Ammonites
Ammonites are an extinct collection of marine
animals of the subclass Ammonoidea in the class
Cephalopoda, phylum Mollusca.Read
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Archelon
Archelon was enormous marine turtle (a chelonian),
the biggest that has ever lived.Read
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Belemnites
Belemnites(or elemnoids) are an extinct collection
of marine cephalopod, very parallel in many ways
to the modern squid and closely related to the
modern cuttlefish.Read
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Dimetrodon
Dimetrodon (meaning: two events of teeth), was
a rapacious synapsid genus that flourished during
the Permian age and was a arnivore.
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Dsungaripterus
Dsungaripterus (meaning: Wing of Junggar Basin)
was a pterosaur by means of a wingspan of 3 metres
(10 feet).
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Elasmosaurus
Elasmosaurus (meaning: thin-plated lizard) had
plate like bones in its pelvic girdle and was
a plesiosaur with an enormously long neck that
lived in the belatedly Cretaceous period.
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Eryops
Eryops (meaning: drawn-out face) because mainly
of its skull was in front of its eyes, is a species
of extinct, semi-aquatic amphibian. The primary
genus of Eryops has been named Eryops megacephalus
(large head).Read
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Hesperornis
Hesperornis is an extinct species of flightless
aquatic bird that lived during the Coniacian to
Maastrichtian sub-pochs of the belatedly Cretaceous
(89-65 million years past).Read
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Ichthyosaurs
Ichthyosaurs (meaning fish and lizard) were huge
marine reptiles that resembled fish and dolphins.Read
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Kronosaurus
Kronosaurus was one of the ocean reptiles known
as pliosaurs a member of the plesiosaur group,
but in the Pliosauridae relations, with the characteristic
feature of a much shorter, thicker neck.Read
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Mosasaurs
Mosasaurs were huge, serpentine (snake-like)
marine reptiles. They were not dinosaurs, but
were linked to snakes and monitor lizards.
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Nothosaurs
Nothosaurs were Triassic marine sauropterygian
reptiles that may have lived similar to today's
seals. It lived during the whole Triassic period.
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Plesiosaurs
Plesiosaurs were carnivorous marine reptiles.
The common name plesiosaur is applied both to
the true plesiosaurs and to the bigger taxonomic
rank of Plesiosauria, which includes together
long-necked and short-necked forms.Read
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Pteranodon
Pteranodon from the tardy Cretaceous of North
America was one of the biggest pterosaur genera..Read
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Pterodactylus
Pterodactylus was a pterosaur, a little, flying
reptile, with a wingspan of about 50–75 cm (20–30
inches) that lived on Lake Coast during the Late
Jurassic Period. It was a carnivore and most likely
preyed upon fish and other small animals.Read
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Quetzalcoatlus
Quetzalcoatlus was a pterodactyloid pterosaur
known from the belatedly Cretaceous period of
North America and one of the biggest known flying
animals of all time.Read
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Rhamphorhynchu
Rhamphorhynchus was a long-tailed pterosaur of
the Jurassic stage. Its name means 'beak jaw'.
Only 17.5 cm (7 in) lengthy but with a wingspan
of 100 cm (3 feet), it was less specialized than
the afterward pterodactyloids.Read
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Trilobite
Trilobites are extinct arthropods that appeared
in the 2nd Epoch of the Cambrian era and flourished
throughout the lower Paleozoic period before beginning
a drawn-out decline to extinction when, during
the Late Devonian extermination, all trilobite
orders, with the sole omission of Proetida, died
out.Read
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Tylosaurus
Tylosaurus was a mosasaur, a big, predatory marine
lizard closely related to contemporary monitor
lizards and to snakes. Along with plesiosaurs,
sharks, fish and other genus of mosasurs, it was
a dominant predator of the Western Interior Seaway
during the Upper Cretaceous era.Read
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