Muraenosaurus

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Restoration of the skeleton of Muraenosaurus in lateral view. From Andrews 1910.

Brown (1981) diagnosed Muraenosaurus as follows: "Plesiosauroids in which the teeth are ornamented with many longitudinal ridges; the dentary bears 19 to 22 teeth on each ramus; the premaxillae bear 5 teeth each, of which the 1st and 5th are small, and the 2nd to 4th are large; the most anterior maxilliary…

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Marmornectes

Marmornectes is a pliosaur with a long and narrow snout from the Oxford Clay. It was described and named by Ketchum and Benson (2011a). The type and only specimen (BEDFM 1999.201) comprises a substantially complete skeleton including a partial skull. Marmornectes is similar to Peloneustes but possesses some basal characters that were…

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Bishanopliosaurus

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Photo of Bishanopliosaurus on display in the Zigong Dinosaur Museum. Photo by Zhangzhugang. Used here under a CC BY 4.0 licence. The label says it is from "Dashanpu, Zigong", suggesting it isn't the type specimen (from Bishan County, Chongqing), but this could be a mistake.

Bishanopliosaurus is the most complete plesiosaur known from the Jurassic of Asia (Sato et al. 2003). The holotype specimen of the type species, B. youngi, is a partial postcranial skeleton of a juvenile individual from the Dongyuemiao Member of the Ziliujing Formation (Lower or Mid Jurassic) of Bishan County, Chongqing, China. It…

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