This paper presents the detailed description of a remarkable skull and partial postcranial
skeleton of a very juvenile elasmosaurid referred to Tuarangisaurus keyesi (CD 427), from …

A partial skull and skeleton of a small, juvenile plesiosaur, part of the historically important
Philpot Collection from Lyme Regis, England, is described. It is assigned tentatively to …

Histological observations of homologous bones (vertebrae, ribs, humerus, phalanges)
among conspecific juvenileand adult Upper Cretaceous plesiosaurs from New Zealand …

Recognition of avascular necrosis through propodial head subsidence in fossils indicates
that plesiosaurs were susceptible to decompression syndrome and implies deep, prolonged …

Elasmosaurs were a group of marine reptiles that lived during the Cretaceous period (about
145 million to 66 million years ago). They were fully adapted to an aquatic lifestyle, and had …

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 …

Sachs, S. & Kear, BP November 2018. A rare new Pliensbachian plesiosaurian from the
Amaltheenton Formation of Bielefeld in northwestern Germany. Alcheringa 42, 487-500 …

ABSTRACT A new taxon of elasmosaurid plesiosaur from northern Alberta, Wapuskanectes
betsynichollsae gen. et sp. nov., is described. The specimen was recovered from the Lower …

The specimen NHMUK 39514 comprises the cranial remains of a plesiosaur found on the
Dorset coast during the middle of the ninetieth century. It was partially described and figured …

Elasmosaurid plesiosaurians were globally prolific marine reptiles that dominated the
Mesozoic seas for over 70 million years. Their iconic body-plan incorporated an exceedingly …