[HTML][HTML] A new large pliosaurid from the Barremian (Lower Cretaceous) of Sáchica, Boyacá, Colombia

ME Páramo-Fonseca, CD Benavides-Cabra… - Earth Sciences …, 2018 - scielo.org.co
ABSTRACT A new pliosaurid specimen found in the Barremian beds of Sáchica, a town
near Villa de Leiva, representing the more complete skeleton found in the region is …

The macroevolutionary landscape of short-necked plesiosaurians

V Fischer, JA MacLaren, LC Soul, RF Bennion… - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
Throughout their evolution, tetrapods have repeatedly colonised a series of ecological
niches in marine ecosystems, producing textbook examples of convergent evolution …

Re-appearance of hypercarnivore ichthyosaurs in the Cretaceous with differentiated dentition: revision of 'Platypterygius' sachicarum (Reptilia: Ichthyosauria …

D Cortés, EE Maxwell, HCE Larsson - Journal of Systematic …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Early Cretaceous ichthyosaur diversity has markedly increased in recent years with the
discovery of new taxa in the field and in museum collections. This has led to new characters …

Late Jurassic teeth of plesiosauroid origin from the Owadów-Brzezinki Lägerstatte, Central Poland

Ł Weryński, B Błażejowski - PeerJ, 2023 - peerj.com
Owadów-Brzezinki is currently one of the most promising Upper Jurassic sites in Central
Poland, with a wide array of both vertebrate and invertebrate fossil fauna present. The …

Refining the marine reptile turnover at the Early–Middle Jurassic transition

V Fischer, R Weis, B Thuy - PeerJ, 2021 - peerj.com
Even though a handful of long-lived reptilian clades dominated Mesozoic marine
ecosystems, several biotic turnovers drastically changed the taxonomic composition of these …

[HTML][HTML] A reappraisal of Polyptychodon (Plesiosauria) from the Cretaceous of England

D Madzia - PeerJ, 2016 - peerj.com
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 …

A new specimen of Platypterygius sachicarum (Reptilia, Ichthyosauria) from the Early Cretaceous of Colombia and its phylogenetic implications

EE Maxwell, D Cortés, P Patarroyo… - Journal of Vertebrate …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Platypterygius sachicarum is one of the few Lower Cretaceous ichthyosaurian species
described from the Hauterivian–Aptian-aged Paja Formation, the most complete Lower …

A new ophthalmosaurid ichthyosaur from the Late Jurassic of Owadów-Brzezinki Quarry, Poland

D Tyborowski - Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 2016 - BioOne
A new Late Jurassic ophthalmosaurid ichthyosaur Cryopterygius kielanae sp. nov. is
described from carbonate deposits of Owadów-Brzezinki Quarry, Central Poland …

A new specimen of Stenorhynchosaurus munozi Páramo-Fonseca et al., 2016 (Plesiosauria, Pliosauridae), from the Barremian of Colombia: new morphological …

ME Páramo-Fonseca… - Journal of Vertebrate …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT A new specimen of Stenorhynchosaurus munozi Páramo-Fonseca et al., 2016
(Plesiosauria, Pliosauridae), found at Sáchica (Boyacá, Colombia) in upper Barremian beds …

Cranial osteology of the mid-Cretaceous elasmosaurid Thalassomedon haningtoni from the Western Interior Seaway of North America

S Sachs, J Lindgren, D Madzia, BP Kear - Cretaceous Research, 2021 - Elsevier
Thalassomedon haningtoni is one of the most completely preserved elasmosaurid
plesiosaurians described to date. Unlike most other elasmosaurid fossils, both the holotype …