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The group was characterised by having a short neck and an elongated head, in contrast to the long-necked plesiosaurs. They were carnivorous and their long and powerful jaws carried many sharp, conical teeth. Pliosaurs range from 4 to 15 meters in length.[1][2] Their prey may have included fish, ichthyosaurs and other plesiosaurs. Pliosaurs almost entirely disapeared by the mid-Cretaceous. They were replaced by the mosasaurs.

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  • Pliosauroidea
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  • The group was characterised by having a short neck and an elongated head, in contrast to the long-necked plesiosaurs. They were carnivorous and their long and powerful jaws carried many sharp, conical teeth. Pliosaurs range from 4 to 15 meters in length.[1][2] Their prey may have included fish, ichthyosaurs and other plesiosaurs. Pliosaurs almost entirely disapeared by the mid-Cretaceous. They were replaced by the mosasaurs.
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  • The group was characterised by having a short neck and an elongated head, in contrast to the long-necked plesiosaurs. They were carnivorous and their long and powerful jaws carried many sharp, conical teeth. Pliosaurs range from 4 to 15 meters in length.[1][2] Their prey may have included fish, ichthyosaurs and other plesiosaurs. Pliosaurs almost entirely disapeared by the mid-Cretaceous. They were replaced by the mosasaurs. Typical genera include Macroplata, Kronosaurus, Liopleurodon, Pliosaurus and Peloneustes. Fossil specimens have been found in England, Mexico, South America, Australia and the Arctic region near Norway. Many very early (from the Rhaetian (Latest Triassic) and Early Jurassic) primitive pliosaurs were very like plesiosaurs in appearance and indeed used to be included in the family Plesiosauridae.
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