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 …

Elasmosaurid plesiosaurians are renowned for their immensely long necks, and indeed,
possessed the highest number of cervical vertebrae for any known vertebrate. Historically …

Plesiosaurs were a diverse clade of marine reptiles that spanned nearly three-quarters of
the Mesozoic (earliest Jurassic to latest Cretaceous). They exhibit variation in head and …

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 …

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 …

The sauropterygian clade Plesiosauria arose in the Late Triassic and survived to the very
end of the Cretaceous. A long, flexible neck with over 35 cervicals (the highest number of …

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 …

The typical mammalian neck consisting of seven cervical vertebrae (C1–C7) was
established by the Late Permian in the cynodont forerunners of modern mammals. This …

The Antarctic plesiosaurian record is critical for understanding the evolution of
elasmosaurids in the southern hemisphere. Elasmosaurids exhibit some of the most …

Current knowledge of plesiosaurs of clade Cryptoclidia is constrained by a lack of fossils
from outside the Oxford Clay deposits of England. Recent fieldwork in the Sundance …