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Another reptile groupPlesiosaur · PliosaurCarnivore
Brachauchenius
Sea reptiles that swam with four large flippers, many with very long necks. Pliosaurs are a branch of the group with short necks and big heads, the top predators of their seas.
Who it is related to: Part of the Sauropterygia, a branch of reptiles separate from the dinosaurs.
This page has only the scientific data from the databases; there is no hand-written description yet.
Scientific details
- Group
- Plesiosaurs (Pliosaur)
- Family
- Pliosauridae
- When it lived
- 89.8–125.77 million years ago
- Geologic stages
- Barremian – Turonian
- Named by
- Williston, 1903
- Fossil occurrences
- 11 sites
Countries with fossils
- Colombia
- Morocco
- United Kingdom
- United States
Data from Paleobiology Database and Wikidata