The remains of this
plesiosaur are the most complete found in Argentina and were discovered in rocks submerged in Lake Argentino at the foot of the Andes mountains.
The fossil record of pliosaurid
plesiosaurs ranges from the Lower Jurassic to the Upper Cretaceous.
They include a 19-millionyear-old marsupial lion, an extinct grasshopper, a giant carnivorous pitcher plant, a tiny Australian spider, an Indonesian weevil, a
plesiosaur, a blue-flowered central American plant, a "ghost" shrimp, and a Madagascan dragonfly - a larger close relative of the damselfly.
is from sand quite well preserved like the skeleton of a
plesiosaurFossil hunter Mary Anning's 1823 discovery of the first complete
plesiosaur skeleton led to more than 190 years of arguing.
Readers follow the story of a baby
plesiosaur, a marine reptile related to dinosaurs, whose curiosity about her new world in the ocean leads her to wander away from her mother.
It was obvious the fossil was fingers or toes, because there were three in a row, but the first thing that came to mind was that it was some sort of
plesiosaur."
A
Plesiosaur Broke My Bathtub follows the adventures of Thomas and Molly who find themselves face to face with a life-size, real-life
plesiosaur in the town's local lake.
Plesiosaur locomotion: Is the four-wing problem real or merely an atheoretical exercise?
That's because the legendary naturalist has a
plesiosaur named after him.