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Pliosauroidea

Pliosauroidea is an extinct clade of plesiosaurs, known from the latest Triassic to early Late Cretaceous. They are best known for the subclade Thalassophonea, which contained crocodile-like short-necked forms with large heads and massive toothed jaws, commonly known as pliosaurs. More primitive non-thalassophonean pliosauroids resembled plesiosaurs in…

Classification, Large pliosauroids & Overview

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Large pliosauroids

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Pliosauroidea

Nodes93
Edges92
Triples30
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.021505
Components1

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Pliosauroidea

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related to Phylogeny · 13
Pliosauroidea → Benson, Hilary, Ketchum, Leptocleidus, Meyerasaurus, Plesiosaurus, Pliosauridae, Pliosaurus, Polycotylus, Rhomaleosauridae, Roger, The, Welles
related to Taxonomy · 10
Pliosauroidea → Benson, BorealonectesEurycleidusMacroplataMaresaurusMeyerasaurusRhomaleosaurusSthenarosaurusYuzhoupliosaurus, Family PliosauridaeAnguanaxAttenborosaurusEardasaurusGallardosaurusHauffiosaurusLiopleurodonMarmornectesMegalneusaurusPachycostasaurusPeloneustesPliosaurusRhaeticosaurusSimolest…, Family RhomaleosauridaeArchaeonectrusBishanopliosaurus, Hilary, Ketchum, Roger, Sinopliosaurus, Suborder PliosauroideaEurysaurus, The
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Pliosauroidea → Greek, It, Pliosaurus, Richard Owen, The, Welles
is a · 1
Pliosauroidea → extinct clade of plesiosaurs

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pliosaurus plesiosaurs taxa family known large pliosauroids liopleurodon pliosauridae included classification rhomaleosaurus found jurassic long genera triassic closely pliosaur remains

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Pliosauroideais aextinct clade of plesiosaurs0.90text
Pliosauroidearelated to NameWelles0.60section
Pliosauroidearelated to NameIt0.60section
Pliosauroidearelated to NamePliosaurus0.60section
Pliosauroidearelated to NameGreek0.60section
Pliosauroidearelated to NameThe0.60section
Pliosauroidearelated to NameRichard Owen0.60section
Pliosauroidearelated to PhylogenyWelles0.60section
Pliosauroidearelated to PhylogenyPliosaurus0.60section
Pliosauroidearelated to PhylogenyPlesiosaurus0.60section
Pliosauroidearelated to PhylogenyPliosauridae0.60section
Pliosauroidearelated to PhylogenyRhomaleosauridae0.60section

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