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Definition of Pliosaurs
1. pliosaur [n] - See also: pliosaur
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pliosaurs
Literary usage of Pliosaurs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Handbook to the Natural History of Cambridgeshire by J. E. Marr, Arthur Everett Shipley (1904)
"Remains of the species are also stated to occur in the Oxford Clay of Whittlesea.
Of the slender-jawed pliosaurs the above- mentioned ..."
2. Phases of Animal Life, Past and Present by Richard Lydekker (1892)
"These creatures, which are known by the name of pliosaurs, although agreeing with
the Long-Necked Lizards in the structure of their paddles and backbone, ..."
3. Nature by Norman Lockyer (1878)
"... encased in a much stronger and more complete dermal armour than their successors,
doubtless for their protection from the great ichthyosaurs, pliosaurs, ..."
4. Fieldiana: Geology by Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago Natural History Museum (1907)
"If so, the short-necked pliosaurs must represent a distinct branch of the order
which has also undergone the same change. The Cretaceous plesiosaurs of ..."
5. Manual of Geology: Treating of the Principles of the Science with Special by James Dwight Dana (1880)
"The pliosaurs were other swimming Sau- rians, near the Plesiosaur : some individuals
were thirty to forty feet long. Remains of more than fifty species of ..."
6. Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society by Cambridge Philosophical Society (1876)
"the remains of Megalosaurus, Hylaeosaurus, Iguanodon, &c. into a sea tenanted
with pliosaurs, and Ichthyosaurs, and Plesiosaurs, &c., then after depositing ..."
7. Handbook to the Natural History of Cambridgeshire by J. E. Marr, Arthur Everett Shipley (1904)
"Remains of the species are also stated to occur in the Oxford Clay of Whittlesea.
Of the slender-jawed pliosaurs the above- mentioned ..."
8. Phases of Animal Life, Past and Present by Richard Lydekker (1892)
"These creatures, which are known by the name of pliosaurs, although agreeing with
the Long-Necked Lizards in the structure of their paddles and backbone, ..."
9. Nature by Norman Lockyer (1878)
"... encased in a much stronger and more complete dermal armour than their successors,
doubtless for their protection from the great ichthyosaurs, pliosaurs, ..."
10. Fieldiana: Geology by Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago Natural History Museum (1907)
"If so, the short-necked pliosaurs must represent a distinct branch of the order
which has also undergone the same change. The Cretaceous plesiosaurs of ..."
11. Manual of Geology: Treating of the Principles of the Science with Special by James Dwight Dana (1880)
"The pliosaurs were other swimming Sau- rians, near the Plesiosaur : some individuals
were thirty to forty feet long. Remains of more than fifty species of ..."
12. Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society by Cambridge Philosophical Society (1876)
"the remains of Megalosaurus, Hylaeosaurus, Iguanodon, &c. into a sea tenanted
with pliosaurs, and Ichthyosaurs, and Plesiosaurs, &c., then after depositing ..."
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