plesiosaur

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• I found the head of the flat humerus so characteristic of the extinct order to which the Plesiosaurus has been assigned, and two digital bones of the paddle, that, from their comparatively slender and slightly curved form, so unlike the digitals of its cogener the The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland
• I seldom say a harsh word to any one, but I was not master of myself then, and I spoke right out and called him an anisodactylous plesiosaurian conchyliaceous Ornithorhyneus, and rotten to the heart with holophotal subterranean extemporaneousness. Mark Twain`s speeches; with an introduction by William Dean Howells.
• One day there came a note from the editor requiring me to write ten pages on this revolting text: "Considerations concerning the alleged subterranean holophotal extemporaneousness of the conchyliaceous superimbrication of the Ornithorhyncus, as foreshadowed by the unintelligibility of its plesiosaurian anisodactylous aspects. Mark Twain`s speeches; with an introduction by William Dean Howells.
• I seldom say a harsh word to any one, but I was not master of myself then, and I spoke right out and called him an anisodactylous plesiosaurian conchyliaceous Ornithorhyneus, and rotten to the heart with holophotal subterranean extemporaneousness. Mark Twain`s speeches; with an introduction by William Dean Howells.
• These are sauropterygians, marine reptiles related to plesiosaurs, from the middle Triassic.
• However, the documented sighting of a plesiosaur, a water-bound creature, in 1923 made cryptozoologist believe that the specimen of these monsters existed in the lake at least 200 years ago. SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles - Part 618
• More distantly related to true dinosaurs were the marine plesiosaurs and ichthyosaurs.
• At some point this morning, I dreamed of finding a very small plesiosaur vertebra, no larger than a quarter. "There is no real decay. The flesh is barely bruised"
• Ornithorhyncus, as foreshadowed by the unintelligibility of its plesiosaurian anisodactylous aspects. Mark Twain's Speeches
• The dinosaurs were only one of the groups that became extinct at the end of the Cretaceous; also hard-hit were the unicellular Foraminifera, the ammonites, and marine reptiles such as the mosasaurs and plesiosaurs.