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Definition of Pliosaur
1. Noun. Any of several plesiosaurs, of the family ''Pliosauridae'', from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Pliosaur
1. a type of fossil marine reptile [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pliosaur
Literary usage of Pliosaur
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report of the Annual Meeting (1842)
"The teeth of the pliosaur present varieties of form as well as of size ...
The germs of the successional teeth in the pliosaur were developed at the inner ..."
2. Journal by Liverpool Geological Association (1886)
"The allied pliosaur differed little from the above, except that the head and
limbs were more massive and the neck much shorter. ..."
3. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1897)
"... a pliosaur from the Oxford Clay. Extr. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist, London (6), XVI,
1895. From the author. Annual Report of the Board of Managers of the ..."
4. Geological Magazine by Henry Woodward (1895)
"This element, which must be regarded as a parasphenoid, is well shown in some
pliosaur skulls in the British ..."
5. Manual of Geology: Treating of the Principles of the Science with Special by James Dwight Dana (1866)
"... of which twelve were found in the Lias and seven in the Oolite. The pliosaur
is another swimming Saurian, near the Plesiosaur: some ..."
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