The dinosaur is described by the museum as an "elasmosaur," a kind of plesiosaur during the early Cretaceous period. At the time, the area was covered with about 50 feet of water. Knutsen and a ...

and sandpipers all show up in the Cretaceous. In the warm, shallow seas that spilled onto the continents, the long-necked plesiosaurs gave way to the giant, snakelike mosasaurs. Rays and modern ...

Like the dinosaurs, plesiosaurs went extinct during the mass extinction event at the end of the Cretaceous period, about 66 ...

The Cretaceous is a geological period that began 145 million ... In the seas, there were mosasaurs, which are big marine reptiles, and there were groups of plesiosaurs and ichthyosaurs,' explains ...

The Mesozoic wasn’t just the age of dinosaurs. Reptiles of all sorts thrived through the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous at ...

The skeleton, which will stretch at least fifty feet when mounted, belonged to the sea-monster Kronosaurus, a Plesiosaur of the Lower Cretaceous period. This fossil is the only complete skeleton ...

Styxosaurus was an elasmosaur, a long-necked variety of the marine reptiles called plesiosaurs ... slowly cruised the shallow waters of the Late Cretaceous seas. The long, pointed teeth of ...

We have a small number of isolated bones and teeth of both ichthyosaurs and plesiosaurs from a range of Late Jurassic and Cretaceous sites in Britain. Our collection also includes a unique plesiosaur, ...

It was found near the site where a plesiosaur fossil was unearthed in ... discovered it in the Goshoura strata from the Cretaceous Period (about 100 million years ago) on the coast of Shishijima ...

The Late Cretaceous modern (crown) bird,Vegavis iaai, pursuit diving for fish in the shallow ocean off the coast of the Antarctic peninsula, with ammonites and plesiosaurs forcompany. Disclaimer ...