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AN UNEXPECTED SHORT TOOTH REPLACEMENT CYCLE PERIOD IN MARESAURUS COCCAI (PLESIOSAURIA; RHOMALEOSAURIDAE) FROM THE BAJOCIAN OF ARGENTINEAN PATAGONIA [PDF]
Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e StratigrafiaThe Rhomaleosauridae were a clade of Jurassic plesiosaurians, characterized by triangular skulls, elongated preorbital region, marked premaxillary-maxillary constriction, and intermediate body proportions between pliosauromorphs and plesiosauromorphs ...
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A new pliosaurid from the Oxford Clay Formation of Oxfordshire, UK
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 2022 We describe the anatomy of a new longirostrine pliosaurid, Eardasaurus powelli gen. et sp. nov., based on a substantially complete skeleton from the Middle Jurassic Oxford Clay Formation of Oxfordshire, UK.
HILARY F. KETCHUM, ROGER B.J. BENSON
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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
Roger B.J. Benson +2 more
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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 ...
Jair Israel Barrientos-Lara +2 more
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A new large Pliosaurid from the Barremian (Lower Cretaceous) of Sáchica, Boyacá, Colombia
Earth Sciences Research Journal, 2018 A new fossil MP111209-1 found in the Barremian beds of Sáchica, a town near Villa de Leiva representing the more complete skeleton found in the region is described here.
María Eurídice Páramo-Fonseca +2 more
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, 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 +3 more
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Palaeontology, 2011 Abstract: Peloneustes philarchus is the most abundant pliosaurid from the Peterborough Member of the Oxford Clay Formation (Callovian) of the UK. It is a valid taxon possessing a unique character combination, including a single autapomorphy: the interdentary symphysis is raised dorsally on a narrow platform.
Ketchum, H, Benson, R
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Figure 14 in Anatomy and relationships of the bizarre Early Cretaceous pliosaurid Luskhan itilensis
, 2023 Figure 14. Phylogenetic relationships among Pliosauridae. Extended majority consensus tree ('allcompat') obtained by a relaxed morphological clock Bayesian inference.
Uspensky, Gleb N +6 more
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Revision of the short-necked Cretaceous plesiosaurians from New Zealand
, 2023 Polycotylidae Cope, 1869 is a clade of short-necked plesiosaurians that achieved a cosmopolitan distribution by the Late Cretaceous. Here, the material previously referred to Polycotylidae/Pliosauridae from the Upper Cretaceous of New Zealand is reviewed,
Rodrigo A. OTERO +2 more
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