New data on one of the first plesiosaur (Reptilia, Sauropterygia) skeletons recovered from Antarctica, with comments on the dorsal and sacral regions of elasmosaurids

• Main Authors: O’Gorman, José P., Aspromonte, Franco, Reguero, Marcelo
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Taylor & Francis 2021
• Subjects: Genetics; FOS Biological sciences; Molecular Biology; Pharmacology; 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified; FOS Earth and related environmental sciences; 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified; FOS Chemical sciences; Ecology; 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified; Cancer; Science Policy; Plant Biology; Computational Biology; 25 de Mayo; Argentina; Argentino; San Martín; Antarc*; Antarctica; Instituto Antártico Argentino
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.16583912.v2; https://tandf.figshare.com/articles/dataset/New_data_on_one_of_the_first_plesiosaur_Reptilia_Sauropterygia_skeletons_recovered_from_Antarctica_with_comments_on_the_dorsal_sacral_and_regions_of_elasmosaurids/16583912/2

Elasmosaurids are among the most frequently recorded marine reptile fossils from the Campanian–Maastrichtian strata of Antarctica. Here, we describe one of the earliest quarried specimens, MLP 82-I-28-1, which is identified as a non-aristonectine elasmosaurid and phylogenetically nested within Wedde...