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Monster Of Aramberri
The "monster of Aramberri" is the name that was given to the fossil remains of a huge marine reptile, a giant carnivore belonging to the Pliosauroidea clade that was found in sediments of the La Caja Formation in Aramberri, Nuevo León, Aramberri, Nuevo León, Mexico by a student of the Facultad de Ciencias de la Tierra of the Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León while conducting geological mapping in 1985.Buchy, Frey & al, 2003''First occurrence of a gigantic pliosaurid plesiosaur in the late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian) of Mexico'', Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France, t. 174, n°3, pp. 271-278 Size and ontogenetic stage It was originally estimated that the remains belonged to a young individual which was more or less in length (both claims are questionable), claims of the specimen being long were created by media. It was initially falsely identified as ''Liopleurodon, Liopleurodon ferox''. French and German paleontologists classified it as a giant pliosaur, which lived ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marine Reptile
Marine reptiles are reptiles which have become secondarily adapted for an aquatic or semiaquatic life in a marine environment. The earliest marine reptile mesosaurus (not to be confused with mosasaurus), arose in the Permian period during the Paleozoic era. During the Mesozoic era, many groups of reptiles became adapted to life in the seas, including such familiar clades as the ichthyosaurs, plesiosaurs (these two orders were once thought united in the group "Enaliosauria", a classification now cladistically obsolete), mosasaurs, nothosaurs, placodonts, sea turtles, thalattosaurs and thalattosuchians. Most marine reptile groups became extinct at the end of the Cretaceous period, but some still existed during the Cenozoic, most importantly the sea turtles. Other Cenozoic marine reptiles included the bothremydids, palaeophiid snakes, a few choristoderes such as ''Simoedosaurus'' and dyrosaurid crocodylomorphs. Various types of marine gavialid crocodilians remained widespread as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
