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Liopleurodon
Liopleurodon ferox
Era: JurassicDiet: CarnivorousPeriod: Late JurassicSize: 25mWeight: 1700kg
Liopleurodon (; meaning 'smooth-sided teeth') is an extinct genus of carnivorous pliosaurid plesiosaurs that lived from the Callovian stage of the Middle Jurassic to the Kimmeridgian stage of the Late Jurassic period (approximately 166 to 155 million years ago). The type species is L. ferox, which is probably the only valid species