On the Structure of the Plesiosauria Skull [PDF]
Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, 1896 The structure of the skull of the Liassic Plesiosauria has been discussed by many writers, but the various accounts that have been given of it are incomplete, and often differ one from the other in important particulars, doubtless owing to the fact that in most cases the specimens examined are much crushed, and are embedded in the matrix ...
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Youngest occurrences of rhomaleosaurid plesiosaurs indicate survival of an archaic marine reptile clade at high palaeolatitudes [PDF]
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 2015 Rhomaleosaurid plesiosaurians were a common and ecologically significant component of Early Jurassic marine faunas, primarily as large-bodied predators. They declined in abundance and made their last fossil appearance in the Middle Jurassic. However, the
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Cranial anatomy and taxonomy of Dolichorhynchops bonneri new combination, a polycotylid (Sauropterygia: Plesiosauria) from the Pierre Shale of Wyoming and South Dakota [PDF]
, 2008 The taxonomic identity of two well-preserved polycotylid plesiosaur skeletons from the Pierre Shale of far northern Wyoming and southern South Dakota has been controversial since their discovery.
O’Keefe, F. Robin
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Kimmeridgian pliosaurids (Sauropterygia, Plesiosauria) from Tlaxiaco, Oaxaca, southern Mexico
Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Geológicas, 2018 Fossil remains of two specimens of the family Pliosauridae are described in the present manuscript. These fossils are from the Kimmeridgian shallow marine strata belonging to the informally known Sabinal formation deposited in the Tlaxiaco Basin, which ...
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Journal of Palaeogeography, 2020 Sichuan Basin is very famous for the Mesozoic reptiles, especially the Jurassic dinosaurs. Here, we report some isolated plesiosaurian teeth and vertebrae newly excavated from the Middle Jurassic Xintiangou Formation in Yunyang county, Chongqing City ...
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On the cranial anatomy of the polycotylid plesiosaurs, including new material of Polycotylus latipinnis, Cope, from Alabama [PDF]
, 2004 The cranial anatomy of plesiosaurs in the family Polycotylidae (Reptilia: Sauropterygia) has received renewed attention recently because various skull characters are thought to indicate plesiosauroid, rather than pliosauroid, affinities for this family ...
O’Keefe, F. Robin
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Skeletal completeness of the non‐avian theropod dinosaur fossil record
Palaeontology, Volume 62, Issue 6, Page 951-981, November 2019., 2019 Abstract Non‐avian theropods were a highly successful clade of bipedal, predominantly carnivorous, dinosaurs. Their diversity and macroevolutionary patterns have been the subject of many studies. Changes in fossil specimen completeness through time and space can bias our understanding of macroevolution.
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Evidence of pachyostosis in the cryptocleidoid plesiosaur Tatenectes laramiensis from the Sundance Formation of Wyoming [PDF]
, 2010 In this paper we present evidence for pachyostosis in the cryptocleidoid plesiosaur Tatenectes laramiensis Knight, 1900 (O\u27Keefe and Wahl, 2003a).
O’Keefe, F. Robin, Street, Hallie P.
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Reassessment of 'Plesiosaurus' megacephalus (Sauropterygia: Plesiosauria) from the Triassic-Jurassic boundary, UK [PDF]
Palaeontologia Electronica, 2015 Smith, AS (2015): Reassessment of 'Plesiosaurus' megacephalus (Sauropterygia: Plesiosauria) from the Triassic-Jurassic boundary, UK.
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Redécouverte des « crocodiles fossiles des environs du Mans » de Georges Cuvier après deux siècles d’oubli [PDF]
BSGF - Earth Sciences Bulletin, 2016 En 1808 puis en 1824, Georges Cuvier signala dans la région du Mans la présence de restes de crocodiles fossiles à partir desquels fut créée l’espèce Crocodilus maunyi GRAY, 1831.
Brignon Arnaud
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