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Study of the fossils of such animals can provide information on the evolution of humans

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Specimens are known to have been made of flint

is an extinct carnivorous mammal of the genus Canis

Pliosaur tooth, giant marine reptile Troodon The body was covered withPLIOSAURUS(pronounced PLY oh SAWR us) Pliosaurus (meaning "greater lizard") was a huge, short necked plesiosaur that lived during the middle to late Jurassic period. This carnivore was a flippered marine reptile (a pliosaur and a plesiosaur, but not a dinosaur) with many sharp teeth in large, powerful jaws resembling those of a crocodile; the teeth were three sided in cross section. It was 33 40 ft (10 12 m) long and the skull was 5 6. 6 ft (1. 5 2 m)