Pliosaurus in Bristol Museum and Art Gallery
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Pliosaurus in Bristol Museum and Art Gallery
Image: © Paul Harrop Taken: 11 Sep 2018
Suspended above one of the building's central atria, the life-size 8-metre long reconstruction of a Pliosaurus carpenteri, christened Doris after a competition to find a suitable name. (It is "an extinct genus of thalassophonean pliosaurid known from the Kimmeridgian and Tithonian stages", from the "holotype BRSMG Cd6172". No, me neither.)
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Image Location
Latitude
51.456395
Longitude
-2.605155