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 * ... that over the course of the history of plesiosaur research multiple Leptocleidus skeletons have been found preserved as gemstone quality opal (Addyman specimen pictured)?
 * ... that the plesiosaur Bathyspondylus was first described in 1982 from a specimen collected in 1774?
 * ... that Leurospondylus ultimus was so named as it was originally thought to be the last occurrence of a plesiosaur?
 * ... that Augustasaurus' name comes from the mountain range of northwestern Nevada, where its fossilized bones were first discovered?
 * ... that a fossil plesiosaur skull named Kimmerosaurus may be the missing head of a Colymbosaurus?