Unusual plesiosaur vertebrae from the Lower Jurassic Posidonia Shale of Germany

S Sachs, P Abel, D Madzia - Historical Biology, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT The Toarcian (upper Lower Jurassic) strata of the world-renowned Posidonia
Shale of Central Europe have yielded diverse assemblages of marine vertebrates. Some of …

Body reconstruction and size estimation of plesiosaurs

RJ Zhao - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Body size is the key to understanding many biological properties. Sizes of extinct animals
are usually estimated from body reconstructions since their masses can not be weighed …