Cretaceous marine reptiles of Australia: a review of taxonomy and distribution

BP Kear - Cretaceous Research, 2003 - Elsevier
Marine reptile fossils are common in the Cretaceous epicontinental and continental-margin
marine deposits of Australia but much of the material is sparsely documented. A review of …

The locomotory apparatus and paraxial swimming in fossil and living marine reptiles: comparing Nothosauroidea, Plesiosauria, and Chelonioidea

A Krahl - PalZ, 2021 - Springer
The terrestrial origins of the diapsid Sauropterygia and Testudines are uncertain, with the
latter being highly controversially discussed to this day. For only 15 Ma, Nothosauroidea …

The elasmosaurid plesiosaur Aristonectes Cabrera from the latest Cretaceous of South America and Antarctica

Z Gasparini, N Bardet, JE Martin… - Journal of Vertebrate …, 2003 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT Aristonectes parvidens Cabrera, 1941, and Morturneria seymourensis
(Chatterjee and Small, 1989), two plesiosaurs from the Maastrichtian of South America and …

Fossil marine vertebrates from the lowermost Greenhorn Limestone (Upper Cretaceous: middle Cenomanian) in southeastern Colorado

K Shimada, BA Schumacher, JA Parkin… - Journal of …, 2006 - BioOne
Fossiliferous deposits of the Greenhorn Limestone (Upper Cretaceous) are found on the
Comanche National Grassland in southeastern Colorado. The lowest portion of the …

The evolutionary history of polycotylid plesiosaurians

V Fischer, RBJ Benson… - Royal Society …, 2018 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Polycotylidae is a clade of plesiosaurians that appeared during the Early Cretaceous and
became speciose and abundant early in the Late Cretaceous. However, this radiation is …

[HTML][HTML] Reappraisal of Europe's most complete Early Cretaceous plesiosaurian: Brancasaurus brancai Wegner, 1914 from the “Wealden facies” of Germany

S Sachs, JJ Hornung, BP Kear - PeerJ, 2016 - peerj.com
The holotype of Brancasaurus brancai is one of the most historically famous and
anatomically complete Early Cretaceous plesiosaurian fossils. It derived from the …

Mid-Cenomanian vertebrate faunas of the Western Interior Seaway of North America and their evolutionary, paleobiogeographical, and paleoecological implications

SL Cumbaa, K Shimada, TD Cook - Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology …, 2010 - Elsevier
The Western Interior Seaway (WIS) was an epicontinental sea that extended north–south
through the middle of North America during the last half of the Cretaceous, linking the Tethys …

Plesiosaurs from the Upper Cretaceous (Cenomanian–Turonian) tropic shale of southern Utah, part 2: polycotylidae

LB Albright III, DD Gillette, AL Titus - Journal of Vertebrate …, 2007 - Taylor & Francis
Recent fieldwork in the Tropic Shale of southern Utah has resulted in the recovery of several
specimens of short-necked plesiosaurs including both polycotylid plesiosauroids and …

An elasmosaur with stomach contents and gastroliths from the Pierre Shale (Late Cretaceous) of Kansas

DJ Cicimurri, MJ Everhart - Transactions of the Kansas Academy of …, 2001 - BioOne
A nearly complete skeleton of an elasmosaurid plesiosaur (NJSM 15435) from the Sharon
Springs Member (Middle Campanian) of the Pierre Shale, Logan County, Kansas, is …

Osteology of a new plesiosaur from the Lower Cretaceous (Albian) Thermopolis Shale of Montana

PS Druckenmiller - Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 2002 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT A new taxon of Cretaceous short-necked plesiosaur, Edgarosaurus muddi, gen.
et sp. nov., is described. The specimen consists of a complete skull, 34 vertebrae including …