Kronosaurus boyacensis is the most famous and most important Lower Cretaceous marine
reptile fossil recovered from the Villa de Leyva region of Boyacá, Colombia, northern South …

Pliosaurus patagonicus sp. nov., from the middle Tithonian, Vaca Muerta Formation,
Neuquén Province, Argentina, is described on an autapomorphic trait—ie., the distance …

Following the marine extinctions at the end of the Jurassic, only three clades of Plesiosauria
passed into the Lower Cretaceous: Brachaucheninae (thalassophonean pliosaurids) …

This study presents the first plesiosaurs recovered from the Jurassic of the Atacama Desert
that are informative at the genus level. One specimen is represented by an articulated axial …

Plesiosaurs constitute a monophyletic group whose stratigraphical range is uppermost
Triassic to uppermost Cretaceous (Brown, 1981). They were large predatory marine reptiles …

Fossil remains of two specimens of the family Pliosauridae are described in the present
manuscript. These fossils are from the Kimmeridgian shallow marine strata belonging to the …

The systematics of the Late Cretaceous non-aristonectine elasmosaurids from Argentinean
Patagonia are poorly known as there is no valid species currently recognized. Here a new …

Three relatively complete elasmosaurid plesiosaurs were recently recovered from the north
of Patagonia, Argentina. They were found in the uppermost levels of the Jagüel Formation …

From one of the most complete Lower Cretaceous rock sequences in the world (in Villa de
Leiva region, central Colombia), we describe a new genus and species of pliosaurid …

Abstract The Plesiosauria (Reptilia: Sauropterygia) is a group of Mesozoic marine reptiles
known from abundant material, with specimens described from all continents. The group …