Image: Cope Elasmosaurus

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Description: The "head-on-the-wrong-end" version of Elasmosaurus platyurus published by Cope (1869, Pl. II, Fig. 1). The ten dorsal vertebrae shown in black approximate those noted by Cope to be missing from the type specimen. Note that Cope did not include the hind paddles in this figure in part due to his erroneous belief that Elasmosaurus was propelled by its extremely long “tail”.
Title: Cope Elasmosaurus
Credit: http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/39852079#page/112/mode/1up
Author: Edward Cope.
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