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The evolution of bone-eating worm diversity in the Upper Cretaceous Chalk Group of the United Kingdom. [PDF]

PLoS One
Jamison-Todd S, Witts JD, Jones MEH, Tangunan D, Chandler K, Bown P, Twitchett RJ.   +6 more
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The first record of Tuarangisaurus (Sauropterygia, Plesiosauria) from the Maastrichtian of the Lefipán Formation, Chubut, Argentina

Palaeontologia Electronica
José O’Gorman, Roberto Scasso, Francisco Medina   +2 more
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The first occurrence of machimosaurid crocodylomorphs from the Oxfordian of south-central Poland provides new insights into the distribution of macrophagous teleosauroids. [PDF]

PeerJ
Weryński Ł, Błażejowski B, Szczygielski T, Young MT.   +3 more
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The Internal Cranial Anatomy of the Plesiosauria (Reptilia, Sauropterygia): Evidence for a Functional Secondary Palate

Lethaia, 2006
In the late 19th Century, the choanae (or internal nares) of the Plesiosauria were identified as a pair of palatal openings located rostral to the external nares, implying a rostrally directed respiratory duct and air path inside the rostrum. Despite obvious functional shortcomings, this idea was firmly established in the scientific literature by the ...
Steven W. Salisbury, Marie-Céline Buchy
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First Record of Polycotylidae (Sauropterygia, Plesiosauria) From the Upper Cretaceous of Antarctica

Cretaceous Research, 2015
Abstract In the present paper we report the incomplete skeleton of an indeterminate polycotylid that includes the articulated pelvic girdle. The material was collected from the Alpha Member of the Santa Marta Formation (upper Coniacian–lower Campanian) on James Ross Island, Antarctic Peninsula.
Federico L. Agnolin, José Patricio O'Gorman, Marcelo P Isasi   +2 more
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Sauropterygia: Histology of Plesiosauria

2021
Plesiosaurs are an iconic group of Mesozoic marine reptiles, uniquely equipped with four flippers of the same size and shape. Plesiosaurs first appeared in the latest Triassic and became extinct near the end of the Cretaceous. Morphology and geological context indicate adaptation to the open sea.
P. Martin Sander, Tanja Wintrich
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Cryptoclidid Plesiosaurs (Sauropterygia, Plesiosauria) From the Upper Jurassic of the Atacama Desert

Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 2020
This study presents the first plesiosaurs recovered from the Jurassic of the Atacama Desert that are informative at the genus level.
Rodrigo A Otero, Sérgio Soto-Acuña, Jhonatan Alarcón-Muñoz   +2 more
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Charles de Gerville et les premiers restes de Plesiosauria signalés dans le Jurassique inférieur de France (Hettangien, région de Valognes, Manche)

Comptes Rendus - Palevol, 2019
L’historien, archéologue, et naturaliste Charles de Gerville (1769–1853) signala dès janvier 1816 la présence d’ossements dans les carrières de la région de Valognes, département de la Manche. Ces carrières exploitaient le « Calcaire de Valognes » et les
Arnaud Brignon
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A new basal elasmosaurid (Sauropterygia: Plesiosauria) from the Lower Cretaceous of Germany

Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 2017
Here we report on a new basal elasmosaurid plesiosaurian, Lagenanectes richterae, gen. et sp. nov., from the Lower Cretaceous (probably Upper Hauterivian) of Germany.
Sven Sachs, Jahn J. Hornung, Benjamin P. Kear   +2 more
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A NEW OXFORDIAN PLIOSAURID (PLESIOSAURIA, PLIOSAURIDAE) IN THE CARIBBEAN SEAWAY

Palaeontology, 2009
Abstract:  A new pliosaurid, Gallardosaurus iturraldei gen nov. et sp. nov., was found in the Viñales area, western Cuba, in sediments of the Jagua Formation, middle–late Oxfordian. This new taxon is characterized by: wide participation of the premaxilla in the outer margin of the external naris; frontal not participating in the orbital margin ...
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