The rise of macropredatory pliosaurids near the Early-Middle Jurassic transition

S Sachs, D Madzia, B Thuy, BP Kear - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
The emergence of gigantic pliosaurid plesiosaurs reshaped the trophic structure of
Mesozoic marine ecosystems, and established an~ 80 million-year (Ma) dynasty of …

Plesiosaurs from the fluvial Kem Kem Group (mid-Cretaceous) of eastern Morocco and a review of non-marine plesiosaurs

G Bunker, DM Martill, RE Smith, S Zouhri… - Cretaceous Research, 2022 - Elsevier
Plesiosaurs were a long-lived and widespread group of marine reptiles, with a worldwide
distribution and a temporal range from the Late Triassic to the Late Cretaceous. Most occur …

An annotated checklist of Australian Mesozoic tetrapods

SF Poropat, PR Bell, LJ Hart… - … Australasian Journal of …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
In 2020, the Australasian palaeontological association Australasian Palaeontologists (AAP)
joined the Australian government-supported Australian National Species List (auNSL) …

Top of the food chains: an ecological network of the marine Paja Formation biota from the Early Cretaceous of Colombia reveals the highest trophic levels ever …

D Cortés, HCE Larsson - Zoological Journal of the Linnean …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The Mesozoic Marine Revolution restructured the world's ocean biodiversity into the
complex marine ecosystems of today. This revolution began during the Triassic but the …

Anatomy and relationships of the bizarre Early Cretaceous pliosaurid Luskhan itilensis

V Fischer, RBJ Benson, NG Zverkov… - Zoological Journal of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Pliosaurid plesiosaurians are iconic marine reptiles that regulated marine trophic chains
from the Middle Jurassic to the early Late Cretaceous. However, their evolution during the …

[HTML][HTML] A truly gigantic pliosaur (reptilia, sauropterygia) from the kimmeridge clay formation (upper jurassic, kimmeridgian) of england

DM Martill, ML Jacobs, RE Smith - Proceedings of the Geologists' …, 2023 - Elsevier
Four isolated cervical vertebrae from the Kimmeridge Clay Formation (Upper Jurassic,
Kimmeridgian) of Abingdon, Oxfordshire, England are identified as from a pliosaurid …

[HTML][HTML] An Early Cretaceous Sphenophyllum or a hatchling turtle?

HD Palma-Castro… - Palaeontologia …, 2023 - palaeo-electronica.org
Correctly identifying fossil specimens from parautochtonous deposits where marine and
terrestrial organisms co-occur can be challenging due to the abundance of rare and obscure …

Historical significance and taxonomic status of Ischyrodon meriani (Pliosauridae) from the Middle Jurassic of Switzerland

D Madzia, S Sachs, C Klug - PeerJ, 2022 - peerj.com
Ischyrodon meriani is an obscure pliosaurid taxon established upon an exceptionally large
tooth crown of a probable Callovian (Middle Jurassic) age that originates from Wölflinswil …

Stratigraphic distribution of marine vertebrates from the Arcillolitas abigarradas Member (Paja Formation) of the Villa de Leiva–Sáchica-Sutamarchán region, Boyacá …

CD Benavides-Cabra… - Earth Sciences …, 2023 - revistas.unal.edu.co
The Villa de Leiva–Sáchica-Sutamarchán region is the most prolific locality for Early
Cretaceous marine vertebrates in Colombia and one of the richest in these vertebrates in the …

[HTML][HTML] Procumbent anterior premaxillary teeth in Stenorhynchosaurus munozi (Plesiosauria, Pliosauridae), evidence from new material

ME Páramo-Fonseca, CD Benavides-Cabra… - Earth Sciences …, 2023 - scielo.org.co
ABSTRACT A recently prepared fragment of the anterior end of a snout comprising occluded
upper and lower jaws of a juvenile individual of Stenorhynchosaurus munozi Páramo …