The Pliosauroidea, meaning "lizards beyond the ordinary", is a genus of marine reptiles that lived during the middle and late Jurassic and early Cretaceous periods of the Mesozoic era. The Pliosauria belongs to the Plesiosauria order, which originally included only the Pliosauridae, but now includes other families and genera. Pliosaurs are the branch of all finned saurians with the strongest bite and combat power, and even became a rising star. When they existed, their ecological niche even surpassed that of the more marine ichthyosaurs. Pliosaurs and their close relatives, the true plesiosau......