The Slottsmøya marine reptile Lagerstätte: depositional environments, taphonomy and diagenesis [PDF]
, 2015 The Late Jurassic Slottsmøya Member Lagerstätte on Spitsbergen offers a unique opportunity to study the relationships between vertebrate fossil preservation, invertebrate occurrences and depositional environment.
Delsett, Lene L. +6 more
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Els vertebrats de la Formació Argiles de Morella (Aptià inferior, Cretaci Inferior) [PDF]
, 2012 La Formació Argiles de Morella és una de les formacions del Cretaci Inferior peninsular que més registre fòssil de vertebrats està aportant. La seva condició de medis deposicionals, generalment continentals, però també de vegades transicionals amb ...
Escaso, Fernando +5 more
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The ''sauropod'' from the Albian of Mesnil-Saint-Père (Aube, France): a pliosaur, not a dinosaur
Carnets de Géologie, 2005 A vertebra from the Albian of Mesnil-Saint-Père (Aube, eastern Paris Basin), previously identified as the first caudal of a sauropod dinosaur, is shown to be a dorsal vertebra of a large pliosaur.
Buffetaut Eric +3 more
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Morphologic and Ontogenetic Patterns in Elasmosaur Neck Length, with Comments on the Taxonomic Utility of Neck Length Variables [PDF]
, 2006 Elasmosaur cervical vertebrae are common fossils, but their taxonomic utility is limited due to a lack of understanding concerning their shape within and among taxa.
Hiller, Norton, O’Keefe, F. Robin
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Why sauropods had long necks; and why giraffes have short necks [PDF]
, 2012 The necks of the sauropod dinosaurs reached 15 m in length: six times longer than that of the world record giraffe and five times longer than those of all other terrestrial animals.
Taylor, Michael P., Wedel, Mathew J.
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Latest Cretaceous mosasaurs and lamniform sharks from Labirinta cave, Vratsa District (northwest Bulgaria): A preliminary note [PDF]
, 2006 Preliminary descriptions are given of selected specimens from an assemblage of >65 isolated vertebrate remains, collected in 1985 at the Labirinta cave situated between the villages of Drashan and Breste, east of Cherven Briag (Vratsa district, northwest
Cappetta Henri +4 more
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A NEW SAUROPTERYGIAN REPTILE WITH PLESIOSAURIAN AFFINITY FROM THE LATE TRIASSIC OF ITALY
Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia, 2006 Bobosaurus forojuliensis, gen. et sp. nov., is a large sauropterygian from the Alpine Late Triassic (Early Carnian, northeastern Italy). The holotype is a moderately disarticulated skeleton consisting of the tip of the rostrum, part of the neck ...
FABIO M. DALLA VECCHIA
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Les Reptiles Marins du toarcien (Jurassique inferieur) Belgo-Luxembougeois [PDF]
, 1994 Toarcian (Lower Jurassic) outcrops have yielded many marine reptiles Ichthyosauria, Thalattosuchia and Plesiosauria in Belgium and, principally, in Grand Duchy of Luxemburg.
Godefroit, P
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Le ''sauropode'' de l'Albien de Mesnil-Saint-Père (Aube, France) est un pliosaure, non un dinosaure
Carnets de Géologie, 2005 Il est montré qu'une vertèbre provenant de l'Albien de Mesnil-Saint-Père (Aube, E du Bassin de Paris), précédemment identifiée comme une première caudale d'un dinosaure sauropode, est en fait une vertèbre dorsale d'un grand pliosaure.
Petit Jean-Louis +3 more
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, 2015 Living in water imposes severe constraints on the evolution of the vertebrate body. As a result of these constraints, numerous extant and extinct aquatic vertebrate groups evolved convergent osteological and soft-tissue adaptations.
Palmer, Colin, Young, Mark T.
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