Is Plesiosaur a Herbivore?

Plesiosaurs were carnivorous and ate fish and other swimming animals. They lived in the large bodies of water and were air-breathing animals. Plesiosaurs were probably slow swimmers, cruising slowly just below the surface. They swam using their four paddle-like flippers in a manner similar to that of modern turtles.

What type of dinosaur is a plesiosaur?

Plesiosaurus (Greek: πλησίος (plesios), near to + σαῦρος (sauros), lizard) is a genus of extinct, large marine sauropterygian reptile that lived during the early part of the Jurassic Period, and is known by nearly complete skeletons from the Lias of England.

Is a plesiosaurus a dinosaur?

Dinosaurs are archosaurs, a larger group of reptiles that first appeared about 251 million years ago, near the start of the Triassic Period. ... These and many other types of ancient reptiles are often wrongly called dinosaurs. Marine reptiles, such as ichthyosaurs, plesiosaurs and mosasaurs are not dinosaurs.