PLIOSAUR

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• Pliosaur were a group of large carnivorous marine reptiles characterized by massive heads, short necks, and streamlined tear-shaped bodies.
  
  
• Pliosaurs have been found as fossils from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods (about 200 million to 65.5 million years ago).
  
  
• They are classified in the order Plesiosauria, along with their long-necked relatives, the plesiosaurs.
  
  
• They were the largest aquatic carnivorous reptiles that have ever lived and are often dubbed “sea monsters”. They measured over 10 metres in length and could weigh up to several dozen tons. They had powerful, large skulls and massive jaws with large, sharp teeth.
  
  
• Their limbs were in the form of fins. They used four large fins to swim through Mesozoic seas.