Environmental changes governed the diversity of marine ecosystems and the evolution of
marine reptiles during the Jurassic. Abrupt climatic changes, mainly cooling, produced …

Background Dakosaurus and Plesiosuchus are characteristic genera of aquatic, large-
bodied, macrophagous metriorhynchid crocodylomorphs. Recent studies show that these …

Pliosaurids were a long-lived and cosmopolitan group of marine predators that spanned 110
million years and occupied the upper tiers of marine ecosystems from the Middle Jurassic …

During the Middle and Late Jurassic, pliosaurid plesiosaurs evolved gigantic body size and
a series of craniodental adaptations that have been linked to the occupation of an apex …

From one of the most complete Lower Cretaceous rock sequences in the world (in Villa de
Leiva region, central Colombia), we describe a new genus and species of pliosaurid …

Peloneustes philarchus is the most abundant pliosaurid from the Peterborough Member of
the Oxford Clay Formation (Callovian) of the UK. It is a valid taxon possessing a unique …

The predatory pliosaurs were among the largest creatures ever to inhabit the oceans, some
reaching gigantic proportions greater than 15 m in length. Fossils of this subclade of …

Underwater locomotion by plesiosaurs has long been a controversial problem with many
hypotheses suggested. Almost without exception these models were based on limited …

Pliosaurids (Plesiosauria: Pliosauridae) are large-headed, short-necked plesiosaurians that
first appeared in the Middle Jurassic and prospered worldwide through the Middle to Late …

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 …