Early Cretaceous polar biotas of Victoria, southeastern Australia—an overview of research to date

SF Poropat, SK Martin, AMP Tosolini… - Alcheringa: An …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Poropat, SF, Martin, SK, Tosolini, A.-MP, Wagstaff, BE, Bean, LB, Kear, BP, Vickers-Rich, P.
& Rich, TH, May 2018. Early Cretaceous polar biotas of Victoria, southeastern Australia—an …

The locomotory apparatus and paraxial swimming in fossil and living marine reptiles: comparing Nothosauroidea, Plesiosauria, and Chelonioidea

A Krahl - PalZ, 2021 - Springer
The terrestrial origins of the diapsid Sauropterygia and Testudines are uncertain, with the
latter being highly controversially discussed to this day. For only 15 Ma, Nothosauroidea …

The rise of macropredatory pliosaurids near the Early-Middle Jurassic transition

S Sachs, D Madzia, B Thuy, BP Kear - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
The emergence of gigantic pliosaurid plesiosaurs reshaped the trophic structure of
Mesozoic marine ecosystems, and established an~ 80 million-year (Ma) dynasty of …

Giant pliosaurids (Sauropterygia; Plesiosauria) from the Lower Cretaceous peri-Gondwanan seas of Colombia and Australia

LF Noè, M Gómez-Pérez - Cretaceous Research, 2022 - Elsevier
Kronosaurus boyacensis is the most famous and most important Lower Cretaceous marine
reptile fossil recovered from the Villa de Leyva region of Boyacá, Colombia, northern South …

Increased pliosaurid dental disparity across the Jurassic–Cretaceous transition

NG Zverkov, V Fischer, D Madzia, RBJ Benson - Palaeontology, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Pliosaurid marine reptiles played important roles in marine food chains from the Middle
Jurassic to the middle Cretaceous, frequently as apex predators. The evolution of …

Elasmosaurid phylogeny and paleobiogeography, with a reappraisal of Aphrosaurus furlongi from the Maastrichtian of the Moreno Formation

JP O'Gorman - Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
The holotype of the elasmosaurid Aphrosaurus furlongi from the Maastrichtian levels of the
Moreno Formation is redescribed and considered a valid species based on one …

Estimating the evolutionary rates in mosasauroids and plesiosaurs: discussion of niche occupation in Late Cretaceous seas

D Madzia, A Cau - PeerJ, 2020 - peerj.com
Observations of temporal overlap of niche occupation among Late Cretaceous marine
amniotes suggest that the rise and diversification of mosasauroid squamates might have …

The cranial anatomy and relationships of Cardiocorax mukulu (Plesiosauria: Elasmosauridae) from Bentiaba, Angola

MP Marx, O Mateus, MJ Polcyn, AS Schulp… - PloS one, 2021 - journals.plos.org
We report a new specimen of the plesiosaur Cardiocorax mukulu that includes the most
complete plesiosaur skull from sub-Saharan Africa. The well-preserved three-dimensional …

A new elasmosaurid plesiosaurian from the Early Cretaceous of Russia marks an early attempt at neck elongation

V Fischer, NG Zverkov, MS Arkhangelsky… - Zoological Journal of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Plesiosaurian marine reptiles evolved a wide range of body shapes during the Jurassic and
Cretaceous, including long-necked forms. Many Late Cretaceous members of the clade …

A 'long-forgotten'plesiosaur provides evidence of large-bodied rhomaleosaurids in the Middle Jurassic of Germany

S Sachs, P Abel, D Madzia - Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Described in 1858, Trematospondylus macrocephalus is one of the earliest established
plesiosaur taxa. However, despite being historically significant, the taxon disappeared from …