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 ...
Gonzalo Matelo Mirco +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
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Seabirds as Ecological Indicators in Late Cretaceous Marine Environments [PDF]
, 2018 In modern marine ecosystems, seabirds are considered indicators of ecological hotspots because their biogeographic distribution is correlated with physical, chemical, and biological oceanographic factors.
Wilson, Laura
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Recognising and quantifying the evolution of skeletal paedomorphosis in Plesiosauria [PDF]
, 2023 Plesiosaurs are one of the longest-ranging tetrapod groups in the Mesozoic and underwent a major adaptive radiation in the Late Triassic/Early Jurassic, so they are an ideal clade to study the long-term implications and deep-time evolution of specific ...
Adam S. Smith, Ricardo Araújo
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Frontiers in Earth SciencePlesiosaurs are Mesozoic reptiles fully adapted to an aquatic lifestyle. Throughout their evolutionary history exceeding 140 million years plesiosaurs dispersed globally, achieved substantial diversity, occupied a variety of ecological niches, and ...
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Preliminary Report on the Osteology and Relationships of a New Aberrant Cryptocleidoid Plesiosaur from the Sundance Formation, Wyoming [PDF]
, 2003 The cryptocleidoid plesiosaur Tatenectes laramiensis, new genus, is described from the Redwater Shale Member of the Sundance Formation, Narrona County, Wyoming. The holotype of this species was a partial skeleton that has since been lost.
O’Keefe, F. Robin, Wahl, William, Jr.
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A CRETACEOUS PLESIOSAUR REMAIN (REPTILIA, SAUROPTERYGIA) FROM THE ARGILLE VARICOLORI OF VARZI (PAVIA, LOMBARDY, NORTHERN ITALY) [PDF]
, 1993 The first finding of a plesiosaur remain in Italy is reported. The specimen, a single humerus has been collected in the Argille Varicolori formation, in an outcrop close to the village ol Zavattarello near Varzi (Pavia, Lombardy, Northern Italy ...
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Reptiles marinos mesozoicos en el sureste de México y su significación geológico-paleontológica
Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Geológicas, 2019 Se describe la reptiliofáunula Papalutla, Neocomiano del Municipio de Huajuapan de León, Región Mixteca Oaxaqueña, sureste de México, procedente de una formación margosa innominada, constituida por limolita calcárea portadora de peces, reptiles y ...
Ismael Ferrusquía-Villafranca +1 more
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Late Cretaceous Plesiosaur Teeth from Axel Heiberg Island, Nunavut, Canada [PDF]
, 2009 We report the discovery of Late Cretaceous plesiosaur teeth from non-marine strata on Axel Heiberg Island in the Canadian High Arctic. In comparison to other plesiosaur teeth, these specimens are most similar to the teeth of elasmosaurs: they have a ...
Brinkman, Donald B. +2 more
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Los Plesiosaurios (Reptilia, Sauropterygia) más antiguos del Cretácico Superior bajo de la Patagonia Austral, Argentina [PDF]
, 2020 Plesiosaurs are recorded for the first time from the lower section of Mata Amarilla Formation, Santa Cruz Province, Patagonia, Argentina. The stratigraphic succession consists of mudstones and siltstones interbedded with medium to fine-grained sandstone,
O'Gorman, José Patricio +1 more
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