What was the plesiosaurs diet?

What was the plesiosaurs diet?

This widespread creature (its remains have been found all across the northern hemisphere) occupied an intermediate position in the Carboniferous and Permian food chains, feeding on insects, arthropods and smaller reptiles and being preyed on in turn by the larger therapsids (“mammal-like reptiles”) of its day.

Is the Pliosaurus still alive?

Pliosaurus (meaning ‘more lizard’) is an extinct genus of thalassophonean pliosaurid known from the Kimmeridgian and Tithonian stages (Late Jurassic) of Europe and South America. Their diet would have included fish, cephalopods, and marine reptiles.

How much did the plesiosaur weight?

Its length and weight are estimated at 15 metres (about 50 feet) and 45 tonnes (almost 100,000 pounds), respectively. The jaws of this creature are thought to have produced a bite force of 33,000 psi (pound-force per square inch), perhaps the largest bite force of any known animal.

How long was Albertonectes?

38 ft.
Albertonectes/Length

Is Dimetrodon related to humans?

Relationship with modern mammals As a synapsid, Dimetrodon was distantly related to humans and all other modern mammals. Synapsids were the first tetrapods to evolve differentiated (or heterodont) teeth.

Did the plesiosaur have predators?

All plesiosaurs – so far as we know – were predators, the shapes of their teeth and jaws indicating that they preyed variously on swimming and benthic invertebrates, on fish, and also on other aquatic reptiles.

Is Predator XA plesiosaur?

Pliosaurus (a.k.a Predator X) was a pliosaurid plesiosaur from Late Jurassic Europe. It was the largest pliosaurid ever.

What period did the plesiosaur live in?

208.5 million years ago – 66 million years ago (Rhaetian – Maastrichtian)
Plesiosaurus/Lived

What did the plesiosaur look like?

Plesiosaurs were large marine reptiles with limbs shaped like flippers, very long necks and relatively small heads. Some plesiosaurs had necks longer than their bodies and their shape has often been described as a snake threaded through a turtle. Because of this odd shape, plesiosaurs were quite slow moving.

How much does a Elasmosaurus weigh?

Anatomy. Elasmosaurus skull and neck, North American Museum of Ancient Life. It was about 14 m (46 ft) in length and weighed over 2,000 kg (2.2 tons), making it the second longest plesiosaur. It had a large body and four flippers for limbs.

How many vertebrae are in a Elasmosaurus?

Elasmosaurus differed from all other plesiosaurs by having 72 neck (or cervical) vertebrae; more may have been present but were later lost to erosion or after excavation.

Did plesiosaurs eat cephalopods?

A plesiosaur specimen from northern Japan preserves ammonoid jaw apparatus (possibly two taxa) concentrated in abundance in the stomach region (Sato and Tanabe, 1998), this is the only evidence that ammonoid cephalopods were consumed by plesiosaurs .

What is the Plesiosaur Directory?

The Plesiosaur Directory is for anyone interested in any aspect of plesiosaurs and their kin. You will find information about their anatomy, classification, evolution, and stratigraphic distribution, along with data on specific genera and species.

How do you feed a Plesiosaurus?

FEEDING. Plesiosaurus is a piscivore that will hunt the aforementioned mobs, but they can also be fed by underwater feeders, hand-feeding with right click, or dropping food near them. Plesiosaurus will eat all vanilla fish, all mod fish (alive and cooked, in item form only), fish spawn, and Sio-Chiu-Le .

Are there any other animals like a plesiosaur?

Plesiosaurs, however, were probably the most bizarre. With their four flippers and often long necks, no other animal is quite like a plesiosaur. This website is dedicated to them and their close relatives. The Plesiosaur Directory is for anyone interested in any aspect of plesiosaurs and their kin.