Classification
Sites de découverte 605 sites géolocalisés
Répartition
Principaux pays
Formations géologiques
Distribution temporelle
Danien
(66–61.66 Ma)
1
Maastrichtien
(72.2–66 Ma)
130
Campanien
(83.6–72.2 Ma)
136
Santonien
(85.7–83.6 Ma)
28
Coniacien
(89.8–85.7 Ma)
12
Turonien
(93.9–89.8 Ma)
35
Cénomanien
(100.5–93.9 Ma)
32
Albien
(113.2–100.5 Ma)
25
Aptien
(121.4–113.2 Ma)
10
Barrémien
(125.77–121.4 Ma)
5
Hauterivien
(132.6–125.77 Ma)
10
Valanginien
(137.05–132.6 Ma)
11
Berriasien
(143.1–137.05 Ma)
10
Tithonien
(149.2–143.1 Ma)
22
Kimméridgien
(154.8–149.2 Ma)
37
Oxfordian
(161.5–154.8 Ma)
18
Callovien
(165.3–161.5 Ma)
26
Bathonien
(168.2–165.3 Ma)
3
Bajocien
(170.9–168.2 Ma)
2
Aalénien
(174.7–170.9 Ma)
1
Toarcien
(184.2–174.7 Ma)
18
Pliensbachien
(192.9–184.2 Ma)
13
Sinémurien
(199.5–192.9 Ma)
8
Hettangien
(201.4–199.5 Ma)
4
Rhétien
(205.7–201.4 Ma)
7
Norien
(227.3–205.7 Ma)
1
Synonymes (2)
Cimoliosaurus limnophilus
nomen dubium, species not entered Plesiosauroidea
Dolichodeira
subjective synonym of Plesiosauroidea
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Bibliographie
Description originale
R. L. Carroll. 1988. Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution.
Bibliographie (327)
F. E. Novas, J. D’Angelo, and F. Agnolín, R. Otero, J. Garcia Marsà, S. Casadio, K. Lacovara, M. Isasi. 2026. New plesiosaur from the uppermost Cretaceous of Patagonia sheds light on thoracic and caudal anatomy in plesiosaurs. Cretaceous Research
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R. A. Otero, S. S. Acuña, and A. O. Vargas, J. Rojas, H. Ortiz, G. Aguirrezabala. 2026. A new Middle Jurassic marine reptile from Gondwana clarifies the origin of Cryptoclidia, the most successful group of plesiosaurs. Papers in Palaeontology 12(2)
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J. P. O’Gorman, P. M. O’Connor, and E. M. Roberts, M. C. Lamanna. 2025. An elasmosaurid plesiosaur with preserved skull material from the Upper Cretaceous Cape Lamb Member of the Snow Hill Island Formation, Vega Island, Antarctic Peninsula. Ameghiniana 62(1):80-99
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F. R. O’Keefe, E. Armour Smith, and R. O. Clark, R. A. Otero, A. Perella, P. Trask. 2025. A name for the Provincial Fossil of British Columbia: a strange new elasmosaur taxon from the Santonian of Vancouver Island. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 23(1):2489938
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R. A. Otero. 2025. Review of two marine vertebrate assemblages from the Arauco Basin (central Chile) reveals diversity changes throughout the Maastrichtian. Cretaceous Research 166(78):105996
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W. A. Alhalabi, N. Bardet, and S. Sachs, B. P. Kear, I. B. Joude, M. K. Yazbek, P. L. Godoy, M. C. Langer. 2024. Recovering lost time in Syria: New Late Cretaceous (Coniacian-Santonian) elasmosaurid remains from the Palmyrides mountain chain. Cretaceous Research 159(105871):1-10
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R. O. Clark, F. R. O'Keefe, and S. E. Slack. 2024. A new genus of small polycotylid plesiosaur from the Upper Cretaceous of the Western Interior Seaway and a clarification of the genus Dolichorhynchops. Cretaceous Research 157:105812:1-35
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P. L. Jambura, S. V. Solonin, and S. L. A. Cooper, E. V. Mychko, M. S. Arkhangelsky, J. Türtscher, M. Amadori, S. Stumpf, A. V. Vodorezov, J. Kriwet. 2024. Fossil marine vertebrates (Chondrichthyes, Actinopterygii, Reptilia) from the Upper Cretaceous of Akkermanovka (Orenburg Oblast, Southern Urals, Russia). Cretaceous Research 155(105779)
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J. P. O’Gorman, J. I. Canale, and P. Bona, D. E. Tineo, M. Reguero, M. Cárdenas. 2024. A new elasmosaurid (Plesiosauria: Sauropterygia) from the López de Bertodano Formation: new data on the evolution of the aristonectine morphology. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 22(1):2312302
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S. Sachs, S. Eggmaier, and D. Madzia. 2024. Exquisite skeletons of a new transitional plesiosaur fill gap in the evolutionary history of plesiosauroids. Frontiers in Earth Science 12(1341470):1-10
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J. S. D’Angelo, J. A. G. Marsà, and F. L. Agnolín, F. E. Novas. 2023. Biological implications of the bone microstructure of a new elasmosaurid (Sauropterygia, Plesiosauroidea) from the uppermost Cretaceous of Patagonia. Historical Biology
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J. P. O'Gorman and R. A. Otero. 2023. Revision of the short-necked Cretaceous plesiosaurians from New Zealand. Comptes Rendus Palevol 22(6):77-90
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J. P. O'Gorman, A. P. Carignano, and L. Calvo-Marcilese, J. P. Pérez Panera. 2023. A new elasmosaurid (Sauropterygia, Plesiosauria) from the upper levels of the La Colonia Formation (upper Maastrichtian), Chubut Province, Argentina. Cretaceous Research
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D. Pol, E. Vlachos, and F. Aspromonte. 2023. The end of the dinosaur era in Patagonia (NatGeo Project).
N. G. Zverkov, M. A. Rogov, and V. A. Zakharov, I. G. Danilov, D. V. Grigoriev, M. Kosták. 2023. Northernmost occurrences of plesiosaurs and turtles in the Upper Cretaceous of Eurasia. Cretaceous Research 148:105537:1-17
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A. S. Brum, T. R. Simões, and G. A. Souza, A. E. P. Pinheiro, R. G. Figueiredo, M. W. Caldwell, J. M. Sayão, A. W. A. Kellner. 2022. Ontogeny and evolution of the elasmosaurid neck highlight greater diversity of Antarctic plesiosaurians. Palaeontology 65(2):1-21
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J. P. O'Gorman. 2022. Polycotylidae (Sauropterygia, Plesiosauria) from the La Colonia Formation, Patagonia, Argentina: Phylogenetic affinities of Sulcusuchus erraini and the Late Cretaceous circum-pacific polycotylid diversity. Cretaceous Research 140:105339
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W. S. Persons IV, H. P. Street, and A. Kelley. 2022. A long-snouted and long-necked polycotylid plesiosaur from the Late Cretaceous of North America. iScience 25(10):105033
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J. A. Campbell, M. T. Mitchell, and M. J. Ryan, J. S. Anderson. 2021. A new elasmosaurid (Sauropterygia: Plesiosauria) from the non-marine to paralic Dinosaur Park Formation of southern Alberta, Canada. PeerJ 9:e10720:1-44
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D. Madzia, T. Szczygielski, and A. S. Wolniewicz. 2021. The giant pliosaurid that wasn’t—revising the marine reptiles from the Kimmeridgian, Upper Jurassic, of Krzyżanowice, Poland. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 66:1-31
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M. P. Marx, O. Mateus, and M. J. Polcyn, A. S. Schulp, A. O. Gonçalves, L. L. Jacobs. 2021. The cranial anatomy and relationships of Cardiocorax mukulu (Plesiosauria: Elasmosauridae) from Bentiaba, Angola. PLoS ONE 16(8):e0255773:1-51
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I. Meza-Velez and J. P. O'Gorman. 2021. El registro fósil de plesiosaurios (Diapsida, Sauropterygia) en el Perú. Revista peruana de biología 28(2):1-8
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J. P. O'Gorman. 2021. The most complete specimen of Kawanectes lafquenianum (Sauropterygia, Plesiosauria): new data on basicranial anatomy and possible sexual dimorphism in elasmosaurids. Cretaceous Research 125(104836):1-19
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R. A. Otero and S. Soto-Acuña. 2021. Wunyelfia maulensis gen. et sp. nov., a new basal aristonectine (Plesiosauria,
Elasmosauridae) from the Upper Cretaceous of central Chile. Cretaceous Research 118:104651
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E. Puértolas-Pascual, M. Marx, and O. Mateus, A. Saleiro, A. E. Fernandes, J. Marinheiro, C. Tomás, S. Mateus. 2021. A new plesiosaur from the Lower Jurassic of Portugal and the early radiation of Plesiosauroidea. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 66(2):369-388
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V. Fischer, N. G. Zverkov, and M. S. Arkhangelsky, I. M. Stenshin, I. V. Blagovetshensky, G. N. Uspensky. 2020. A new elasmosaurid plesiosaurian from the Early Cretaceous of Russia marks an early attempt at neck elongation. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society
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C. V. Miller, J. P. O'Gorman, and S. W. Salisbury, R. A. Coria, E. M. Roberts, P. M. O.'Connor, M. A. Reguero, M. C. Lamanna. 2020. A new plesiosaur (Reptilia: Sauropterygia) specimen from the Upper Cretaceous of west Antartica, with comments on the ontogeny and morphological diversity of the elasmosaurid pelvic girdle. Annals of Carnegie Museum 86(2):93-106
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J. P. O'Gorman. 2020. First record of Kawanectes lafquenianum (Plesiosauria, Elasmosauridae) from the La Colonia Formation of Argentina, with comments on the mandibular morphology of elasmosaurids. Alcheringa 44(1):176-193
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J. P. O’Gorman, P. Bona, and M. de los Reyes, M. E. Raffi, M. Reguero. 2020. A non-aristonectine plesiosaur from Antarctica reveals new data on the
mandibular symphysis of elasmosaurids. Alcheringa
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A. J. Roberts, P. S. Druckenmiller, and B. Cordonnier, L. L. Delsett, J. H. Hurum. 2020. A new plesiosaurian from the Jurassic-Cretaceous transitional interval of the Slottsmøya Member (Volgian), with insights into the cranial anatomy of cryptoclidids using computed tomography. PeerJ 8:e8652
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J. P. O'Gorman, R. Otero, and M. Reguero, Z. Gasparini. 2019. Cretaceous Antarctic plesiosaurs: stratigraphy, systematics and paleobiogeography. Advances in Polar Science 30(3):210-227
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J. P. O'Gorman, S. Santillana, and R. Otero, M. Reguero. 2019. A giant elasmosaurid (Sauropterygia; Plesiosauria) from Antarctica: New information on elasmosaurid body size diversity and aristonectine evolutionary scenarios. Cretaceous Research 102:37-58
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M. E. Páramo-Fonseca, J. P. O'Gorman, and Z. Gasparini, S. Padilla, M. L. Parra-Ruge. 2019. A new late Aptian elasmosaurid from the Paja Formation, Villa de Leiva, Colombia. Cretaceous Research 99:30-40
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P. Vincent, R. Weis, and G. Kronz, D. Delsate. 2019. Microcleidus melusinae, a new plesiosaurian (Reptilia, Plesiosauria) from the Toarcian of Luxembourg. Geological Magazine 156(1):99-116
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N. Bardet, M. Segura, and A. Pérez-García. 2018. A plesiosaur (Reptilia, Sauropterygia) from the Cenomanian (Late Cretaceous) of Algora (Guadalajara Province, Central Spain). Cretaceous Research 91:33-40
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M. M. Gilbert, E. L. Bamforth, and L. A. Buatois, R. W. Renaut. 2018. Paleoecology and sedimentology of a vertebrate microfossil assemblage from the easternmost Dinosaur Park Formation (Late Cretaceous, Upper Campanian,) Saskatchewan, Canada: reconstructing diversity in a coastal ecosystem. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 495:227-244
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J. P. O'Gorman, K. M. Panzeri, and M. S. Fernández, S. Santillana, J. J. Moly, M. Reguero. 2018. A new elasmosaurid from the upper Maastrichtian López de Bertodano Formation: new data on weddellonectian diversity. Alcheringa 42(4):575-586
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J. P. O'Gorman, R. A. Coria, and M. Reguero, S. Santillana, T. Mors, M. Cardenas. 2018. The first non-aristonectine elasmosaurid (Sauropterygia; Plesiosauria) cranial material from Antarctica: New data on the evolution of the elasmosaurid basicranium and palate. Cretaceous Research 89:248-263
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R. A. Otero, J. P. O'Gorman, and W. L. Moisley, M. Terezow, J. A. W. McKee. 2018. A juvenile Tuarangisaurus keyesi Wiffen and Moisley 1986 (Plesiosauria, Elasmosauridae) from the Upper Cretaceous of New Zealand, with remarks on its skull ontogeny. Cretaceous Research 85:214-231
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S. Sachs, J. J. Hornung, and U. Scheer. 2018. Mosasaurid and plesiosaurian remains from marginal facies of the lower Campanian (Upper Cretaceous) Bottrop and Vaals formations of western Germany. Cretaceous Research 87:358-367
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A. Santos-Cubedo, B. Poza, and C. d. Santisteban. 2018. Un poco de tierra...un mundo Cretácico: el yacimiento BMG de Portell (Barremiense superior, Castellón) [A handful of land...a Cretaceous world: the BMG site from Portell (upper Barremian, Castellón, Spain)]. Geogaceta 63:91-94
E. Frey, E. W. A. Mulder, and W. Stinnesbeck, H. E. Rivera-Sylva, J. M. Padilla-Gutiérrez, A. H. González-González. 2017. A new polycotylid plesiosaur with extensive soft tissue preservation from the early Late Cretaceous of northeast Mexico. Boletín de la Sociedad Geológica Mexicana 69(1):87-134
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N. Hiller, J. P. O'Gorman, and R. A. Otero, A. A. Mannering. 2017. A reappraisal of the Late Cretaceous Weddellian plesiosaur genus Mauisaurus
Hector, 1874. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 60(2):112-128
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J. P. O'Gorman and R. A. Coria. 2017. A new elasmosaurid specimen from the upper Maastrichtian of Antarctica: new evidence of a monophyletic group of Weddellian elasmosaurids. Alcheringa 41(2):240-249
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S. Sachs, J. J. Hornung, and B. P. Kear. 2017. A new basal elasmosaurid (Sauropterygia: Plesiosauria) from the Lower Cretaceous of Germany. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 37:e1301945
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D. J. Serratos, P. Druckenmiller, and R. B. J. Benson. 2017. A new elasmosaurid (Sauropterygia, Plesiosauria) from the Bearpaw Shale (Late Cretaceous, Maastrichtian) of Montana demonstrates multiple evolutionary reductions of neck length within Elasmosauridae. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 37(2):e1278608
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S. Bogan, F. L. Agnolin, and F. E. Novas. 2016. New selachian records from the Upper Cretaceous of southern Patagonia: paleobiogeographical implications and the description of a new taxon. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 36(3):e1105235:1-9
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V. M. Efimov, I. A. Meleshin, and A. V. Nikiforov. 2016. A New Species of the Plesiosaur Genus Polycotylus from the Upper Cretaceous of the Southern Urals. Paleontological Journal 50(5):494-503
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V. Fischer, N. Bardet, and R. B. J. Benson, M. S. Arkhangelsky, M. Friedman. 2016. Extinction of fish-shaped marine reptiles associated with reduced evolutionary rates and global environmental volatility. Nature Communications 7(10825):1-11
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J. P. O'Gorman, M. Talevi, and M. S. Fernández. 2016. Osteology of a perinatal aristonectine (Plesiosauria; Elasmosauridae). Antarctic Science 29(1):61-72
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J. P. O'Gorman. 2016. A small body sized non-aristonectine elasmosaurid (Sauropterygia,
Plesiosauria) from the Late Cretaceous of Patagonia with comments on the relationships of the patagonian and antarctic elasmosaurids. Ameghiniana 53(3):245-268
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R. A. Otero. 2016. Taxonomic reassessment of Hydralmosaurus as Styxosaurus: new insights on the elasmosaurid neck evolution throughout the Cretaceous. PeerJ 4:e1777:1-60
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R. A. Otero, J. P. O'Gorman, and N. Hiller, F. R. O.'Keefe, R. E. Fordyce. 2016. Alexandronectes zealandiensis gen. et sp. nov., a new aristonectine plesiosaur from the lower Maastrichtian of New Zealand. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 36(2):e1054494:1-14
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B. A. Schumacher and J. E. Martin. 2016. Polycotylus latipinnis Cope (Plesiosauria, Polycotylidae), a nearly complete skeleton from the Niobrara Formation (Early Campanian) of southwestern South Dakota. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 36(1):e1031341:1-15
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R. Araujo, M. J. Polcyn, and J. Lindgren, L. L. Jacobs, A. S. Schulp, O. Mateus, A. Olímpio Gonçalves, M.-L. Morais. 2015. New aristonectine elasmosaurid plesiosaur specimens from the Early Maastrichtian of Angola and comments on paedomorphism in plesiosaurs. Netherlands Journal of Geosciences —– Geologie en Mijnbouw 94(1):93-108
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R. Araújo, M. J. Polcyn, and A. S. Schulp, O. Mateus, L. L. Jacobs, A. O. Olímpio Gonçalves, M.-L. Morais. 2015. A new elasmosaurid from the early Maastrichtian of Angola and the implications of girdle morphology on swimming style in plesiosaurs. Netherlands Journal of Geosciences — Geologie en Mijnbouw 94(1):109-120
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N. Bardet, V. Fischer, and M. Machalski. 2015. Large predatory marine reptiles from the Albian–Cenomanian of Annopol, Poland. Geological Magazine 153(1):1-16
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Z. Gasparini, J. Sterli, and A. Parras, J. P. O.'Gorman, L. Salgado, J. Varela, D. Pol. 2015. Late Cretaceous reptilian biota of the La Colonia Formation, central Patagonia, Argentina: occurrences, preservation and paleoenvironments. Cretaceous Research 54:154-168
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F. E. Novas, J. S. D'Angelo, and J. P. O.'Gorman, F. L. Agnolín, J. M. Lirio, M. P. Isasi. 2015. First record of Polycotylidae (Sauropterygia, plesiosauria) from the Upper Cretaceous of Antarctica. Cretaceous Research 56:563-568
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J. P. O'Gorman, D. G. Lazo, and L. Luci, C. S. Cataldo, E. Schwarz, M. Lescano, M. B. Aguirre-Urreta. 2015. New plesiosaur records from the Lower Cretaceous of the Neuquén Basin, west-central Argentina, with an updated picture of occurrences and facies relationships. Cretaceous Research 56:372-387
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J. P. O'Gorman, L. Salgado, and E. B. Olivero, S. A. Marenssi. 2015. Vegasaurus molyi, gen. et sp. nov. (Plesiosauria, Elasmosauridae), from the Cape Lamb Member (lower maastrichtian) of the Snow Hill Island Formation, Vega Island, Antarctica, and remarks on Wedellian Elasmosauridae. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 35(3):e931285:1-21
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R. A. Otero, S. Soto-Acuña, and D. Rubilar-Rogers. 2015. El registro fósil de plesiosaurios (Sauropterigia) en Chile. Publicación Ocasional del Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, Chile 63:151-188
R. A. Otero, S. Soto-Acuña, and C. Salazar, J. L. Oyarzún. 2015. New elasmosaurids (Sauropterygia, Plesiosauria) from the Late Cretaceous of the Magallanes Basin, Chilean Patagonia: Evidence of a faunal turnover during the Maastrichtian along the Weddellian Biogeographic Province. Andean Geology 42(2):237-267
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R. A. Otero, J. P. O'Gorman, and N. Hiller. 2015. Reassessment of the upper Maastrichtian material from Chile referred to Mauisaurus Hector, 1874 (Plesiosauroidea: Elasmosauridae) and the taxonomical value of the hemispherical propodial head among austral elasmosaurids. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 58(3):252-261
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P. R. Bell, F. Fanti, and M. T. Mitchell, P. J. Currie. 2014. Marine reptiles (Plesiosauria and Mosasauridae) from the Puskwaskau Formation (Santonian-Campanian), West-Central Alberta. Journal of Paleontology 88(1):187-194
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R. B. J. Benson and P. S. Druckenmiller. 2014. Faunal turnover of marine tetrapods during the Jurassic–Cretaceous transition. Biological Reviews 89(1):1-23
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W. R. Callahan, C. M. Mehling, and R. K. Denton Jr, D. C. Parris. 2014. Vertebrate Paleontology and Stratigraphy of the Late Cretaceous Holmdel Park Site, Monmouth County, New Jersey. Dakoterra 6:163-169
H. Cappetta, N. Bardet, and X. Pereda Suberbiola, S. Adnet, D. Akkrim, M. Amalik, A. Benabdallah. 2014. Marine vertebrate faunas from the Maastrichtian phosphates of Benguérir (Ganntour Basin, Morocco): Biostratigraphy, palaeobiogeography and palaeoecology. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 409:217-238
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E. Frey and W. Stinnesbeck. 2014. Plesiosaurs, reptiles between grace and awe. Dinosaurs and Other Reptiles from the Mesozoic of Mexico
B. P. Kear, B. Ekrt, and J. Prokop, G. L. Georgalis. 2014. Turonian marine amniotes from the Bohemian Cretaceous Basin, Czech Republic. Geological Magazine 151(1):183-198
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R. A. Otero, S. Soto-Acuña, and A. O. Vargas, D. Rubilar-Rogers. 2014. A new postcranial skeleton of an elasmosaurid plesiosaur from the Upper Cretaceous of central Chile and reassessment of Cimoliasaurus andium Deecke. Cretaceous Research 50:318-331
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R. A. Otero, S. Soto-Acuña, and A. O. Vargas, D. Rubilar-Rogers, R. E. Yury-Yáñez, C. S. Gutstein. 2014. Additions to the diversity of elasmosaurid plesiosaurs from the Upper Cretaceous of Antarctica. Gondwana Research 26:772-784
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R. A. Otero, S. Soto-Acuña, and F. R. O.'Keefe, J. P. O.'Gorman, W. Stinnesbeck, M. E. Suárez, D. Rubilar-Rogers, C. Salazar, L. A. Quinzio-Sinn. 2014. Aristonectes quiriquinensis sp. nov., a new highly derived elasmosaurid from the upper Maastrichtian of central Chile. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 34(1):100-125
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M. J. Vavrek, B. C. Wilhelm, and E. E. Maxwell, H. C. E. Larsson. 2014. Arctic plesiosaurs from the Lower Cretaceous of Melville Island, Nunavut, Canada. Cretaceous Research 50:273-281
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R. B. J. Benson, H. F. Ketchum, and D. Naish, L. E. Turner. 2013. A new leptocleidid (Sauropterygia, Plesiosauria) from the Vectis Formation (Early Barremian–early Aptian; Early Cretaceous) of the Isle of Wight and the evolution of Leptocleididae, a controversial clade. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 11(2):233-250
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J. A. Campbell, C. J. Schroder-Adams, and J. W. Haggart, P. S. Druckenmiller, M. J. Ryan, G. D. Zazula. 2013. First records of a plesiosaurian (Reptilia: Sauropterygia) and an ichthyosaur (Reptilia: Ichthyosauria) from Yukon, Canada. Canadian Field-Naturalist 127(3):234-239
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O. Hampe. 2013. The forgotten remains of a leptocleidid plesiosaur (Sauropterygia: Plesiosauroidea) from the Early Cretaceous of Gronau (Münsterland, Westphalia, Germany). Palaeontologische Zeitschrift 87:473-491
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B. P. Kear and E. E. Maxwell. 2013. Wiman's forgotten plesiosaurs: the earliest recorded sauropterygian fossils from the High Arctic. GFF (Geologiska Foreningen)
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J. P. O'Gorman, L. Salgado, and J. Varela, A. Parras. 2013. Elasmosaurs (Sauropterygia, Plesiosauria) from the La Colonia Formation (Campanian-Maastrichtian), Argentina. Alcheringa 37(2):259-267
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J. P. O'Gorman, Z. Gasparini, and L. Salgado. 2013. Postcranial morphology of Aristonectes (Plesiosauria, Elasmosauridae) from the Upper Cretaceous of Patagonia and Antarctica. Antarctic Science 25(1):71-82
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R. A. Otero and J. P. O'Gorman. 2013. Identification of the first postcranial skeleton of Aristonectes Cabrera (Plesiosauroidea, Elasmosauridae) from the upper Maastrichtian of the south-eastern Pacific, based on a bivariate graphic analysis. Cretaceous Research 41:86-89
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A. M. Sørensen, F. Surlyk, and J. Lindgren. 2013. Food resources and habitat selection of a diverse vertebrate fauna from the upper lower Campanian of the Kristianstad Basin, southern Sweden. Cretaceous Research 42(1):85-92
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