Private Correspondence

• Main Authors: Taissa Rodrigues, Museu Nacional
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2000
• Subjects: Antarctica; plesiosauria; Late Cretaceous; Museu Nacional; oldest; Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Hill Island; Lachman; Lachman Crags; Ross Island; Snow Hill; Snow Hill Island; The Antarctic; Antarc*; James Ross Island
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.680.9122; http://www.polarresearch.net/index.php/polar/article/download/7265/pdf_152/

Antarctic plesiosaurs are known from the Upper Cretaceous López de Bertodano and Snow Hill Island formations (Campanian to upper Maastrich-tian), which crop out within the James Ross Basin region of the Antarctic Peninsula. Here we describe the first plesiosaur fossils from the Lachman Crags Member...