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Adam S. Smith. This site opened in June 2001 and was last updated in October 2020.

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The skeletons in the site header are (from left to right): Kronosaurus (Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge), Thalassomedon (American Museum of Natural History, New York), Cryptoclidus (Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, Glasgow), Rhomaleosaurus (Natural History Museum, London), Dolichorhynchops (Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History, Washington) and Thalassiodracon (Natural History Museum, London).

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