A large pteranodontid pterosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Eastern Europe

AO Averianov, MS Arkhangelsky - Geological Magazine, 2021 - cambridge.org
The Campanian Beloe Ozero locality within the Rybushka Formation in Saratov Province,
Russia, is one of the richest and most diverse Upper Cretaceous pterosaur localities in …

[HTML][HTML] Fossil marine vertebrates (Chondrichthyes, Actinopterygii, Reptilia) from the Upper Cretaceous of Akkermanovka (Orenburg Oblast, Southern Urals, Russia)

PL Jambura, SV Solonin, SLA Cooper, EV Mychko… - Cretaceous …, 2024 - Elsevier
Upper Cretaceous coastal marine deposits are widespread in the Southern Urals with a
number of marine vertebrates previously reported from this region. However, previous …

Marine Fishes (Chondrichthyes, Holocephali, Actinopterygii) from the Upper Cretaceous (Campanian) Rybushka Formation near Beloe Ozero, Saratov Oblast, Russia

JA Ebersole, SV SOLONIN, DJ Cicimurri… - Rivista Italiana di …, 2022 - riviste.unimi.it
A diverse fish paleofauna occurs in the upper Campanian portion of the Rybushka
Formation exposed near Saratov city in the Saratov Oblast, Russia. Twenty taxa have been …

[HTML][HTML] Late Cretaceous marine reptiles from Malyy Prolom in Ryazan Oblast, Central Russia

SV Solonin, AV Vodorezov, BP Kear - Cretaceous Research, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract During the Cenomanian–Turonian transition (∼ 94 Ma), what is today Central
Russia formed part of the northern epicontinental margin of the Tethys Ocean. Diverse …

Marine reptiles and climates of the Jurassic and Cretaceous of Siberia

MA Rogov, NG Zverkov, VA Zakharov… - Stratigraphy and …, 2019 - Springer
All current data on the Jurassic and Cretaceous climates of Siberia based on isotope,
paleontological, and lithological proxies are summarized. The late Pliensbachian cooling …

Basicranium of an elasmosaurid plesiosaur from the Campanian of European Russia

NG Zverkov, AO Averianov… - … : An Australasian Journal of …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Zverkov, NG, Averianov, AO & Popov EV, April 2017. Basicranium of an elasmosaurid
plesiosaur from the Campanian of European Russia. Alcheringa 42, 528-542. ISSN 0311 …

Revision of the plesiosaur Polycotylus sopozkoi from the Southern Urals (Russia) confirms the wide distribution of Polycotylus in the Late Cretaceous of the Northern …

NG Zverkov, DV Grigoriev, IA Meleshin… - Cretaceous Research, 2024 - Elsevier
Polycotylids are among the most common plesiosaurians of the Late Cretaceous, however,
in Eurasia their findings are rare and fragmentary. In 2016, a partial polycotylid skeleton from …

Taxonomy and historical inertia: Clidastes (Squamata: Mosasauridae) as a case study of problematic paleobiological taxonomy

JR Lively - Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
I review the taxonomic history of two problematic mosasaur species, Clidastes liodontus and
Clidastes moorevillensis. The genus Clidastes is thought to represent an early radiation of a …

The use of zygapophyseal skeletochronology in individual age determination of a basal mosasauroid (Squamata, Mosasauridae) from the Campanian of Saratov …

DV Grigoriev, MS Arkhangelsky, VV Kolchanov… - Paleontological …, 2022 - Springer
Here we determine the individual age of a basal mosasaur (subfamily Halisaurinae) using
zygapophyseal skeletochronology. This study is based on the cervical vertebra from the Late …

Mosasaurs (Squamata: Mosasauridae) from the Upper Cretaceous of the Southern Urals

DV Grigoriev, NG Zverkov, AV Nikiforov - Paleontological Journal, 2024 - Springer
The study of new finds of mosasaurids from the Izhberda locality (Southern Urals, Orenburg
Region) has made it possible to record for the first time the presence of mosasaurs from the …