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Plesiosaur Directory
Introduction to the group including taxonomy, reconstructions, and original artwork.
http://www.plesiosauria.com/
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Discovered: The Missing Link that Solves a Mystery of Evolution
Article from “The Guardian” describing how scientists have found fossils of a crocodile-like animal that was on the verge of the transition from water to land, a critical early phase in the evolution of all limbed animals.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2006/apr/06/evolution.fossils
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Giant Ichthyosaur Fossil Found on the Dinosaur Coast.
Photograph and information on a giant ichthyosaur fossil found on the Lyme Regis Jurassic coastline, where Mary Anning made her discoveries 200 years earlier.
http://www.lymeregis.com/ichthyosaur_find/
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Preparing Mary the Ichthyosaur at Charmouth Fossils
Shows the processes involved in preserving and preparing the fossil of this 40 foot long ichthyosaur found near Lyme Regis, UK in the year 2000.
http://www.charmouthfossils.co.uk/preparing_mary/
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The Mepal Ichthyosaur
Provides information on the discovery, excavation and preservation of the ichthyosaur, Brachypterygius from the Jurassic clays of Cambridgeshire, UK.
http://www.sedgwickmuseum.org/research/Mepal_Ichthyosaur.pdf
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Ichthyosaur: An Aquatic Reptile from the Jurassic Period
Factsheet on this marine reptile.
http://www.3dhistory.co.uk/factsheets/26Ichthyosaur.html
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Lipleurodon: An Aquatic Reptile from the Jurassic
Factsheet on this marine reptile.
http://www.3dhistory.co.uk/factsheets/03Lipleurodon.html
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Crystal Palace Plesiosaurs
Photographs of the first ever life size models of prehistoric animals erected at Crystal Palace in London in 1854.
http://www.plesiosauria.com/crystalpalace.html
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A Bibliography of Early Papers on North American Plesiosaurs
Collection of links to a chronological sequence of papers published between 1851 and 1868, on the discovery, naming, reconstruction and subsequent controversy regarding American plesiosaurs.
http://www.oceansofkansas.com/ples-his.html
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Introduction to the Ichthyosauria
Provides information on the ichthyosaurs which shared the seas of the world with the other great groups of large marine reptiles, the plesiosaurs and mosasaurs, while the dinosaurs dominated the land.
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/diapsids/ichthyosauria.html
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