plesiosauri

But to most of us it came in the boring beginning of time, and we wasted our best spells on plesiosauri, and protoplasms, and angels with flaming swords, all of whom knew magic too, and were not impressed.

Living Alone Stella Benson 1912

About us swarmed the mighty denizens of the primeval deep -- plesiosauri and ichthyosauria with all their horrid, slimy cousins whose names were as the names of aunts and uncles to Perry, but which I have never been able to recall an hour after having heard them.

Pellucidar Edgar Rice Burroughs 1912

An examination of the fossils on the lines I have indicated shows that out of one hundred and fifty mammiferous and oviparous quadrupeds, ninety are unknown to present naturalists, and that in the older layers such oviparous quadrupeds as the ichthyosauri and plesiosauri abound.

The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science Various 1909

The conclusion at which Escombe speedily arrived -- rightly or wrongly -- was that upon the subsidence of the waters of the Deluge a pair of plesiosauri had found themselves imprisoned in the great basin of the valley, where, the conditions presumably being exceptionally favourable, they had not only survived but had actually contrived to perpetuate their species to a very limited extent.

Harry Escombe A Tale of Adventure in Peru Harry Collingwood 1886

About a fortnight after Escombe's destruction of the plesiosauri, it pleased Huanacocha, the late chief of the Council of Seven, to entertain

Harry Escombe A Tale of Adventure in Peru Harry Collingwood 1886

Escombe shuddered as he reflected that, ignorant as he had hitherto been of the presence of the plesiosauri in the lake, it had only been by a series of fortuitous circumstances -- or was it the intervention of a merciful

Harry Escombe A Tale of Adventure in Peru Harry Collingwood 1886

Escombe's mind was made up: he would destroy those plesiosauri, and to destroy them a suitable boat was necessary.

Harry Escombe A Tale of Adventure in Peru Harry Collingwood 1886

I do not know what Mr. Godwin Austin would say comes next, but probably rocks containing more ammonites, and more ichthyosauri and plesiosauri, with a vast number of other things; and under that I should meet with yet older rocks, containing numbers of strange shells and fishes; and in thus passing from the surface to the lowest depths of the earth's crust, the forms of animal life and vegetable life which I should meet with in the successive beds would, looking at them broadly, be the more different the further that I went down.

Lectures and Essays Thomas Henry Huxley 1860