name to the Plesiosaurs, a group of predatory marine reptiles, because it was the first of its group to be discovered.
		Plesiosaurus probably laid its eggs just like a sea turtle does, in nests that were dug out in the sand.
		Plesiosaurus was first found in 1821; it was probably the first fossil reptile to be seen by scientists.
	store.dinosaurcorporation.com /jurassic3.html (378 words)

	plesiosaurus
		An interesting fact is the Plesiosaurus' long long neck was as big as his body.
		The Plesiosaurus were not dinosaurs but were marine reptiles.
		This reptile's name means "Long Neck." It was the Plesiosaurus that is associated with the Loch Ness Monster.
	www.k12.hi.us /~kapunaha/student_projects/gr2dinos/index/plesiosaurus.htm (242 words)

	Plesiosaurus Printout- ZoomDinosaurs.com
		Plesiosaurus (pronounced plee-zee-oh-SAWR-us) was a genus of flippered marine reptiles that lived during the early Jurassic period.
		Fossils: Plesiosaurus was first found by the famous fossil hunter Mary Anning in 1821 and was named by H.T. De La Beche and William D. Conybeare later that year.
		Plesiosaurus fossils have been found in England and Germany.
	www.enchantedlearning.com /subjects/dinosaurs/dinotemplates/Plesiosaurus.shtml (167 words)

	Reptile Marin. Plesiosaurus. Images (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Plesiosaurus était l’un des premiers membres de cette famille ; il vécut à l’époque du Jurassique primitif.
		Le grand naturaliste anglais William Buckland décrivait l’apparence de Plesiosaurus en prenant l’image d’un serpent que l’on aurait enfilé dans une carapace de tortue.
		Plesiosaurus, l'un des membres les plus anciens, avait déjà développé toutes les caractéristiques des reptiles marins.
	www.dinosoria.com /plesiosaurus.htm (320 words)

	The Plesiosaur Directory - Genera - Plesiosaurus
		Plesiosaurus was the first plesiosaur to be discovered and was the first to be named.
		The genus Plesiosaurus is the sole member of the family Plesiosauridae.
		For example, 'Plesiosaurus' rostratus and 'Plesiosaurus' conybeari have been renamed Archaeonectrus and Attenborosaurus respectively; they are actually both pliosaurids.
	www.geocities.com /sea_saur/plesiosaurus.html (473 words)

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		Plesiosaurus: A marine reptile from the Jurassic Period.
		On the remains of a plesiosaurian reptile (Plesiosaurus australis) from the oolitic formation of the Middle Island of New Zealand.
		Holotype of Plesiosaurus longirostris Blake and the classification of the plesiosaurs.
	pliosaur.freeservers.com /refs.html (4056 words)

	Plesiosaurus opgedoken? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Het zou echter, bezijdens het feit dat het DNA van dit karkas is onderzocht en we weten wat het is geweest, wat te voorbarig zijn geweest om te concluderen dat het om een Plesiosaurus zou gaan.
		Zodoende werd het gerucht de wereld ingezonden dat er een karkas van een Plesiosaurus uit zee was getakeld, met vlees en organen er nog aan vast.
		Aldus kunnen we veilig aannemen dat het een haai was, geen Plesiosaurus of dergelijk zeereptiel.
	www.nadarwin.nl /CFB/plesiosaurus.html (567 words)

	Plesiosauria Translation and Pronunciation Guide
		Proposed for "Plesiosaurus" eurymerus Phillips 1871, a taxon originally based on a forelimb notable for a humerus that widens at the bottom-- the limb was mistaken at first for a hindlimb, thus the misleading species name eurymerus "wide femur." Seeley's type specimen is now lost.
		Plesiosaurus is distinguished from other genera by the small size of its head, as well as by the relative shortness of its skull in front of the orbit and in the temporal region.
		The genus Plesiosaurus has a long and complex taxonomic history, complicated by use of the name as a "wastebasket" genus for various scrappy finds--most proposed species of Plesiosaurus from outside Europe or dating from the Cretaceous are based on such fragmentary material that they cannot be defined in a scientifically useful way.
	www.dinosauria.com /dml/names/ples.html (13351 words)

	StreetPeddler.com
		The name plesiosaurus means "almost lizards" which refers to their shape; not quite lizard but not quite fish.
		The plesiosaurus was up to 26 feet long, with a long neck and two pairs of paddle-like flippers.
		In a sense the Plesiosaurus represents a kind of "u-turn" where fish, having crawled onto land millions of years earlier, decided to go back for a swim.
	www.streetpeddler.com /cgi-bin/street/loch_info.html (342 words)

	Wards Catalog
		The Plesiosaurus was first discovered in 1822, by Conybeare and De la Beche.
		The cranium is quadrate; nostrils small and situated near the eye; teeth slightly recurved, striated, sharp, long, and slender, lodged in distinct alveoli, — the anterior being the longest, The swan-like neck consists of from twenty to forty vertebrae, while living Reptiles have not over nine cervicals.
		The name 'Plesiosaurus macrocephalus' is in need of revision, a matter Mark Evans will deal with in his study of Liassic plesiosaurs.
	www.oceansofkansas.com /WardsCat.html (1369 words)

	Chatwin's Tall Tales in "In Patagonia" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		On one expedition he helped unearth the fossilized skeleton of a plesiosaurus, a small dinosaur related to the modern turtle, which had indeed a neck like a swan.
		First, plesiosaurus was not a dinosaur (it was of a family known as Sauropterygia) and any book written within twenty-five years of 1977, Chatwin's publishing date, could have informed him of this fact.
		And the last point on this subject: plesiosaurus was not related to a turtle and as far as I know, no academic book on the subject of prehistoric fauna has ever suggested otherwise.
	www.scholars.nus.edu.sg /landow/post/uk/chatwin/cooper.html (416 words)

	Searching for Mystery Animals
		Science has generally taught that all of these prehistoric reptilian monsters have long since disappeared, but the story from Patagonia revives a widespread belief that some of them have lived from generation to generation and still exist in isolated savage portions of the globe.
		If the plesiosaurus is really alive, and they catch him, and you are fortunate enough to visit the zoological garden where he is kept, exactly what you will see, in simple language, is a gigantic lizard sixty to eighty feet long.
		So Professor Onelli and his expedition are on their way into Patagonia to find the plesiosaurus, if he does exist, and to "catch him alive," if they can.
	www.strangeark.com /reprints/catch-alive.html (1292 words)

	Plesiosaurus. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		In total length, Plesiosaurus ranged from 10 to 60 ft (3–18 m).
		The term plesiosaur is sometimes applied more generally to all forms in the order Sauropterygia, which produced two lines of marine reptiles.
		The Plesiosaurus is an example of one trend.
	www.bartleby.com /65/pl/plesiosa.html (231 words)

	Plesiosaurus - Jurassic Reptiles
		Plesiosaurus (which means "near lizard") gave its name to the
		Plesiosaurs, a group of predatory marine reptiles, because it was the first of its group to be discovered.
		Plesiosaurus was first found in 1821; it was probably the first fossil
	www.prehistory.com /plesiosa.htm (394 words)

	Plesiosaurs- Enchanted Learning Software
		Plesiosaurus - 7.6 feet (2.3 m) long - with a long neck, 4 wide, paddle-shaped flippers, and a tapered body.
		Many Plesiosaur fossils were found between 1800 and 1821 by Mary Anning, the first professional fossil hunter.
		Plesiosaurus was named by W.D. Conybeare in 1821.
	www.enchantedlearning.com /subjects/dinosaurs/dinos/Plesiosaur.shtml (811 words)

	My Favorite Dinosaur
		Plesiosaurus had one of the longest necks of any animal that ever lived.
		The Plesiosaurus had a body like a turtle and a neck like a giraffe.
		The Plesiosaurus lived in the water and it ate fish.
	www.sae.k12.nf.ca /dino.htm (370 words)

	Prehistoric Sea plesiosaurs pliosaurs Ichthyosaurus Metriorhynchus Eurhinosaurus Liopleurodon Ophthalmosaurus
		Plesiosaurus (Near Lizard) was 7 - 8 feet long and characterized the Mesozoic period.
		Early Jurassic Seas are populated by the dolphin like Ichthyosaurus and the swan necked Plesiosaurus.
		This figure is most likely intended to be Elasmosaurus as the term plesiosaurus is often used as a generic term for all the family.
	www.dinosaurcollector.150m.com /jur_sea.html (424 words)

	Palaeos Vertebrates 220.650 Lepidosauromorpha : Plesiosauroidea (2)
		Since Plesiosaurus was for so long a garbage taxon, most references to Plesiosaurus, other than P.
		On the other hand, the overall shape and proportions of the skull are similar to Plesiosaurus dolichodeirus.
		This genus is now considered incertae sedis (of uncertain relationships), but may perhaps possibly represent a transitional stage between the Plesiosaurus and the Cryptoclididae.
	www.palaeos.com /Vertebrates/Units/220Lepidosauromorpha/220.650.html (820 words)

	"The Plesiosaurus in Politics" by Ellis Parker Butler from Independent
		Here is one man saying it is a genuine old Mesozoic plesiosaurus wallowing in the mud, and here is a man saying that what the fellow saw was a bullfrog.
		One man is willing to bet seventy thousand Russian rubles or even as much as four cents in real money that the thing is an oversized alligator, and the next man wants to bet that the Argentine that brought in the story in time for the mail edition was drunk and dreamed it.
		One man holds the opinion that it was not a plesiosaurus but a two-tusked leather-lunged brontosaurus with pink pin-feathers, and the next man says he knows blame well it is a green elephant with yellow spots because he saw it the last time he had 'em.
	www.ellisparkerbutler.info /epb/biblio.asp?id=4300 (951 words)

	Palaeos Vertebrates 220.600 Lepidosauromorpha : Plesiosauroidea
		Notes: The Plesiosaurus, along with the Ichthyosaurus and the Pterodactyl (Dimorphodon) were among the first Mesozoic reptiles to be recognized.
		Because this was one of the first prehistoric reptiles to be named, it ended up as something of a taxonomic wastebasket, and a great many other Plesiosaur remains were also identified as Plesiosaurus.
		Hence most "Plesiosaurus" species do not belong to this genus at all, and in fact belong to different families altogether (or are simply too incomplete to be properly identified).
	www.palaeos.com /Vertebrates/Units/220Lepidosauromorpha/220.600.html (765 words)

	Snake drawn thru turtle
		Plesiosaurus, adapted from Figure 71 in Owen, R. Palaeontology or a systematic summary of extinct animals and their geological relations.
		The other was the mighty Plesiosaurus, a serpent with a cylindrical trunk, with a short stumpy tail, with fins like a bank of oars in a Roman galley.
		Imagine a thing with the head of a lizard, the teeth of a crocodile, the neck of a swan, the trunk and tail of a quadruped, and the fins of a whale.
	www.oceansofkansas.com /Snaketurtle.html (2183 words)

	Creature Catalog - Preview Creature (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The plesiosaurus is a relative of the aquatic carnivore, elasmosaurus.
		A plesiosaurus is usually around 20 feet in length from nose to tail, and much of this is neck and tail.
		A plesiosaurus has a +8 racial bonus on any Swim check to perform a special action or avoid a hazard.
	www.enworld.org /cc/converted/view_c.php?CreatureID=821 (330 words)

	†Plesiosauria
		†Aptychodon Reuss, 1855 †“Plesiosaurus” ichthyspondylus †“Plesiosaurus” balticus †“Cimoliasaurus” cantabrigiensis †Discosaurus Leidy, 1852 †Dravidosaurus blanfordi Yadagiri and Ayyasami, 1979 [regarded as a stegosaur by the original descriptors] †Orophosaurus Cope, 1887 †Pantosaurus Marsh, 1893 †Piptomerus Cope, 1887 [nomen dubium] †Piratosaurus Leidy, 1865 [nomen dubium]
		Maisch, M. and Rücklin, M., 2000: Cranial osteology of the sauropterygian Plesiosaurus brachypterygius from the Lower Toarcian of Germany.
		Storrs, G. W., 1997: Morphological and taxonomic clarification of the genus Plesiosaurus.
	www.fmnh.helsinki.fi /users/haaramo/metazoa/Deuterostoma/Chordata/Reptilia/Sauropterygia/Plesiosauria.htm (308 words)

	The Dinosaurs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		It was found in Neuquen and lived during the Triassic period.
		Plesiosaurus (which means "near lizard") was first found in 1821; it was probably the first fossil reptile to be seen by scientists.
		It flapped its paddles up and down resembling a "flying" dinosaur as it propel itself through the prehistoric perils of nearby sea dwelling predators.
	www.latinreach.com /planet/patagonia/exhibition/thedinos.htm (1144 words)

	Geology Field Trip Guide - Kimmeridge, Dorset - Kimmeridge Clay Fossils
		Mansell-Pleydell (1888) referred to the discovery of Plesiosaurus brachistospondlylus Hulke, from the Kimmeridge Clay of Kimmeridge.
		Plesiosaurus plicatus Phillips, was also found in the Kimmeridge Clay of Weymouth.
		This genus is closely allied to Plesiosaurus, but differs in its enormous head and extremely short neck.
	www.soton.ac.uk /~imw/kimfoss.htm (7652 words)

	Plesiosaurus - ENCYCLOPEDIA - The History Channel UK
		Plesiosaurus, genus of extinct predatory marine reptiles that arose in the Triassic period of geologic time and continued into the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods.
		Plesiosaurs became extinct at the close of the Mesozoic era.
		In total length, Plesiosaurus ranged from 10 to 60 ft (3-18 m).
	www.thehistorychannel.co.uk /site/search/search.php?word=plesiosa (318 words)

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