Revision of the short-necked Cretaceous plesiosaurians from New Zealand
Polycotylidae Cope, 1869 is a clade of short-necked plesiosaurians that achieved a cosmopolitan distribution by the Late Cretaceous. Here, the material previously referred to Polycotylidae/Pliosauridae from the Upper Cretaceous of New Zealand is reviewed, concluding that only 2.4% and 7.7% respectiv...
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ftzenodo:oai:zenodo.org:7732571 2024-09-15T17:48:35+00:00 Revision of the short-necked Cretaceous plesiosaurians from New Zealand José Patricio O'GORMAN Rodrigo A. OTERO 2023-03-14 https://doi.org/10.5852/cr-palevol2023v22a6 eng eng Zenodo https://doi.org/10.5852/cr-palevol2023v22a6 oai:zenodo.org:7732571 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode Comptes Rendus Palevol, 22(6), 77-90, (2023-03-14) Polycotylidae Maastrichtian Campanian New Zealand info:eu-repo/semantics/article 2023 ftzenodo https://doi.org/10.5852/cr-palevol2023v22a6 2024-07-27T00:18:25Z Polycotylidae Cope, 1869 is a clade of short-necked plesiosaurians that achieved a cosmopolitan distribution by the Late Cretaceous. Here, the material previously referred to Polycotylidae/Pliosauridae from the Upper Cretaceous of New Zealand is reviewed, concluding that only 2.4% and 7.7% respectively of the total plesiosaurians specimens recovered in these formations (late Campanian-early Maastrichtian Tahora Formation and Campanian-Maastrichtian Conway Formation) belong to Polycotylidae. This proportion is similar to that recorded in upper Campanian-Maastrichtian levels of the Allen, Los Alamitos and La Colonia formations, northern Patagonia (Argentina) and southernmost Chile, but contrasts with the coeval absence of polycotylids in Campanian-Santonian levels of Antarctica and central Chile. These new results improve our knowledge about the representation of Weddellian polycotylids and underline the relative scarcity of Campanian-Maastrichtian records in the Weddellia Province. Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctica Zenodo Comptes Rendus Palevol 6 |
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Polycotylidae Cope, 1869 is a clade of short-necked plesiosaurians that achieved a cosmopolitan distribution by the Late Cretaceous. Here, the material previously referred to Polycotylidae/Pliosauridae from the Upper Cretaceous of New Zealand is reviewed, concluding that only 2.4% and 7.7% respectively of the total plesiosaurians specimens recovered in these formations (late Campanian-early Maastrichtian Tahora Formation and Campanian-Maastrichtian Conway Formation) belong to Polycotylidae. This proportion is similar to that recorded in upper Campanian-Maastrichtian levels of the Allen, Los Alamitos and La Colonia formations, northern Patagonia (Argentina) and southernmost Chile, but contrasts with the coeval absence of polycotylids in Campanian-Santonian levels of Antarctica and central Chile. These new results improve our knowledge about the representation of Weddellian polycotylids and underline the relative scarcity of Campanian-Maastrichtian records in the Weddellia Province. |
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Revision of the short-necked Cretaceous plesiosaurians from New Zealand |
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Revision of the short-necked Cretaceous plesiosaurians from New Zealand |
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Revision of the short-necked Cretaceous plesiosaurians from New Zealand |
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Revision of the short-necked Cretaceous plesiosaurians from New Zealand |
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Revision of the short-necked Cretaceous plesiosaurians from New Zealand |
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revision of the short-necked cretaceous plesiosaurians from new zealand |
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