Historical Significance and Taxonomic Status of Ischyrodon Meriani (Pliosauridae) From the Middle Jurassic of Switzerland [PDF]
PeerJ, 2022 Ischyrodon meriani is an obscure pliosaurid taxon established upon an exceptionally large tooth crown of a probable Callovian (Middle Jurassic) age that originates from Wölflinswil, Canton of Aargau, Switzerland.
Sven Sachs +2 more
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Dental Ontogeny and Replacement in Pliosauridae [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2015 Dental morphology and patterns of tooth replacement in representatives of the clade Pliosauridae (Reptilia, Sauropterygia) are evaluated in detail.
Davide Foffa
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The First Plesiosaurian (Sauropterygia, Pliosauridae) Remains Described From the Jurassic of Poland [PDF]
Palaeontologia Electronica, 2015 Plesiosaur remains are rare in Poland. The first confidently documented occurrenceof the group from the Jurassic of Poland is reported. The specimens comprisethree isolated teeth of a pliosaurid (Pliosauridae, Thalassophonea). These were found in Upper Jurassic (lower Oxfordian) sediments and were collected from Zalas Quarry, near Kraków, in southern ...
Lomax, Dean R.; id_orcid
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Equatorial pliosaurid from Venezuela marks the youngest South American occurrence of the clade [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2021 Pliosaurids were the dominant macropredators in aquatic environments at least since the Middle Jurassic until their extinction in the early Late Cretaceous.
Dylan Bastiaans +3 more
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Peculiar Macrophagous Adaptations in a New Cretaceous Pliosaurid [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2015 During the Middle and Late Jurassic, pliosaurid plesiosaurs evolved gigantic body size and a series of craniodental adaptations that have been linked to the occupation of an apex predator niche. Cretaceous pliosaurids (i.e.
Roger B.J. Benson +2 more
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A reappraisal of Polyptychodon (Plesiosauria) from the Cretaceous of England [PDF]
PeerJ, 2016 Pliosauridae is a globally distributed clade of aquatic predatory amniotes whose fossil record spans from the Lower Jurassic to the Upper Cretaceous. However, the knowledge of pliosaurid interrelationships remains limited.
Daniel Madzia
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Early-diverging plesiosaurs from the Pliensbachian (Lower Jurassic) of northwestern Germany [PDF]
PeerJThe knowledge of Pliensbachian (Early Jurassic, ∼192.9–184.2 Ma) plesiosaurs is notoriously insufficient. Although there have been specimens described from different parts of the world, only three of them have been established as diagnosable taxa.
Sven Sachs +2 more
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Earth Sciences Research Journal, 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. The specimen was found in the 1990s at Sutamarchán (Boyacá, Colombia), in Barremian beds of the Arcillolitas ...
Cristian D Benavides-Cabra
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First Pliosaur Remains (Sauropterygia, Pliosauridae) From the Oxfordian of the Atacama Desert
Journal of South American Earth Sciences, 2020 Abstract This research presents the first pliosaur remains from the Upper Jurassic of the Atacama Desert, in northern Chile. Two specimens recovered from Oxfordian levels, are represented by a fragmentary mandibular ramus and by an associated humerus and femur, respectively. Previous to this research, the Jurassic South American pliosaur records were
Rodrigo A Otero, Sérgio Soto-Acuña
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The giant pliosaurid that wasn’t—revising the marine reptiles from the Kimmeridgian, Upper Jurassic, of Krzyżanowice, Poland [PDF]
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 2021 Marine reptiles from the Upper Jurassic of Central Europe are rare and often fragmentary, which hinders their precise taxonomic identification and their placement in a palaeobiogeographic context.
Daniel Madzia +2 more
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