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Description
History
Overview
Paleobiology
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Overview
Description
- Cretaceous
- Dentary Dentary bone
- Scleral ring
- Retina
- Scanning electron microspectroscopy Scanning electron microscope
- Melanosomes Melanosome
- Respiratory tube Vertebrate trachea
- Cartilaginous
- Pectoral girdle
- Bronchi
- Phosphate
- Squamates Squamate
- Archosaurs Archosaur
- Viscera
- Thoracic cavity
- Abdominal cavity
- Mass spectrometry
- Iron
- Porphyrin
- Hemoglobin
- Kidney
- Monitor lizards Monitor lizard
- Cetaceans Cetacean
- Colon Colon (anatomy)
- Globidens
- Bivalve
- Ichthyosaurs Ichthyosauria
- Metriorhynchid
- Crocodyliforms Crocodyliform
History
- Western Interior Sea
- Smoky Hill Chalk
- Paraphyletic
- Edward Drinker Cope
- Paleontologist Paleontology
- Dale Russell
- 2011 2011 in paleontology
- Plesioplatecarpus
- Phylogenetic analysis Phylogenetics
- Angolasaurus
- Monotypic
- Cladogram
Paleobiology
- Interspinal ligaments Interspinal ligament
- Carangiform Fish locomotion
- Hydrodynamic
- Mosasauroid
- Vallecillosaurus
- Plotosaurus
- Tylosaurus
- Niobrara Formation
- Endothermy Endotherm
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Platecarpus
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Important terminology
genus tail mosasaurs scales may specimen mosasaur also body fluke skull preserved one shape position another known lacm 128319 around
Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples
Extracted RDF-like relationships with confidence and source. The table includes structured facts and lower-confidence contextual relations.| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| small fish | instance of | prey | 0.80 | text |
| squid.LocomotionWhile mosasaurs are traditionally thought to have propelled themselves through the water by lateral undulation in a similar way to eels | instance of | prey | 0.80 | text |
| the deep caudal fin of Platecarpus suggests that it swam more like a shark | instance of | prey | 0.80 | text |
| squid | instance of | prey | 0.80 | text |
| Platecarpus | related to Description | LACM | 0.60 | section |
| Platecarpus | related to Description | The | 0.60 | section |
| Platecarpus | related to Description | Cretaceous | 0.60 | section |
| Platecarpus | related to Description | This | 0.60 | section |
| Platecarpus | related to Description | Small | 0.60 | section |
| Platecarpus | related to Fossils | Various | 0.60 | section |
| Platecarpus | related to Fossils | Cretaceous | 0.60 | section |
| Platecarpus | related to Fossils | Kansas | 0.60 | section |
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