The cranial anatomy and relationships of Cardiocorax mukulu (Plesiosauria: Elasmosauridae) from Bentiaba, Angola [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2021 We report a new specimen of the plesiosaur Cardiocorax mukulu that includes the most complete plesiosaur skull from sub-Saharan Africa. The well-preserved three-dimensional nature of the skull offers rare insight into the cranial anatomy of elasmosaurid ...
Miguel P Marx +2 more
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A new elasmosaurid (sauropterygia, plesiosauria) from the bearpaw shale (late cretaceous, maastrichtian) of montana demonstrates multiple evolutionary reductions of neck length within elasmosauridae [PDF]
Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 2017 Plesiosauria is a diverse clade of marine reptiles that have been studied since the early 19th century. However, phylogenetic relationships within the group have been contentious due to limited taxon sampling and a misunderstanding of how ontogeny ...
Patrick Druckenmiller, Roger B J Benson
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Taxonomic reassessment of Hydralmosaurus as Styxosaurus: new insights on the elasmosaurid neck evolution throughout the Cretaceous [PDF]
PeerJ, 2016 Two extremely-long necked elasmosaurids, AMNH 1495, holotype of Hydralmosaurus serpentinus, and AMNH 5835, previously referred to H. serpentinus, are here reviewed in detail.
Rodrigo A. Otero
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Reappraisal of Europe’s most complete Early Cretaceous plesiosaurian: Brancasaurus brancai Wegner, 1914 from the “Wealden facies” of Germany [PDF]
PeerJ, 2016 The holotype of Brancasaurus brancai is one of the most historically famous and anatomically complete Early Cretaceous plesiosaurian fossils. It derived from the Gerdemann & Co.
Sven Sachs +2 more
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The fossil vertebrate primary type specimens in the collection of the University of Otago Department of Geology. [PDF]
J R Soc N ZABSTRACT The 47 vertebrate type specimens held in the University of Otago Geology Department are catalogued in detail. A short history of the collection is followed by lists of the type specimens under the Classes Actinopterygii, Reptilia, Aves and Mammalia. A fish trace‐fossil is included at the end of the Actinopterygii.
Robinson JH +4 more
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The oldest elasmosaurs (Sauropterygia, Plesiosauria) from Antarctica, Santa Marta Formation (upper Coniacian? Santonian–upper Campanian) and Snow Hill Island Formation (upper Campanian–lower Maastrichtian), James Ross Island [PDF]
Polar Research, 2012 Elasmosaurs are recorded for the first time in the Lachman Crags Member (Beta Member) of the Santa Marta Formation (lower Campanian) and in the Herbert Sound Member of the Snow Hill Island Formation (upper Campanian).
José P. O'Gorman
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El registro fósil de plesiosaurios (Diapsida, Sauropterygia) en el Perú
Revista Peruana de Biología, 2021 Se realiza un recuento de los registros de plesiosaurios de Perú y se describe material referido a plesiosauria depositado en el Museo de Historia Natural de la UNMSM.El registro de plesiosaurios de Perú se extiende entre el Valanginiano-Hauteriviano ...
Ivan Meza-Velez, José O'Gorman
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Revised vertebral count in the "longest-necked vertebrate" Elasmosaurus platyurus Cope 1868, and clarification of the cervical-dorsal transition in Plesiosauria. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2013 Elasmosaurid plesiosaurians are renowned for their immensely long necks, and indeed, possessed the highest number of cervical vertebrae for any known vertebrate.
Sachs S, Kear BP, Everhart MJ.
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Cranial osteology of the ankylosaurian dinosaur formerly known as Minmi sp. (Ornithischia: Thyreophora) from the Lower Cretaceous Allaru Mudstone of Richmond, Queensland, Australia. [PDF]
PeerJ, 2015 Minmi is the only known genus of ankylosaurian dinosaur from Australia. Seven specimens are known, all from the Lower Cretaceous of Queensland. Only two of these have been described in any detail: the holotype specimenMinmi paravertebra fromthe Bungil ...
Leahey LG +4 more
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Plesiosaurs (Diapsida, sauropterygia) from Late Cretaceous (Late Campanian- Early maastrichtian) marginal marine environments from north Patagonia [PDF]
, 2015 Fil: O`Gorman, Jose Patricio. División Paleontología Vertebrados. Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo.
O`Gorman, Jose Patricio
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