Temnodontosaurus was a massive 30 foot long ichthyosaur which lived in the seas around western Europe during the early Jurassic Period approximately 200-180 million years ago. The time from the middle Triassic to the early Jurassic Periods, approximately 240-175 million… Read More ›
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Plesiosaurus
Plesiosaurus was a 10 foot long marine reptile which swam in the seas around England during the early Jurassic Period about 195 million years ago. During the early 19th Century, isolated fossil bones were discovered scattered in various locations on… Read More ›
Ichthyosaurus
Ichthyosaurus, the quintessential prehistoric reptilian dolphin analog, was a marine reptile which lived in the seas around England during the early Jurassic Period approximately 200-190 million years ago. The first fossils were discovered in 1814 by Mary Anning in Lyme… Read More ›
Sarcosaurus
Sarcosaurus was a 10-12 foot long meat-eating dinosaur which lived in England during the beginning of the Jurassic Period about 198 million years ago. In the early years of the 20th Century, some fossil bones were discovered by S. L…. Read More ›
Scelidosaurus
Scelidosaurus was a 12 foot long armored dinosaur which lived in Europe (and also possibly in North America) during the early Jurassic Period 200-195 million years ago. Scelidosaurus is the most well-known European early Jurassic dinosaur because numerous specimens have… Read More ›
Protosuchus
Protosuchus richardsoni was a 3 foot long primitive crocodylomorph which lived in North America during the early Jurassic Period 200-195 million years ago. Fossils of it have been found within the upper part of the Moenave Formation in northern Arizona…. Read More ›
Segisaurus
Segisaurus was a 3 foot long theropod dinosaur which lived in northern Arizona during the early Jurassic Period 180 million years ago. Only one fragmentary skeleton has been found, discovered in 1933 within the Navajo Sandstone in Tsegi Canyon on… Read More ›
Prognathodon
Prognathodon was a multi-speciate genus of mosasaur which lived around North America, Europe, and Africa during the Campanian and Maastrichtian Stages of the late Cretaceous Period approximately 80-66 million years ago. Prognathodon is known for possessing massively-built jaws and robust… Read More ›
Cimoliasaurus
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 ›
Mosasaurus
Mosasaurus was a genus of fully-aquatic marine lizards which lived throughout the world’s oceans during the late Cretaceous Period approximately 75-66 million years ago. Fossils of this animal were first discovered in 1764 within a chalk mine in the town… Read More ›
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