Suborder Plesiosauria (Noun)
Meaning
Any of the plesiosaurs.
Classification
Nouns denoting animals.
Examples
- Plesiosauria is an extinct suborder of marine reptiles belonging to the order Sauropterygia, with a characteristic long neck and four flippers.
- Fossils of suborder Plesiosauria are commonly found in marine Jurassic deposits in the UK and are now found worldwide in rock from the time of the Triassic period to the Cretaceous.
- One well-known group within suborder Plesiosauria are the long-necked, long-tailed, and fish-tailed elasmosaurs, of the Cretaceous.
- Sauropterygia consists of a clade Plesiosauria with many lineages in it.
- Fossils of marine reptiles like the ones from the suborder Plesiosauria of sauropterygia will occasionally include associated marine gastropod and marine pelecypod fossils, marine annelids and various remains of open sea cephalopods and ammonites, remains of shallow-water creatures of genera which include ancient foraminifers.