name Dakosaurus means "biter lizard", and is derived from the Greek dakos ("biter") and σαῦρος -sauros ("lizard"). The type species Dakosaurus maximus...
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Aggiosaurus (redirect from Dakosaurus nicaeensis)
suggested that Aggiosaurus is a junior synonym of Dakosaurus, and that A. nicaeensis is referrable to Dakosaurus as a distinct species provisionally. They based...
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Plesiosuchus (redirect from Dakosaurus manselii)
(1885) referred the species to the genus Dakosaurus. Lydekker (1888) synonymized P. manselii with Dakosaurus maximus while Fraas (1902) regarded the two...
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Torvoneustes (redirect from Dakosaurus carpenteri)
then these specimens were recognised as belonging to a new species of Dakosaurus, as D. carpenteri. The species was named to honour Simon Carpenter, an...
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suggest that metriorhynchids gave live birth. A fossil of a pregnant Dakosaurus female recovered from the Late Jurassic plattenkalk, Bavaria, preserves...
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North America Liopleurodon, a medium-sized sea-going pliosaur from Europe Dakosaurus, a medium-sized sea-going crocodylomorph from Europe Perisphinctes, an...
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Suchodus, Purranisaurus, Neptunidraco, Tyrannoneustes, Torvoneustes, Dakosaurus, Geosaurus and Plesiosuchus. The last four taxa form a tribe within Geosaurinae...
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the United Kingdom and the Cloverfield monster of the United States. Dakosaurus is an extinct sea crocodile of the Jurassic Period, which researchers...
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founded by rapper Yukmouth Godzilla (singer) (1988–2019), Tanzanian singer Dakosaurus andiniensis, an extinct species of marine crocodilian Ford Godzilla engine...
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galilei (a loricatan), Pedeticosaurus leviseuri (a sphenosuchian), Chenanisuchus lateroculi (a dyrosaurid), and Dakosaurus maximus (a thalattosuchian)....
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fossil site, most were assigned to the metriorhynchid genera Cricosaurus, Dakosaurus, Geosaurus and Rhacheosaurus. These genera are colloquially called as...
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reptiles. The marine crocodile Metriorhynchus had paddle-like forelimbs, Dakosaurus andiniensis had a skull that was adapted to eat large sea reptiles, and...
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Caypullisaurus is attacked by the crocodylomorph Dakosaurus....
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Cretaceous Metriorhynchoidea Eoneustes Teleidosaurus Zoneait Aggiosaurus Dakosaurus Enaliosuchus Geosaurus Metriorhynchus Neustosaurus Purranisaurus Teleidosaurus...
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had been considered a junior synonym of Metriorhynchus, Geosaurus or Dakosaurus by different palaeontologists in the past. Some phylogenetic analysis...
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schnaitheimi. It is a nomen nudum, the fossils possibly belonging to Dakosaurus maximus. In 1876, J. Henry, a science teacher at Besançon, in a published...
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subsequently found to be a metriorhynchid; junior objective synonym of Dakosaurus or Geosaurus Brachytrachelopan Bradycneme Brasileosaurus – subsequently...
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Osteology and Feeding Ecology of the Metriorhynchid Crocodylomorph Genera Dakosaurus and Plesiosuchus from the Late Jurassic of Europe". PLOS ONE. 7 (9): e44985...
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Prognathodon Cretoxyrhina Otodus Rhamphorhynchus Megalosaurus Brachiosaurus Dakosaurus Stegosaurus Kronosaurus The production of Sea Rex's plot is in Development...
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Aggiosaurus Dakosaurus Purranisaurus Torvoneustes Tyrannoneustes Geosaurina Geosaurus Ieldraan Plesiosuchina Plesiosuchus Suchodus...
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or thalattosuchian. Geosaurus was similar in appearance to the related Dakosaurus with a relatively short skull and curved teeth designed for slashing,...
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originally believing it to be a metriorhynchid crocodyliform similar to Dakosaurus. However, after re-examining the type specimen, Sirotti concluded that...
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by paleontologist Kenneth Carpenter, who is an admitted Godzilla fan. Dakosaurus andiniensis is a marine reptile of the Jurassic Period. It had a uniquely...
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their longirostrine skulls, the only exceptions being the short-skulled Dakosaurus andiniensis and Turnersuchus. Although Turnersuchus had slender jaws,...
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Osteology and Feeding Ecology of the Metriorhynchid Crocodylomorph Genera Dakosaurus and Plesiosuchus from the Late Jurassic of Europe. PLoS ONE 7(9): e44985...
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attack prey as large or larger than itself, similar to the Late Jurassic Dakosaurus, Torvoneustes, and Plesiosuchus. The holotype specimen was estimated to...
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Notes Images Cricosaurus C. araucanensis A metriorhynchine metriorhynchid Dakosaurus D. andiniensis A geosaurine metriorhynchid Geosaurus G. araucanensis A...
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Osteology and Feeding Ecology of the Metriorhynchid Crocodylomorph Genera Dakosaurus and Plesiosuchus from the Late Jurassic of Europe". PLoS ONE 7 (9): e44985...
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the Mammilatum Zone, which dates to the lower Albian. Crocodylia indet. Dakosaurus sp. Erectopus superbus Hylaeosaurus sp. Pervushovisaurus campylodon Plesiosauria...
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