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Thalassiodracon
Thalassiodracon
Era: TriassicDiet: CarnivorousPeriod: Late Triassic
Thalassiodracon is an extinct genus of plesiosauroid from the Pliosauridae that was alive during the Late Triassic-Early Jurassic (Rhaetian-Hettangian) and is known exclusively from the Lower Lias of England. The type and only species, is Thalassiodracon (Plesiosaurus) hawkinsii (Owen, 1838)