Nestor Ivanovich Novozhilov was a Soviet paleontologist. In
1948, Novozhilov described a pliosaur specimen discovered on the banks of
Russia
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's
Volga River
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as a new species, ''
Pliosaurus rossicus
''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 marin ...
''. The specimen, while large, was damaged during the excavation and only the skull and chest region were successfully extracted in an excavation that began in
1938
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Footnotes
References
* Ellis, Richard, (2003) ''Sea Dragons - Predators of the Prehistoric Oceans''. University Press of Kansas. .
Soviet paleontologists
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