The holotype of Brancasaurus brancai is one of the most historically famous and
anatomically complete Early Cretaceous plesiosaurian fossils. It derived from the …

Plesiosaurs were a highly successful group of marine reptiles occurring worldwide in the
Jurassic and Cretaceous, but to date few studies have focused on their preservation through …

Elasmosauridae constitutes one of the most immediately recognizable plesiosaurian
radiations. Their distinctive body plan represents the popular model for Plesiosauria, and is …

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 …

The systematics of elasmosaurids are not well resolved partially because of the scarcity of
well-preserved skull material. Among Weddellian elasmosaurids, one exception to this is the …

We provide a complete description of one of the oldest plesiosaurians, Stratesaurus taylori
from the earliest Hettangian of the United Kingdom. At least 25 apomorphies distinguish S …

Most of the known and most-complete Early Jurassic specimens of plesiosaurians were
recovered from the United Kingdom and Germany, and few specimens from that age …

We describe the first plesiosaurian remains of Barremian age from the Iberian Peninsula.
The fossils come from several sites in the Blesa Formation in Teruel (Spain). The recovered …

Two new plesiosaurian specimens coming from lower Turonian deposits of Goulmima in
Morocco are described. The three-dimensional digital reconstructions of both specimens …

Turonian deposits of the Goulmima area, Er-Rachidia Province in southern Morocco, have
yielded a diverse marine vertebrate fauna, including chondrichthyans, bony fishes, and …