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A postcranial skeleton of an elasmosaurid plesiosaur from the Maastrichtian of central Chile, with comments on the affinities of Late Cretaceous plesiosauroids from the Weddellian Biogeographic Province
(2012)
An almost complete postcranial skeleton recovered from late Maastrichtian beds of central Chile, which can be confidently referred to the clade Elasmosauridae (Sauropterygia: Plesiosauroidea), is described. The material ...
Redescription of Tuarangisaurus keyesi (Sauropterygia; Elasmosauridae), a key species from the uppermost Cretaceous of the Weddellian Province: Internal skull anatomy and phylogenetic position
(Academic Press, 2017)
© 2016 Elsevier Ltd The systematics of elasmosaurids are not well resolved partially because of the scarcity of well-preserved skull material. Among Weddellian elasmosaurids, one exception to this is the holotype of ...
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
(Servicio Nacional Geología Minerva, 2015)
Several Upper Cretaceous plesiosaur specimens recovered from southernmost Chile are described here. These were collected from upper levels of the Dorotea Formation exposed on three different localities (Sierra Baguales, ...
A new elasmosaurid specimen from the upper Maastrichtian of Antarctica: new evidence of a monophyletic group of Weddellian elasmosaurids
(Taylor & Francis, 2017-04-21)
A new fossil elasmosaurid specimen, MLP 15-I-7-48, from the upper Maastrichtian Sandwich Bluff Member of the López de Bertodano Formation, Vega Island, Archipelago James Ross, Antarctica, is described. The fossil is a ...
A new elasmosaurid plesiosaur from the lower Maastrichtian of North Canterbury, New Zealand
(Academic Press Ltd-elsevier Science Ltd, 2014-03)
A postcranial specimen from the lower Maastrichtian levels of the Conway Formation, Middle Waipara River, North Canterbury, New Zealand shows clear elasmosaurid affinities, based on the articular faces, with a ventral ...
A new elasmosaurid plesiosaur from the lower Maastrichtian of North Canterbury, New Zealand
(Academic Press, 2014)
A postcranial specimen from the lower Maastrichtian levels of the Conway Formation, Middle Waipara River, North Canterbury, New Zealand shows clear elasmosaurid affinities, based on the articular faces, with a ventral ...
A juvenile Tuarangisaurus keyesi Wiffen and Moisley 1986 (Plesiosauria, Elasmosauridae) from the upper cretaceous of New Zealand, with remarks on its skull ontogeny
(Elsevier, 2018)
This paper presents the detailed description of a remarkable skull and partial postcranial skeleton of a very juvenile elasmosaurid referred to Tuarangisaurus keyesi (CD 427), from the upper Campanian-lower Maastrichtian ...
Identification of the notothenioid sister lineage illuminates the biogeographic history of an Antarctic adaptive radiation
(Biomed Central Ltd, 2015-06-11)
Background: Antarctic notothenioids are an impressive adaptive radiation. While they share recent common ancestry with several species-depauperate lineages that exhibit a relictual distribution in areas peripheral to the ...
Reappraisal of tuarangisaurus? Cabazai (Elasmosauridae, Plesiosauria) from the Upper Maastrichtian of northern Patagonia, Argentina
(Academic Press Ltd - Elsevier Science Ltd, 2014)