pliosaur

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A pliosaur

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pliosaur (plural pliosaurs)

  1. Any of several plesiosaurs of the family Pliosauridae, from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods.
    • 2022, Thomas Halliday, Otherlands, Penguin, published 2023, page 138:
      Hunting many of the other marine reptiles are the pliosaurs, short-necked and large-headed versions of plesiosaurs who appear to have had a general diet of anything that moved.

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