Liopleurodon

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Liopleurodon
Fossil range: Late Jurassic
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Sauropsida
Order: Plesiosauria
Suborder: Pliosauroidea
Family: Pliosauridae
Genus: Liopleurodon
Sauvage, 1873
Species
  • L. ferox (type)
  • L. pachydeirus
  • L. rossicus
  • L. macromerus

Liopleurodon was a large species of plesiosaur. It usually ate large fish. It was very large, growing up to be 23 meters long. It was a relative of Plesiosaurus and Libonectes. It lived around 65 million years ago.

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