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Futabasaurus was a marine reptile related to the plesiosaurus that lived in the seas near Japan in the late Cretaceous period of the Mesozoic era. Plesiosauruses are not considered dinosaurs; rather, they were reptiles, more like lizards. The name Futabasaurus reflects the discovery of its fossils in the Futaba strata in the city of Iwaki in Fukushima Prefecture of Japan in 1968, by Tadashi Suzuki, a high-school student at the time. In 2006, the creature was given the scientific name Futabasaurus suzukii, the sole member of a new genus. Some Futabasaurus fossils have been found to show signs of shark teeth. While Futabasaurus may indeed have been attacked by sharks, it also is possible that sharks simply gnawed on the body of a Futabasaurus once it was already dead. |
