plesiosaur
Noun
Meaning
One of the Plesiosauria.
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Gastroliths from a plesiosaur Most reptiles are insectivorous or carnivorous and have rather simple and comparatively short digestive tracts, meat being fairly simple to break down and digest.
Her discoveries included the first ichthyosaur skeleton correctly identified; the first two more complete plesiosaur skeletons found; the first pterosaur skeleton located outside Germany; and important fish fossils.
Plesiosaur sculpted by co-author Dr. Stephen Godfrey currently on display at the Calvert Marine Museum.
The feud probably originated when Marsh publicly pointed out that Cope's reconstruction of an Elasmosaurus skeleton was flawed: Cope had inadvertently placed the plesiosaur 's head at what should have been the animal's tail end.