Talk:Pelagosaurus

A fact from Pelagosaurus appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 6 December 2007. The text of the entry was as follows: Did you know... that a fossil specimen of Pelagosaurus was found with the remains of a Leptolepis in its stomach? A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2007/December.

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Shouldn't the animal in the picture have a longer tail? It doesn't look at all paddle-like or at all like the tails of other seagoing crocs. This thing looks like it has more of a plesiosaur's tail. 75.208.31.73 (talk) 05:00, 24 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

You're quite correct, the tail is a little too short. However, Pelagosaurus never had paddle-like limbs or a tail fluke as metriorhynchids did. It is a teleosaurid, and like the other genera in that family, it was well armoured and looked very much like the extant gharial from India. Mark t young (talk) 06:32, 24 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]