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- This contrasts with the ancestral nothosaurian condition, where the girdles are proportioned more like those of generalized primitive diapsids.
- The shape of the pterygoid itself corresponds to the characteristic nothosaurian pattern.
- Plesiosaurs became numerous and worldwide in their distribution during the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods as they further developed the basic nothosaurian pattern.