A CRETACEOUS PLESIOSAUR REMAIN (REPTILIA, SAUROPTERYGIA) FROM THE ARGILLE VARICOLORI OF VARZI (PAVIA, LOMBARDY, NORTHERN ITALY) by SIVIO RENESTO

Subjects: “…Plesiosauria (Reptilia, Sauropterygia)…”
Get full text

Estimating the evolutionary rates in mosasauroids and plesiosaurs: discussion of niche occupation in Late Cretaceous seas by Daniel Madzia, Andrea Cau

Subjects: Get full text

Quantitative histological models suggest endothermy in plesiosaurs by Corinna V. Fleischle, Tanja Wintrich, P. Martin Sander

Subjects: Get full text

Neck mobility in the Jurassic plesiosaur Cryptoclidus eurymerus: finite element analysis as a new approach to understanding the cervical skeleton in fossil vertebrates by Tanja Wintrich, René Jonas, Hans-Joachim Wilke, Lars Schmitz, P. Martin Sander

Subjects: Get full text

Foramina in plesiosaur cervical centra indicate a specialized vascular system by T. Wintrich, M. Scaal, P. M. Sander

“…The sauropterygian clade Plesiosauria arose in the Late Triassic and survived to the very end of the Cretaceous. …”
Get full text

Oldest record of Machimosaurini (Thalattosuchia, Teleosauroidea): teeth and scavenging traces from the Middle Jurassic (Bajocian) of Switzerland by Torsten M. Scheyer, Michela M. Johnson, Dylan Bastiaans, Feiko Miedema, Erin E. Maxwell, Christian Klug

“…The Jurassic period was a time of major diversification for Mesozoic marine reptiles, including Ichthyosauria, Plesiosauria and thalattosuchian Crocodylomorpha. The latter originated in the Early Jurassic and thrived during the Late Jurassic. …”
Get full text

A NEW SAUROPTERYGIAN REPTILE WITH PLESIOSAURIAN AFFINITY FROM THE LATE TRIASSIC OF ITALY by FABIO M. DALLA VECCHIA

“…It is probably a pistosaurid or, alternatively, could represent a different clade closer to Plesiosauria, occurring in the gap between the late Anisian pistosaurids and the earliest Rhaetian plesiosaurs.…”
Get full text

Reappraisal of Europe’s most complete Early Cretaceous plesiosaurian: Brancasaurus brancai Wegner, 1914 from the “Wealden facies” of Germany by Sven Sachs, Jahn J. Hornung, Benjamin P. Kear

“…This non-confirmable data has, however, proven crucial for determining the relationships of B. brancai within Plesiosauria: either as an early long-necked elasmosaurid, or a member of the controversial Early Cretaceous leptocleidid radiation. …”
Get full text

Determination of muscle strength and function in plesiosaur limbs: finite element structural analyses of Cryptoclidus eurymerus humerus and femur by Anna Krahl, Andreas Lipphaus, P. Martin Sander, Ulrich Witzel

“…Background The Plesiosauria (Sauropterygia) are secondary marine diapsids. …”
Get full text