What is the difference between a mosasaur and pliosaur?

1. Is mosasaurus a Pliosaur?
2. What is the difference between Mosasaur and mosasaurus?
3. What is the difference between mosasaurus and Liopleurodon?
4. Is Kronosaurus a mosasaurus?
5. What was the largest pliosaur?
6. Who would win a megalodon or a mosasaurus?
7. Is Mosasaurus still alive?
8. What's the spitting dinosaur in Jurassic Park?
9. Why is Mosasaurus not a dinosaur?
10. Was Liopleurodon a mosasaur?
11. Is a mosasaurus a dinosaur?
12. Is a blue whale bigger than a mosasaurus?
13. Who would win mosasaurus vs Spinosaurus?
14. What was the largest marine reptile?
15. Is a Pliosaur a dinosaur?
16. What killed the Liopleurodon?
17. Why did the pliosaur go extinct?

Is mosasaurus a Pliosaur?

Mosasaurs were only distantly related to the pliosaurs and plesiosaurs (sea serpents) that preceded them (and which they largely supplanted from the dominance of the world's oceans during the late Cretaceous period).

What is the difference between Mosasaur and mosasaurus?

Mosasaurs are related to the living Komodo dragon, but they have flipper-limbs which suit them for an aquatic life. Mosasaurs appear to have developed shark-like tails and would have been fast swimmers. Mosasaurs had to come to the surface to breath air.

What is the difference between mosasaurus and Liopleurodon?

Mosasaurus crushed the Liopleurodon in almost everything. The only thing that Liopleurodon beat Mosasaurus in is bite strength. If these two ever were to meet, Liopleurodon might flee in terror, or risk being a chew toy for the apex hunter.

Is Kronosaurus a mosasaurus?

One of the odd things about Kronosaurus is that it lived during the early Cretaceous period, about 120 million years ago, at a time when pliosaurs were coming under pressure both from better-adapted sharks and from a new, even more, vicious family of reptiles known as mosasaurs.

What was the largest pliosaur?

Pliosaurs were large reptiles that averaged 5-6 meters (16-20 feet) in length. One of the largest pliosaurs known is the Australian giant Kronosaurus , which measures in at 10-11 meters (33-36 feet) long.

Who would win a megalodon or a mosasaurus?

While a similar length, the Megalodon had a much more robust body and huge jaws built for devouring whales and other large marine mammals. A Mosasaurus would not have been able to get its jaws around the much thicker body of the Megalodon. It would just take one catastrophic bite for the Megalodon to end the battle.

Is Mosasaurus still alive?

The mosasaurs ruled the ocean in the late Cretaceous period. ... Mosasaurs went extinct 65.5 million years ago in the same mass extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs, Live Science previously reported.

What's the spitting dinosaur in Jurassic Park?

The poison-spitting dinosaur reconstructed in Jurassic Park is Dilophosaurus. At the time the movie was produced, there was no evidence that this or any other dinosaur spat poison or had poisonous saliva of any kind.

Why is Mosasaurus not a dinosaur?

Mosasaurs ARE NOT DINOSAURS. They are reptiles and are closely related to snakes and monitor lizards. Mosasaurs went extinct at the end of the Cretaceous during the end Cretaceous mass extinction event. The Tylosaurus mosasaur shown on the Jurassic Park movie was the largest mosasaur to exist.

Was Liopleurodon a mosasaur?

Mosasaurus. In terms of the real animals-Liopleurodon was less than 25 feet long with a 4 foot head and Mosasaurus more than 50 feet with a 5 foot skull. In terms of fictional versions-The Walking With Dinosaurs Liopleurodon is 80 feet, but the Jurassic World Mosasaurus is anything from 100–200 feet long.

Is a mosasaurus a dinosaur?

These apex predators of the prehistoric deep can feast on all manner of ocean life. Their double-hinged jaws open wide for any prey including Plesiosaurs and great white sharks. They are not actually dinosaurs, but in fact marine reptiles.

Is a blue whale bigger than a mosasaurus?

The blue whale is a marine mammal measuring up to 98 feet in length and with a maximum recorded weight of 190 short tons, it is the largest animal known to have ever existed. The largest mosasaurs species reached lengths up to 56 feet.

Who would win mosasaurus vs Spinosaurus?

Mosasaurus attacks Spinosaurus, but couldn't land a hit until, he crush Spinosaurus onto the ocean floor and tosses him to the ice sheet above and crash into Spinosaurus. However, Spinosaurus uses the icicles above to kill Mosasaurus and was successful, thus killing Mosasaurus.

What was the largest marine reptile?

Ichthyosaurs (Ichthyosauria)

This massive animal, from the Norian stage in what is now British Columbia, is considered the largest marine reptile so far found in the fossil record.

Is a Pliosaur a dinosaur?

Pliosaurs were aquatic carnivorous reptiles, not dinosaurs, that lived between 220 and 70 million years ago. This pliosaur has not yet been named scientifically but may be a specimen of Yuzhoupliosaurus chengjiangensis.

What killed the Liopleurodon?

The marine adapted lungs of the Liopleurodon were being crushed under the giant's own 150 tonne body. Death by exhaustion and suffocation, was inevitable.

Why did the pliosaur go extinct?

The Leptocleididae radiated during the Early Cretaceous. ... All plesiosaurs became extinct as a result of the K-T event at the end of the Cretaceous period, approximately 66 million years ago.