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

Here we report on a new basal elasmosaurid plesiosaurian, Lagenanectes richterae, gen. et
sp. nov., from the Lower Cretaceous (probably Upper Hauterivian) of Germany. The material …

Pliosauridae is a globally distributed clade of aquatic predatory amniotes whose fossil
record spans from the Lower Jurassic to the Upper Cretaceous. However, the knowledge of …

Abstract During the Cenomanian–Turonian transition (∼ 94 Ma), what is today Central
Russia formed part of the northern epicontinental margin of the Tethys Ocean. Diverse …

Despite being known for over 155 years, the Late Cretaceous marine amniotes of the
Bohemian Cretaceous Basin in the Czech Republic have received little recent attention …

Pliosaurid plesiosaurs were among the largest predators of Mesozoic marine ecosystems
attaining giant sizes up to 10–11 m in length, near a quarter of which could be constituted by …

A few isolated plesiosaurian and mosasauroid squamate teeth were collected from the
Opole area in southwest Poland during the late nineteenth century. Calcareous nannofossil …

The Saxonian Cretaceous Basin constitutes an important source of rare Late Cretaceous
marine amniote fossils from Germany. It is also historically famous, having been …

The first pliosaurid finding in Austria is described from a Lower Cretaceous (Hauterivian)
pelagic to hemipelagic limestone succession of the Northern Calcareous Alps (Bajuvaric …

A total of 462 coprolites from three localities exposing Upper Cretaceous deposits in the
Münster Basin, northwestern Germany, have been subjected to an array of analytical …