Kronosaurus
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kronosaurus-175-13104400
title:
Kronosaurus
text:
Kronosaurus is an extinct genus of large short-necked pliosaur that lived during the Aptian to Albian stages of the Early Cretaceous in what is now Australia. The first known specimen was received in 1899 and consists of a partially preserved mandibular symphysis, which was first thought to come from an ichthyosaur according to Charles De Vis. However, it was 1924 that Albert Heber Longman formally described this specimen as the holotype of an imposing pliosaurid, to which he gave the scientific
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wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
Pliosaur genus from the Early Cretaceous period of Australia
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kronosaurus
date created:
2004-12-23T20:31:56Z
date modified:
2024-09-03T09:33:49Z
main entity:
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image:
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fields total:
13
integrity:
16