Nibble-away-molluscs Slime-lizard, 2-3 feet long Clinging to the spray-lashed rocks with its broad, clawed feet was the peculiar, salamanderlike Limusaur. Flabby amphibians, remarkably adapted to survive in the salty water, Limusaurs grazed the splash zone, scraping mussels and other shellfish from the rocks with their stone-hard teeth. The pudgy oddballs tore the entire shellfish loose from its anchorage in bunches and swallowed the shardy pulp, shell and all. Tough-walled guts protected them from the bite of the shells as they passed through.
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| - Nibble-away-molluscs Slime-lizard, 2-3 feet long Clinging to the spray-lashed rocks with its broad, clawed feet was the peculiar, salamanderlike Limusaur. Flabby amphibians, remarkably adapted to survive in the salty water, Limusaurs grazed the splash zone, scraping mussels and other shellfish from the rocks with their stone-hard teeth. The pudgy oddballs tore the entire shellfish loose from its anchorage in bunches and swallowed the shardy pulp, shell and all. Tough-walled guts protected them from the bite of the shells as they passed through.
- Limusaurus (meaning "mud lizard") is a genus of toothless herbivorous theropod dinosaur from the Jurassic (Oxfordian stage) Upper Shishugou Formation in the Junggar Basin of Xinjiang in western China.Limusaurus is also the first definitely known ceratosaur from Eastern Asia, including China. The discovery of Limusaurus also suggests that there may have been a land connection between Asia and several other continents allowing for faunal exchange even though the Turgai Sea was previously thought to prohibit such a movement.Limusaurus is also extremely important because previous ceratosaurs were all discovered to be carnivores, making this dinosaur the first herbivorous ceratosaur.
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| - Limusaurus (meaning "mud lizard") is a genus of toothless herbivorous theropod dinosaur from the Jurassic (Oxfordian stage) Upper Shishugou Formation in the Junggar Basin of Xinjiang in western China.Limusaurus is also the first definitely known ceratosaur from Eastern Asia, including China. The discovery of Limusaurus also suggests that there may have been a land connection between Asia and several other continents allowing for faunal exchange even though the Turgai Sea was previously thought to prohibit such a movement.Limusaurus is also extremely important because previous ceratosaurs were all discovered to be carnivores, making this dinosaur the first herbivorous ceratosaur. Limusaurus was a small, long-legged dinosaur with short, gracile forelimbs, tiny hands, a slender neck and tail, a short, deep skull, and a slender lower jaw with a down-curved tip. It was toothless, and beak tissue is preserved around its jaw margins. The type species is L. inextricabilis. The specific name means "impossible to extricate".
- Nibble-away-molluscs Slime-lizard, 2-3 feet long Clinging to the spray-lashed rocks with its broad, clawed feet was the peculiar, salamanderlike Limusaur. Flabby amphibians, remarkably adapted to survive in the salty water, Limusaurs grazed the splash zone, scraping mussels and other shellfish from the rocks with their stone-hard teeth. The pudgy oddballs tore the entire shellfish loose from its anchorage in bunches and swallowed the shardy pulp, shell and all. Tough-walled guts protected them from the bite of the shells as they passed through.
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