Bottom-Feeding Plesiosaurs

Gut contents of a plesiosaur lead to the realization that clams (bivalves), snails (gastropods) and hard shelled cephalopods may have been an important component to these long necked aquatic reptiles of the Cretaceous seas. Investigators in Australia have published a description of the stomach contents of two elasmosaurid plesiosaurs found in Queensland, Australia in this week's issue of Science.




McHenry, Colin R., Cook, Alex. G., Wroe, Stephen. 2005 Bottom-Feeding Plesiosaurs Science 310: 75