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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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An integrated approach to understanding the role of the long neck in plesiosaurs [PDF]

Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 2017
The evolution and function of the long neck in plesiosaurs, and how the problems associated with stiffness or flexibility were overcome during feeding, or rapid swimming during predator avoidance, are explored, and a new interpretation for the function ...
Leslie F. Noè, Michael A. Taylor, Marcela Gómez-Pérez   +2 more
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The oldest known North American occurrence of the Plesiosauria (Reptilia: Sauropterygia) from the Liassic (Lower Jurassic) Fernie Group, Alberta, Canada

, 1976
A partial skeleton of a plesiosaur, referable to the Plesiosauridae, from the lower Fernie Group (Sinemurian, Lower Jurassic) of Alberta is the oldest known occurrence of the Plesiosauria in North America.
Elizabeth L. Nicholls
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Classification of the reptiles [PDF]

, 1924
p. 39-65 : ill. ; 24 cm.The temporal bones of the lizards -- Derivation of the lizards -- Relationships of the Chelonia -- Relationships of the Placodontia -- Relationships of the ...
Williston, Samuel Wendell, 1851-1918., Broom, Robert, 1866-1951.   +1 more
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FIGURE 20. 50 percent majority rule tree showing a in A phylogeny of Plesiosauria (Sauropterygia) and its bearing on the systematic status of Leptocleidus Andrews, 1922

, 2008
FIGURE 20. 50 percent majority rule tree showing a hypothesis of relationship for Plesiosauria based on a Bayesian analysis of 31 OTUs and 152 characters.
Russell, Anthony P., Druckenmiller, Patrick S.   +1 more
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Plesiosauria (Reptilia) sinémuriens de Lorraine belge [PDF]

, 1995
The Plesiosauria (Reptilia) from the Upper Sinemurian (Lower Jurassic, or Liassic) of Belgian Lorraine are described and discussed in the present paper.
Godefroit, P.
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Dientes premaxilares anteriores procumbentes en Stenorhynchosaurus munozi (Plesiosauria, Pliosauridae), evidencia a partir de nuevo material

, 2023
A recently prepared fragment of the anterior end of a snout comprising occluded upper and lower jaws of a juvenile individual of Stenorhynchosaurus munozi Páramo-Fonseca et al., 2016 (Plesiosauria, Pliosauridae) is described herein.
Castañeda-Gómez, Antonio José, Benavides-Cabra, Cristian David, Palma-Castro, Héctor Daniel, Páramo, María Eurídice   +3 more
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Filling the Corallian gap: New information on Late Jurassic marine reptile faunas from England [PDF]

Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 2018
Two of the best known Mesozoic marine reptile assemblages can be found in units deposited in the Jurassic Sub-Boreal Seaway of the UK: the late Middle Jurassic Oxford Clay Formation (OCF) and Late Jurassic Kimmeridge Clay Formation (KCF). They record two
Davide Foffa, Mark T. Young, Stephen L. Brusatte   +2 more
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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, Jahn J. Hornung, Benjamin P. Kear   +2 more
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A Cladistic Analysis and Taxonomic Revision of the Plesiosauria (Reptilia: Sauropterygia) [PDF]

, 2001
The Plesiosauria (Reptilia: Sauropterygia) is a group of Mesozoic marine reptiles known from abundant material, with specimens described from all continents.
O’Keefe, F. Robin, Frank Robin O’keefe   +1 more
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