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 …

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

The site of Goulmima (south Morocco) is well known for its rich marine fauna of Turonian
age (Late Cretaceous). It has yielded a large variety of invertebrates but also of vertebrate …

A new plesiosaur partial skeleton, comprising most of the trunk and including axial, limb, and
girdle bones, was collected in the lower Sinemurian (Coimbra Formation) of Praia da …

Plesiosauria is a clade of medium to large bodied marine reptiles with a cosmopolitan
distribution ranging from the latest Triassic to the end of the Cretaceous. In Europe, the fossil …

Several clades of marine tetrapods, including the apex predators mosasaurs and
plesiosaurs, disappeared during the mass extinction at the end of the Cretaceous, about …

Though the Maastrichtian Phosphates of Morocco have yielded very rich marine vertebrate
assemblages, plesiosaurs remain very scarce in these strata. The only hitherto recognized …

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

Complete plesiosaur skeletons are relatively abundant in the Lower Jurassic of England and
Germany, but are exceptional in France. A new specimen from Normandy (northern France) …

Mesozoic marine reptiles are poorly known in Spain (see Quesada et al., 1998 for a
bibliography). Up to now, the plesiosaur record of Spain consisted only of fragmentary …