Cimoliasaurus, meaning “chalk lizard” due to its fossils being found within layers of chalk, was a genus of elasmosaurid plesiosaur which lived at the end of the Cretaceous Period 70-66 million years ago, making it one of the last plesiosaurs… Read More ›
Elasmosaurus
Thalassomedon
Thalassomedon, meaning “lord of the sea”, was a 38 foot long elasmosaurid plesiosaur which lived within the Mowry Sea, the shallow sea that covered North America during the middle of the Cretaceous Period 97-95 million years ago. In March 1939,… Read More ›