A new plesiosaurian from the Jurassic–Cretaceous transitional interval of the Slottsmøya Member (Volgian), with insights into the cranial anatomy of cryptoclidids using computed tomography

• Published in: PeerJ
• Main Authors: Aubrey Jane Roberts, Patrick S. Druckenmiller, Benoit Cordonnier, Lene L. Delsett, Jørn H. Hurum
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: PeerJ Inc. 2020
• Subjects: Plesiosaur; Jurassic; Cryptoclidid; Computed tomography; Phylogenetics; Svalbard; Medicine; R; Biology (General); QH301-705.5; Slottsmøya; Spitsbergen
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8652; https://doaj.org/article/077edf75aa624e028b76c40dc3aa69c9

Cryptoclidids are a major clade of plesiosauromorph plesiosaurians best known from the Middle—Late Jurassic, but little is known regarding their turnover into the Early Cretaceous. Of the known cryptoclidid genera, most preserve only a limited amount of cranial material and of these Cryptoclidus eur...