Cimoliasaurus
Sign in to saveCimoliasaurus was a plesiosaur that lived during the Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) of the eastern United States, with fossils known from New Jersey, North Carolina, and Maryland.
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It is catalogued under topics including Elasmosauridae, Fossils of the United States and Fossil taxa described in 1851.
Its subject is documented across 10 Wikipedia language editions.
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- Parent taxon
- Elasmosauridae
- Image
- Cimoliasaurus.jpg
- Length
- 7.6
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- taxon name
- Cimoliasaurus
- taxon rank
- genus
- Commons category
- Cimoliasaurus
- location of discovery
- New Jersey
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Cimoliasaurus was a plesiosaur that lived during the Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) of the eastern United States, with fossils known from New Jersey, North Carolina, and Maryland.
==Etymology== The name is derived from the Greek , meaning "white chalk", and , meaning "lizard", in reference to the fact that the deposits in which it was found bear a superficial resemblance to the chalk deposits of the Western Interior Seaway.
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