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Definition of Plesiosaurs
1. plesiosaur [n] - See also: plesiosaur
Lexicographical Neighbors of Plesiosaurs
Literary usage of Plesiosaurs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Fieldiana: Geology by Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago Natural History Museum (1907)
"258 New Crinoids from the Chicago Area 273 Nichols, HW, Analyses by, 205, 216,
222, 224 North American plesiosaurs, Part I, i Notes on American Pterosaurs, ..."
2. Phases of Animal Life, Past and Present by Richard Lydekker (1892)
"plesiosaurs, OR LONG-NECKED SEA-LIZARDS. IN the last chapter we gave a description
of the remains of those remarkable marine reptiles from the Secondary ..."
3. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1904)
"That the plesiosaurs had a gizzard-like stomach I do not believe, but I see
nothing startling in ... His argument, that, if the plesiosaurs were of lith- ..."
4. Water Reptiles of the Past and Present by Samuel Wendell Williston (1914)
"It would seem probable that all the early plesiosaurs had long necks, ...
The structure of the jaws and their attachments are quite as in the plesiosaurs, ..."
5. The New International Encyclopædia by Daniel Colt Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1903)
"American representatives of the plesiosaurs have been found in the Upper Jurassic
... plesiosaurs. as Cuvier expressed it, combine the paddles of a whale, ..."
6. The Kansas University Science Bulletin by University of Kansas (1902)
"In the long-necked plesiosaurs the head is broader, Matter, ... plesiosaurs, or
at least some of the long-necked forms, had the strange habit of swallowing ..."
7. Fieldiana: Geology by Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago Natural History Museum (1907)
"258 New Crinoids from the Chicago Area 273 Nichols, HW, Analyses by, 205, 216,
222, 224 North American plesiosaurs, Part I, i Notes on American Pterosaurs, ..."
8. Phases of Animal Life, Past and Present by Richard Lydekker (1892)
"plesiosaurs, OR LONG-NECKED SEA-LIZARDS. IN the last chapter we gave a description
of the remains of those remarkable marine reptiles from the Secondary ..."
9. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1904)
"That the plesiosaurs had a gizzard-like stomach I do not believe, but I see
nothing startling in ... His argument, that, if the plesiosaurs were of lith- ..."
10. Water Reptiles of the Past and Present by Samuel Wendell Williston (1914)
"It would seem probable that all the early plesiosaurs had long necks, ...
The structure of the jaws and their attachments are quite as in the plesiosaurs, ..."
11. The New International Encyclopædia by Daniel Colt Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1903)
"American representatives of the plesiosaurs have been found in the Upper Jurassic
... plesiosaurs. as Cuvier expressed it, combine the paddles of a whale, ..."
12. The Kansas University Science Bulletin by University of Kansas (1902)
"In the long-necked plesiosaurs the head is broader, Matter, ... plesiosaurs, or
at least some of the long-necked forms, had the strange habit of swallowing ..."
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