Marine and terrestrial animals show a mosaic of lineage extinctions and diversifications
during the J urassic–C retaceous transition. However, despite its potential importance in …

Previous attempts to resolve plesiosaurian phylogeny are reviewed and a new phylogenetic
data set of 66 taxa (67% of ingroup taxa examined directly) and 178 characters (eight new) …

There is a long tradition of indirectly inferring feeding in fossil and Recent vertebrates from
the functional morphology of bones and teeth. However, some trace fossils provide direct …

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 …

ABSTRACT A new elasmosaurid plesiosaur, Albertonectes vanderveldei, gen. et sp. nov., is
described on the basis of an almost complete postcranial skeleton from the upper …

Though the Maastrichtian Phosphates of Morocco have yielded very rich marine vertebrate
assemblages, plesiosaurs remain very scarce in these strata. The only hitherto recognized …

This paper describes a new species of elasmosaurid plesiosaur, Aristonectes
quiriquinensis, sp. nov., based on a partial skeleton recovered from upper Maastrichtian …

The holotype of Brancasaurus brancai is one of the most historically famous and
anatomically complete Early Cretaceous plesiosaurian fossils. It derived from the …

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 …

Plesiosauria is a diverse clade of marine reptiles that have been studied since the early 19th
century. However, phylogenetic relationships within the group have been contentious due to …