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The Plesiosauria or plesiosaurs are an order or clade of extinct Mesozoic marine reptiles, belonging to the Sauropterygia.
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Could plesiosaurs still exist?
All plesiosaurs became extinct as a result of the K-T event at the end of the Cretaceous period, approximately 66 million years ago.
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What did plesiosaurs evolve into?
pliosaurs
Early
in their evolutionary history, the plesiosaurs split into two main
lineages: the pliosaurs (or pliosauroids, which belong to the suborder
Pliosauroidea), in which the neck was short and the head elongated; and
the plesiosauroids (which belong to the suborder Plesiosauroidea), in
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What is the closest living relative to the plesiosaur?
turtles
Latest studies suggested that plesiosaurs' closest living relatives are turtles, and clump them together as Pantestudines—a sister group of Archosauria.
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Extinction…Why did plesiosaurs go extinct?
Lifespan…plesiosaur age
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