Growth patterns and life-history strategies in Placodontia (Diapsida: Sauropterygia) [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2015 Placodontia is a clade of durophagous, near shore marine reptiles from Triassic sediments of modern-day Europe, Middle East and China. Although much is known about their primary anatomy and palaeoecology, relatively little has been published regarding ...
Nicole Klein +3 more
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The oldest plesiosaur (Reptilia, Sauropterygia) from Antarctica [PDF]
Polar Research, 2011 Antarctic plesiosaurs are known from the Upper Cretaceous López de Bertodano and Snow Hill Island formations (Campanian to upper Maastrichtian), which crop out within the James Ross Basin region of the Antarctic Peninsula.
Alexander Wilhelm Armin Kellner +10 more
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Osteología comparada de las familias Nothosauridae y Simosauridae (Reptilia. Sauropterygia)
Estudios Geologicos, 1984 La supuesta condición homodonta de Simosaurus es inexacta, pudiéndose diferenciar piezas sinfisiarias y postsinfisiarias, en base a criterios morfológicos y de tamaño.
J. L. Sanz
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PLoS ONE, 2010 BackgroundSauropterygia is an abundant and successful group of Triassic marine reptiles. Phylogenetic relationships of Triassic Sauropterygia have always been unstable and recently questioned.
Nicole Klein
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Hematological convergence between Mesozoic marine reptiles (Sauropterygia) and extant aquatic amniotes elucidates diving adaptations in plesiosaurs [PDF]
PeerJ, 2019 Plesiosaurs are a prominent group of Mesozoic marine reptiles, belonging to the more inclusive clades Pistosauroidea and Sauropterygia. In the Middle Triassic, the early pistosauroid ancestors of plesiosaurs left their ancestral coastal habitats and ...
Corinna V. Fleischle +3 more
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The braincase anatomy of Simosaurus gaillardoti (Diapsida: Sauropterygia) revealed with X-ray micro-computed tomography [PDF]
PeerJSauropterygia is a clade of Mesozoic marine reptiles that includes the eosauropterygian Simosaurus gaillardoti Von Meyer, 1842, classically considered to be a member of Nothosauroidea.
Elisa H. London +3 more
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Growth patterns, sexual dimorphism, and maturation modeled in Pachypleurosauria from Middle Triassic of central Europe (Diapsida: Sauropterygia) [PDF]
Fossil Record, 2018 Bone tissue, microanatomy, and growth are studied in humeri of the pachypleurosaurs Dactylosaurus from the early Anisian of Poland and of aff. Neusticosaurus pusillus from the Lettenkeuper (early Ladinian) of southern Germany.
N. Klein, E. M. Griebeler
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Skeletal ossification of Middle Triassic pachypleurosaur Keichousaurus hui (Reptilia: Sauropterygia) revealed by zinc distribution [PDF]
PeerJThe elemental composition of seven specimens of Keichousaurus hui, a small pachypleurosaur from the Middle Triassic of China, was analyzed via Micro X-ray fluorescence (Micro-XRF).
Yi-nuo Wang +6 more
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An injured pachypleurosaur (Diapsida: Sauropterygia) from the Middle Triassic Luoping Biota indicating predation pressure in the Mesozoic [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2021 The Middle Triassic Luoping Biota in south-west China represents the inception of modern marine ecosystems, with abundant and diverse arthropods, fishes and marine reptiles, indicating recovery from the Permian–Triassic mass extinction.
Qiling Liu +7 more
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Foreflipper and hindflipper muscle reconstructions of Cryptoclidus eurymerus in comparison to functional analogues: introduction of a myological mechanism for flipper twisting [PDF]
PeerJ, 2021 Background Plesiosaurs, diapsid crown-group Sauropterygia, inhabited the oceans from the Late Triassic to the Late Cretaceous. Their most exceptional characteristic are four hydrofoil-like flippers.
Anna Krahl, Ulrich Witzel
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