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Serpentisuchops

Ate: MeatPlesiosaursLate CretaceousNot technically a dinosaur

Serpentisuchops belongs to the group: Plesiosaurs. Its fossils come from rocks about 84 to 72 million years old.1

Fun fact: this sea reptile swam while dinosaurs walked on land. Everyone calls them dinos, but they were a different branch of reptiles.
Lived
84 to 72 million years ago1
Late Cretaceous
Most fossils found in
USA1
Food
Meat1

When did it live?

Triassic
Jurassic
Cretaceous
252 million years ago20114566, the asteroid
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Scientific name
Serpentisuchops
Named by
Persons IV et al. 20221
Group
Plesiosaurs
Family / clade
Polycotylidae1
Classification
Plesiosauria > Sauropterygia1
Age of the rocks
84 to 72 million years (Campanian)1
Rock formations
Pierre Shale1
Countries
USA1
Fossil records
1 in the Paleobiology Database1

Where the facts come from

  1. Serpentisuchops in The Paleobiology Database (CC BY 4.0): age, places, rock formations, classification.

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