Wikipedia talk:Featured article candidates/Peloneustes/archive1

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Peloneustes ("mud swimmer") is a genus of pliosaurid plesiosaur from the Middle Jurassic of England, known from the Oxford Clay Formation. Originally described as a Plesiosaurus by Harry Govier Seeley in 1896, it was given its own genus by Richard Lydekker in 1889 and is still its only member. It is known from many specimens, some very complete. It had a total length of 3.5 - 4 m, and a large, triangular skull elongated into a narrow snout. Its teeth are conical and have vertical ridges on all sides, and the front teeth are larger than the back. It had a short neck for a plesiosaur and its limbs were modified into flippers, with the back pair larger than the front. It may be relatied to Pliosaurus or an basal|earlier pliosaurid. It was well-adapted to aquatic life, using its flippers for swimming, and its skull was reinforced against the stresses of feeding. The long, narrow snout of Peloneustes could have been swung through the water to catch fish with its sharp teeth.

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 * "The name Peloneustes comes from the Greek words pelos, meaning "mud" or "clay", in reference to the Oxford Clay Formation, and neustes, meaning "swimmer"" --> checks out
 * "In his 1960 review of pliosaurid taxonomy, Tarlo considered P. aequalis to be invalid, since it was based on propodials (upper limb bones), which cannot be used to differentiate different pliosaurid species" --> checks out
 * "These include the chondrichthyans Asteracanthus, Brachymylus, Heterodontus (or Paracestracion)" --> checks out
 * "While uncommon, the small piscivorous pterosaur Rhamphorhynchus was also part of this marine ecosystem" --> checks out
 * "Andrews had described this mount in 1910, remarking that it was the first skeletal mount of a pliosaurid, thus providing important information about the overall anatomy of the group" --> checks out

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