Plesiopleurodon

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Plesiopleurodon
Fossil range: Late Cretaceous

Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Sauropsida
Order: Plesiosauria
Suborder: Pliosauroidea
Family: Pliosauridae
Genus: Plesiopleurodon

Plesiopleurodon ('near sided tooth') is an extinct genus of marine reptile. It was a type of small (about 3 m long) pliosaur that lived in the Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian).

[edit] In popular culture

It had a brief cameo in Walking with Dinosaurs, trying to ambush an Ornithocheirus. Although not identified in the show, it was identified on the old website, but mis-spelled as "Plesioliopleurodon".