marine reptiles with flippers - amphibians

Which was the name of the cretaceous mermaid-crocodile?

Dec 30, 2010 by I'm studying engineering to make one of these! | Posted in Biology

When i was younger i had a coloring book about dinosaurs and prehistoric reptiles. It showed an animal paired up with a modern day crocodile. This animal had a mix of crocodile and fish anatomical features. It's head was of a crocodile, it's body was

Your description is obviousy very vague, and the "mermaid-crocodile" bit doesn't help at all! Still, a vaguely remembered kids' colouring book isn't a lot to go on.

Perhaps you could be referring to one of a variety of fully marine

KTDykes | Dec 30, 2010

Dinosaur Exhibit Reveals New Insights Into Life And Death Of Ancient Reptiles ...

19.05.12

Cara Santa Maria: I'm here at the Museum of Natural History of Los Angeles County , and I'm about to speak with Dr. Luis Chiappe , the curator of their recently built dino hall.

This is a new dinosaur exhibit here at the Los Angeles Museum of Natural History. What makes this one so different than other exhibits? Because you know, I go to a lot of dinosaur exhibits.

Luis Chiappe: Right. It focuses on the nature of science, on the how do we know what we know?

CSM: I love that!

LC: This is not a chronological exhibit. This is not--

CSM: So we're not walking through time here?

LC: No, we're not putting the animals in dioramas or anything like that. It's really using dinosaurs as a vehicle for understanding the nature of science, and that's what we've done here. But this is a really cool specimen. I wanted to show it to you.

CSM:

Source: Huffington Post

Canadian Fossil Discovery Centre - Media Coverage by CBC Manitoba

sea was found near here with the catch of the day in its mouth -- the flipper of a huge marine reptile. The bones of an 80-million-year-old ...

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NEAR MORDEN — A giant predatory fish that once prowled the prehistoric sea was found near here with the catch of the day in its mouth — the flipper of a huge marine reptile. The discovery was made by one of the Canadian Fossil Discovery Centre’s summer staff while walking through a drainage ditch along the edge of what used to be the Western Interior Seaway....

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Philosophy - 1907
Differences paralleling those occurring in mammals are noticeable in the flippers of reptiles. In the living marine turtles, for example, we find a type of flipper (Fig. 2) corresponding to a considerable degree with that of a seal, ...
Ancient Marine Reptiles
501 pages 		Ancient Marine Reptiles

Creator: Jack M. Callaway, Elizabeth L. Nicholls | Nature - 1997-02-28
Well-developed flippers are diagnostic of the Cretaceous and Paleogene marine turtles of Europe and Africa reviewed by Smith (1989), Seago (1980), and Moody ( 1970, 1974, 1980, 1993). Brief characterizationsof the Desmatochelyidae, ...
Publisher: Academic Press
Popular Mechanics
276 pages 		Popular Mechanics

1957-01
Kronosaurus, believed to be the biggest marine reptile that ever lived, is being restored for public display at ... It propelled itself with four massive flippers, each 6 feet long, that jutted from a body 6 feet thick and 20 feet in ...
Plesiosaurus
24 pages 		Plesiosaurus

Creator: Leigh Rockwood | Nature - 2011-08-15
Meet the PLesiosauRus If you thought the plesiosaurus was a marine dinosaur, you were wrong! The plesiosaurus was not a dinosaur. It was part of a group of marine reptiles with flippers called plesiosaurs. These ancient reptiles had ...
Publisher: PowerKids Press
Palaeobiology II
600 pages 		Palaeobiology II

Creator: Derek E. G. Briggs, Peter R. Crowther, Peter R Crowther | Science - 2001-03-13
4.1.10 Locomotion in Mesozoic Marine Reptiles MA TAYLOR Introduction The Mesozoic marine reptiles were the dominant ... still swam like this, although their limbs were reduced and toes webbed or even fused into mitten-like fins.
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

marine reptiles with flippers - News


Ancient sea dragons had a caring side
Cosmos - Aug 12, 2011
Ancient sea dragons had a caring side DUBLIN: A pregnant plesiosaur fossil has confirmed that these predatory marine reptiles gave birth to single, large offspring - contrary to other marine reptiles. Reptilian reproduction typically involves a large number of small babies, but the fossil

How Mosasaurs slid into the sea
Ars Technica - Aug 01, 2011
These mosasaurs may be another case—with ichthyosaurs and crocodiles—of marine reptiles evolving prominent tail fins independently. Lindgren and co-authors only looked at four representative mosasaur genera—Dallasaurus, Clidastes, Mosasaurus,

How Mosasaurs Slid Into the Sea
Wired News - Jul 28, 2011
These mosasaurs are be another case – with ichthyosaurs and crocodiles – of marine reptiles evolving prominent tail fins independently. Lindgren and co-authors only looked at four representative mosasaur genera – Dallasaurus, Clidastes, Mosasaurus,

Family helps unearth marine fossil
Billings Gazette - Aug 03, 2011
The aquatic reptiles swam through the sea with four paddlelike flippers, catching fish and other prey with razor-toothed jaws. The long-necked plesiosaurs, called elasmosaurs, had small skulls and necks with 70 or more neck vertebrae, more than any

Look out for touring turtles
Bournemouth Echo - Aug 11, 2011
Dr Richardson added: “The leatherback is the largest of all marine turtle species and at a distance could be mistaken for a floating log. “But if you approach them slowly and carefully, once you see their large reptilian head, massive flippers and