What is Pliosaurus?
{{italictitle}}{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2023}} {{Automatic taxobox | fossil_range = [[Late Jurassic]], {{Geological range|155.7|147}} | image = Pliosaurus kevani.png | image_upright = 1.15 | image_caption = ''P. kevani'' holotype skull | taxon = Pliosaurus | authority = [[Richard Owen|Owen]], 1842 | type_species = {{extinct}}'''''Pliosaurus brachydeirus''''' | type_species_authority = Owen, 1842 | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision_ref = <ref name=Pliosaurus2013>{{Cite journal | last1 = Benson | first1 = R.B.J. | last2 = Evans | first2 = M. | last3 = Smith | first3 = A.S. | last4 = Sassoon | first4 = J. | last5 = Moore-Faye | first5 = S. | last6 = Ketchum | first6 = H.F. | last7 = Forrest | first7 = R. | editor1-last = Butler | editor1-first = Richard J | title = A giant Pliosaurid skull from the Late Jurassic of England | doi = 10.1371/journal.pone.0065989 | journal = PLOS ONE | volume = 8 | issue = 5 | pages = e65989 | year = 2013 | pmid = 23741520| pmc = 3669260| bibcode = 2013PLoSO...865989B | doi-access = free }}</ref><ref name=KnutsenPliosaurus>{{cite journal |author=Espen M. Knutsen |year=2012 |title=A taxonomic revision of the genus ''Pliosaurus'' (Owen, 1841a) Owen, 1841b |journal=Norwegian Journal of Geology |volume=92 |issue=2–3 |pages=259–276 |issn=0029-196X}} [http://geologi.imaker.no/data/f/0/21/02/2_2401_0/NJG_2_3_2012_14_Knutsen_Scr.pdf Low resolution pdf] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131224110941/http://geologi.imaker.no/data/f/0/21/02/2_2401_0/NJG_2_3_2012_14_Knutsen_Scr.pdf |date=2013-12-24 }} [http://geologi.imaker.no/data/f/0/21/02/1_2401_0/NJG_2_3_2012_14_Knutsen_Pr.pdf High resolution pdf] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131224094822/http://geologi.imaker.no/data/f/0/21/02/1_2401_0/NJG_2_3_2012_14_Knutsen_Pr.pdf |date=2013-12-24 }}</ref> | subdivision = * {{extinct}}'''''P. brachydeirus''''' <br/><small>(Owen, 1841)</small> * {{extinct}}'''''P. carpenteri''''' <br/><small>[[Roger Benson|Benson]] ''et al.'', [[2013 in paleontology|2013]]</small>