The evolution and function of the long neck in plesiosaurs, and how the problems
associated with stiffness or flexibility were overcome during feeding, or rapid swimming …

Plesiosaurs are an enigmatic, diverse extinct group of Mesozoic marine reptiles well known
for their unique body plan with two pairs of flippers and usually an elongated neck. The long …

New observations on the holotype of the Maastrichtian aristonectine elasmosaurid
Aristonectes parvidens Cabrera from Chubut Province, Argentina, reveals features that were …

The elongate-necked aquatic plesiosaurs existed for 135 Myr during the Mesozoic. The
function of this elongate neck is a point of debate. Using computed tomography and three …

A new plesiosaur partial skeleton, comprising most of the trunk and including axial, limb, and
girdle bones, was collected in the lower Sinemurian (Coimbra Formation) of Praia da …

The sauropterygian clade Plesiosauria arose in the Late Triassic and survived to the very
end of the Cretaceous. Plesiosauria evolved the greatest species diversity of any marine …

The Plesiosauria is a group of marine reptiles that originated at the base of the Jurassic and
went extinct in the end-Cretaceous mass extinction. Plesiosaur fossils have been known …

Despite recent advances in noninvasive imaging, Plesiosauria remains one of the least
explored clades of reptiles with respect to paleoneuroanatomy. Only partial endocasts …

The dichotomy between short-necked, large-headed “pliosaurs” and long-necked, small-
headed “plesiosaurs” has formed the basis of plesiosaur taxonomy for over one hundred …

Secondary marine adaptation is a major pattern in amniote evolution, accompanied by
specific bone histological adaptations. In the aftermath of the end-Permian extinction …