Assertion: plesiosaur | /r/HasProperty | so-named
Facets:
value: by william conybeare
type: OTHER
value: by henry de la beche
type: OTHER
value: to indicate
type: PURPOSE
Source sentences:
text: It was so-named ("near lizard") by William Conybeare and Henry De la Beche, to indicate that it was more like a normal reptile than Ichthyosaurus, which had been found in the same rock strata just a few years earlier.