Kronosaurus
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Kronosaurus is an extinct genus of large short-necked pliosaur that lived during the Aptian to Albian stages of the Early Cretaceous in what is now Australia. The first known specimen was received in
Kronosaurus queenslandicus QM F18827 proposed neotype
The holotype mandibular symphysis of K. queenslandicus (QM F1609)
Saturn Devouring His Son, artist's impression by Francisco de Goya, painted between 1820 and 1823, representing the Titan of the Greek mythology Kronos. Kronosaurus is named in reference to the latter for its large size and its possible ferocity reminiscent of the character
The mounted skeleton at Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology historically attributed to Kronosaurus (MCZ 1285), sometimes nicknamed "Plasterosaurus", was reconstructed with an excessive number of vertebrae and inaccurate cranial proportions.
Pliosauridae
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Pliosauridae is a family of plesiosaurian marine reptiles from the Latest Triassic to the early Late Cretaceous. The family is more inclusive than the archetypal short-necked large headed species that
Kronosaurus
…ichthyosaur according to Charles De Vis. However, it was in 1924 that Albert Heber Longman formally described this specimen as the holotype of an imposing pliosaurid, to which he gave the scientific name K. queenslandicus, which is still the only recognized species nowadays. The genus name, meaning "lizard of Kronos…
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