(from the article `sauropterygian`) ...nothosaurs but more compact. Placodus was a typical form, having broad, flat tooth plates for crushing the mollusks on which it fed. Many ...
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(pronounced hen-o-dus) Henodus was a marine reptile about 3.25 feet (1 m) long. It was not a dinosaur, but a placodont . It had no teeth, but used its hard, horny beak to get and crush shellfish. It had a box-like head, 4 legs, a short, pointed tail, and a flat body. It was protected from predators, like Ichthyosaurs , by bony plates that formed a ...
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