Plesiosaurus

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Plesiosaurus
Fossil range: Early Jurassic

Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Reptilia
Superorder: Sauropterygia
Order: Plesiosauria
Suborder: Plesiosauroidea
Family: Plesiosauridae
Gray, 1825
Genus: Plesiosaurus
Conybeare, 1821
Species
P. dolichodirus
P. guilelmiimperatoris
? P. brachypterygius(jr. synon.?)
? P. tournemirensis(jr. synon.?)
Plesiosaurus drawing in colored ink
Plesiosaurus drawing in colored ink

Plesiosaurus was a prehistoric marine animal. It was an omnivore, an animal that ate both meat and plants. Plesiosaurs lived mostly on fish. It would swim through schools of fish and use its long neck and sharp teeth to snap from side to side.

A Plesiosaurus was about 4.5 meters long. It had a flat body and limbs like paddles. It used these limbs to swim backward or forward.