Assertion: plesiosaur's neck | /r/HasProperty | long
Facets:
value: very
type: DEGREE
value: with more vertebrae
type: OTHER
value: in muraenosaurus
type: LOCATION
value: in order to afford additional reach
type: PURPOSE
Source sentences:
text: Their necks were so long that some of the first scientists to assemble their fossils couldn’t believe it, says Everhart.
text: They mixed up the long neck and short tail, mistakenly putting the skull at the wrong end.
text: Edgarosaurus differs from known polycotylids in having a relatively robust and only moderately elongated rostrum, in retaining a pineal opening in the skull roof, in lacking a vomeronasal fenestra and in possessing large caniniform teeth; its neck is also relatively long (26 vertebrae).
text: The neck was long and flexible, and the animal may have fed by swinging its head from side to side through schools of fish, capturing prey by using the long, sharp teeth present in the jaws.
text: The upper processes of the shoulder blades were very broad, and the "necks" of the shoulder blades were long.
text: Plesiosaurs are much like the sauropod dinosaurs in that they have an extremely long neck.
text: Plesiosaurs also had very long necks and tails.
text: They're still excavating the fossils in the lab, but the researchers have already uncovered an intriguing fact: The plesiosaur has a long neck.
text: According to traditional classifications, all plesiosaurs have a small head and long neck
text: Others argued that it was actually a decayed basking shark but Professor Toshio Kasuya said: "If it were a shark, the spine would be smaller and the neck itself is too long, as shown in the picture.
text: It’s most likely that the neck was long in order to afford Plesiosaurus additional reach to strike out at prey.‭ ‬Given
text: According to traditional classifications, all plesiosaurs have a small head and long neck
text: The neck was long and slender, but this seems to have been rather stiff, because the vertebrae are nearly flat-ended, which indicates that it could not have been bent in the swan-fashion represented in many old restorations.
text: The plesiosaur described in a forthcoming issue of the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, though not the same species, also sported four fins and a long neck.
text: According to traditional classifications, all plesiosaurs have a small head and long neck
text: And while most plesiosaurs had long necks, some had really long necks, notes Michael Everhart.
text: In terms of appearance, the Stronsay Beast shared strikingly similar characteristics to the so-called Loch Ness Monster – the neck and tail were extremely long and slender, with a wider torso with three pairs of short paws attached.
text: Well, even the very first plesiosaurs have a really long neck and some of their ancestors, the nothosaurs and the pachypleurosaurs
text: The very first plesiosaurs in the earliest Jurassic have a long neck and then in the latest mass [unclear word], the very end of the Cretaceous, just before the extinction of the plesiosaurs, their necks are even longer.
text: The neck is relatively long (29-42 vertebrae); individual cervical vertebrae are moderate in length and not elongated as in elasmosaurids, with single-headed ribs.
text: The neck is very long for a cryptoclidid (43 vertebrae), with bilobate (binocular) shaped centra that are much wider than long or high (similar to the neck vertebrae of Aristonectes and Morturneria).
text: Brown (1981) noted many similarities between Muraenosaurus and Cryptoclidus; however, in Muraenosaurus the neck is twice as long, with more vertebrae and longer individual vertebrae; the skull has a proportionately shorter snout and a tooth pattern closely resembling that of a Cretaceous elasmosaurid, with fewer and larger, longitudinally ridged teeth; the front-limb (pectoral) girdle differs in the shape of the coracoids and in having a well-developed interclavicle.
text: It had a long neck, four paddle-like flippers and a tail.
text: Plesiosaurus could use its long neck to sneak up on its prey from a distance with little chance of being detected.
text: Though many illustrations of this animal show a swan like neck, its neck was actually too long for this to be accurate since the blood would not be able to flow from its heart to its head.