Plesiosaur
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plesiosaur-208-7194027
title:
Plesiosaur
text:
The Plesiosauria or plesiosaurs are an order or clade of extinct Mesozoic marine reptiles, belonging to the Sauropterygia. Plesiosaurs first appeared in the latest Triassic Period, possibly in the Rhaetian stage, about 203 million years ago. They became especially common during the Jurassic Period, thriving until their disappearance due to the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event at the end of the Cretaceous Period, about 66 million years ago. They had a worldwide oceanic distribution, and some
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wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
Order of reptiles (fossil)
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plesiosaur
date created:
2005-01-15T05:51:44Z
date modified:
2024-09-11T08:12:16Z
main entity:
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image:
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13
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