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Plesiosaur

Plesiosaur. By: Yoon Seo Roh. What is Plesiosaur?.

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Plesiosaur

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  1. Plesiosaur By: Yoon Seo Roh

  2. What is Plesiosaur? • Plesiosaur looks one kind of dinosaur but actually it’s not. It was extinct animal that lived in water. Plesiosaurs, meaning “near lizard” were flippered marine reptiles from the Mesozoic Era, from the early Jurassic to the end of the Cretaceous.

  3. Type of Plesiosaurs • Plesiosaurs are divided into two different types. -Plesiosauroids: with long, snake-like necks, tiny heads, and wide bodies -Pliosauroids: which had large heads with very strong jaws and short necks.

  4. About Plesiosaur……. • Basic information about Plesiosaur -Name’s meaning: Plesiosaur means, near lizard. -When did it lived?: Early Jurassic, 220 million years ago. -Length: 8feets -Habitat: Ocean, Europe -Weapons: Size, teeth; but very vulnerable because it didn’t have tough hide.

  5. Facts about Plesiosaur • When you photo of plesiosaurs with their necks stretched and bendy, scientists now think they couldn’t bend their necks much because of the way they were built. There necks were actually stiff. • Plesiosaurs had razor-sharp teeth but they didn’t chew. They used it for trapping fish. • Plesiosaurs were probably the first fossil reptile to be seen by scientist.

  6. Photos of Plesiosaur Plesiosaur tooth from Morocco

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  8. Work Citied http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/dinosaurs/dinos/Plesiosaur.shtml http://www.dinodictionary.com/dinos_apg3.asp http://www.paleodirect.com/pliopleo1.htm http://www.kidsdigdinos.com/Dinosaurs/plesiosaur.htm

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