Cranial anatomy and functional morphology of Pliosaurus brachyspondylus (Reptilia: Plesiosauria) from the Upper Jurassic of Westbury, Wiltshire

MA Taylor, ARI Cruickshank - … Transactions of the …, 1993 - royalsocietypublishing.org
An exceptionally complete skull, mandible and other bones of Pliosaurus brachyspondylus
were collected from the Kimmeridge Clay of Westbury, Wiltshire, in 1980. The recovery and …

A redescription of Plesiosaurus propinquus Tate & Blake, 1876 (Reptilia, Plesiosauria), from the Lower Jurassic (Toarcian) of Yorkshire, England

P Vincent, AS Smith - Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological …, 2009 - lyellcollection.org
The type specimen (WM 851. S, skull and post-cranial skeleton) of Plesiosaurus propinquus
Tate & Blake, 1876, from the Toarcian (Upper Lias, Lower Jurassic) of Yorkshire, is re …

The taphonomic attributes of a Late Cretaceous plesiosaur skeleton from New Zealand

KM Barnes, N Hiller - Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of …, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
The pre-burial history of a partial elasmosaurid plesiosaur skeleton is reconstructed from
analysis of the distribution and modification of bones preserved in a calcareous …

[PDF][PDF] Further records of plesiosaurian reptiles of Jurassic and Cretaceous age from Western Australia

JA Long, ARI Cruickshank - RECORDS-WESTERN AUSTRALIAN …, 1998 - academia.edu
Isolated vertebrae, limb bones and a tooth of plesiosaurian reptiles are described from the
Middle Jurassic Colalura Sandstone, near Geraldton, Perth Basin; the Early Cretaceous …

A new elasmosaurid (Sauropterygia, Plesiosauria) from the upper levels of the La Colonia Formation (upper Maastrichtian), Chubut Province, Argentina

JP O'Gorman, AP Carignano, L Calvo-Marcilese… - Cretaceous …, 2023 - Elsevier
A new elasmosaurid, Chubutinectes carmeloi gen. et sp. nov., from the Chubut Province,
Argentina, is described. The holotype and only specimen of this species (MPEF-PV 5232) …

The anatomy and taxonomy of Macroplata tenuiceps (Sauropterygia, Plesiosauria) from the Hettangian (Lower Jurassic) of Warwickshire, United Kingdom

HF Ketchum, AS Smith - Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT A detailed re-description and revised diagnosis is given for Macroplata
tenuiceps Swinton, 1930, a plesiosaurian known from a single almost complete specimen …

A new pliosaurid (Sauropterygia, Plesiosauria) from the Oxford Clay Formation (Middle Jurassic., Callovian) of England: Evidence for a gracile, longirostrine grade of …

H Ketchum, R Benson - Special Papers in Palaeontology, 2011 - ora.ox.ac.uk
A partial skeleton from the Sigiloceras enodatum ammonite Subzone (lower Callovian,
Middle Jurassic) of the Oxford Clay Formation of Quest Pit, near Stewartby, Bedfordshire …

Elasmosaurid phylogeny and paleobiogeography, with a reappraisal of Aphrosaurus furlongi from the Maastrichtian of the Moreno Formation

JP O'Gorman - Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
The holotype of the elasmosaurid Aphrosaurus furlongi from the Maastrichtian levels of the
Moreno Formation is redescribed and considered a valid species based on one …

New plesiosaur specimens from the Maastrichtian Phosphates of Morocco and their implications for the ecology of the latest Cretaceous marine apex predators

P Vincent, N Bardet, A Houssaye, M Amaghzaz… - Gondwana …, 2013 - Elsevier
Several clades of marine tetrapods, including the apex predators mosasaurs and
plesiosaurs, disappeared during the mass extinction at the end of the Cretaceous, about …

CT-scan description of Alexandronectes zealandiensis (Elasmosauridae, Aristonectinae), with comments on the elasmosaurid internal cranial features

JP O'Gorman, RA Otero, N Hiller… - Journal of Vertebrate …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
The holotype specimen of Alexandronectes zealandiensis is analyzed using digital
reconstruction based on CT scans. Additional information regarding internal anatomy or …