Plesiosaurus

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Illustration of a plesiosaurus (Plesiosaurus dolichodeirus), a marine reptile that lived during the Jurassic Period, from Louis Figuier's The World Before the Deluge, 1867 American edition. This skeleton was restored by William Conybeare, after a fossil discovered by Mary Anning at Lyme Regis.

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License: Licensed
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