Description and histology of a small-bodied elasmosaur and discription of mortuneria seyemourensis postcranium

• Main Author: Lester, Elizabeth
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Marshall Digital Scholar 2019
• Subjects: Plesiosauria. Geology; Stratigraphic > Jurassic.; Animal Sciences; Aquaculture and Fisheries; Life Sciences; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Pacific; Seymour; Seymour Island; Lopez; Lopez de Bertodano; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://mds.marshall.edu/etd/1210; https://mds.marshall.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2211&context=etd

Elasmosauridae is a monophyletic group of plesiosaurs that evolved in the Early Cretaceous and radiated to achieve a cosmopolitan distribution by the end of the Cretaceous. They were a highly successful group of deep sea predators with long necks, small heads, and stout four flippered bodies. Here w...