The first non-aristonectine elasmosaurid (Sauropterygia; Plesiosauria) cranial material from Antarctica: New data on the evolution of the elasmosaurid basicranium and palate

• Published in: Cretaceous Research
• Main Authors: O'gorman, Jose Patricio, Coria, Rodolfo Anibal, Reguero, Marcelo Alfredo, Santillana, Sergio, Mörs, Thomas, Cardenas, Magali
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Academic Press Ltd - Elsevier Science Ltd
• Subjects: CAPE LAMB MEMBER; ELASMOSAURIDAE; PLESIOSAURIA; SNOWS HILL ISLAND FORMATION; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.5; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1; Argentina; Suecia; Vega Island; Hill Island; Snow Hill Island; Cape Lamb; Coria; Funes; Snow Hill; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11336/83625

Elasmosaurids are a monophyletic group of cosmopolitan plesiosaurs with extremely long necks. Although abundant elasmosaurid material has been collected from the Upper Cretaceous of Antarctica, skull material is extremely rare. Here, new elasmosaurid cranial material from the lower Maastrichtian lev...