Polycotylidae is a family of plesiosaurs from the Cretaceous, a sister group to Leptocleididae. They are known as false pliosaurs. Polycotylids first...
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groups of plesiosaurs present at the end of the Cretaceous alongside Polycotylidae. The earliest elasmosaurids were mid-sized, about 6 m (20 ft). In the...
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bonneri). Unknown to her at the time, Carpenter (1996) had revised the Polycotylidae and separated Dolichorhynchops from Trinacromerum, raising the question...
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Cretaceous (Cenomanian-Turonian) Tropic Shale of southern Utah, Part 2: Polycotylidae" (PDF). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 27 (1): 41–58. doi:10...
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Polycotylus is a genus of plesiosaur within the family Polycotylidae. The type species is P. latippinis and was named by American paleontologist Edward...
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Kimmerosaurus Libonectes Mauisaurus Morturneria Thalassomedon Tuarangisaurus Polycotylidae Dolichorhynchops Edgarosaurus Manemergus Sulcusuchus Thililua Trinacromerum...
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Bonner. Unknown to her at the time, Carpenter (1996) had revised the Polycotylidae and separated Dolichorhynchops from Trinacromerum, raising the question...
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mosasaurs, plesiosaurs, represented by the families Elasmosauridae and Polycotylidae, became extinct during the event. The ichthyosaurs had disappeared from...
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recovered Serpentisuchops as a member of the Polycotylinae clade within Polycotylidae, as the sister taxon to Trinacromerum, Georgiasaurus, and Dolichorhynchops...
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indet. Enchodontidae indet. Mosasauridae indet. Plesiosauria indet. Polycotylidae indet. Testudinata indet. ?Thoracosaurinae indet. List of pterosaur-bearing...
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Cretaceous (Cenomanian-Turonian) Tropic Shale of southern Utah, part 2: polycotylidae" (PDF). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 27 (1): 41–58. doi:10...
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Gasparini, Z. (2013). "Revision of Sulcusuchus erraini (Sauropterygia, Polycotylidae) from the Upper Cretaceous of Patagonia, Argentina". Alcheringa: An...
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extinct; perhaps a plesiosaur group evolved to fill their niches: the Polycotylidae, which had short necks and peculiarly elongated heads with narrow snouts...
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Gasparini, Z., 2013, "Revision of Sulcusuchus erraini (Sauropterygia, Polycotylidae) from the Upper Cretaceous of Patagonia, Argentina", Alcheringa 37:...
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Hastanectes? Nichollssaura? Leptocleididae Brancasaurus Hastanectes? Leptocleidus Nichollssaura? Umoonasaurus? Vectocleidus Polycotylidae...
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Gasparini, Z. (2013). "Revision of Sulcusuchus erraini (Sauropterygia, Polycotylidae) from the Upper Cretaceous of Patagonia, Argentina". Alcheringa: An...
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Sauropterygia) from Harrana with a description of a new genus and species of Polycotylidae". Fossils of the Harrana Fauna and the Adjacent Areas. Eternal River...
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classifications, one short-necked and large-headed Cretaceous group, the Polycotylidae, are included under the Plesiosauroidea, rather than under the traditional...
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Hastanectes? Nichollssaura? Leptocleididae Brancasaurus Hastanectes? Leptocleidus Nichollssaura? Umoonasaurus? Vectocleidus Polycotylidae...
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Hastanectes? Nichollssaura? Leptocleididae Brancasaurus Hastanectes? Leptocleidus Nichollssaura? Umoonasaurus? Vectocleidus Polycotylidae...
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the Upper Cretaceous (Cenomanian-Turonian) Tropic Shale of southern Utah, part 2: Polycotylidae. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 27(1):41-58 v t e...
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Hastanectes? Nichollssaura? Leptocleididae Brancasaurus Hastanectes? Leptocleidus Nichollssaura? Umoonasaurus? Vectocleidus Polycotylidae...
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Gasparini, Z. (2013). "Revision of Sulcusuchus erraini (Sauropterygia, Polycotylidae) from the Upper Cretaceous of Patagonia, Argentina". Alcheringa: An...
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Hastanectes? Nichollssaura? Leptocleididae Brancasaurus Hastanectes? Leptocleidus Nichollssaura? Umoonasaurus? Vectocleidus Polycotylidae...
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Early Jurassic Rhomaleosaurus and members of the Cretaceous family, Polycotylidae. The animal had 21 teeth on either side of its maxilla and approximately...
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Gasparini, Z. (2013). "Revision of Sulcusuchus erraini (Sauropterygia, Polycotylidae) from the Upper Cretaceous of Patagonia, Argentina". Alcheringa: An...
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plesiosauroids have long necks. Later research indicates it is a member of the Polycotylidae, within the clade Occultonectia. It is distinguishable by its short...
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representatives of the Leptocleidia clade, which includes Leptocleididae and Polycotylidae, are known. Leptocleids include Leptocleidus, Umoonasaurus, and a few...
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Hastanectes? Nichollssaura? Leptocleididae Brancasaurus Hastanectes? Leptocleidus Nichollssaura? Umoonasaurus? Vectocleidus Polycotylidae...
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