Plesiopleurodon was a plesiosaur, a type of marine reptile. It was not a dinosaur, though it coexisted with many dinosaurs. The first Plesiopleurodon fossil was discovered in 1996.
Quick facts about Plesiopleurodon:
- Existed from 99.6 million years ago to 93.5 million years ago
- Lived in a marine environment
- Was a carnivore
- Reproduced by live birth
- Only one specimen has been found by paleontologists
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Plesiopleurodon was described by the following scientific paper(s):
- K. Carpenter. 1996. A review of short-necked plesiosaurs of the Western Interior, North America. Neues Jahrbuch fur Geologie und Palaontologie, Abhandlungen 201(2):259-287
