Name - Polycotylus latipinnis Cope 1869

Life Sciences Identifier (LSID)

urn:lsid:organismnames.com:name:1207068 [metadata]

Variants and Synonyms

• Polycotylus dolichopus Williston 1906

• Polycotylus latipinnis

• Polycotylus latipinnis Cope

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Recent Publications

• A review of short-necked plesiosaurs from the Cretaceous of the Western Interior, North America.
• An examination of Plesiosauria (Diapsida: Sauropterygia) from the Niobrara Chalk (Upper Cretaceous) of central North America.
• On the cranial anatomy of the polycotylid plesiosaurs, including new material of Polycotylus latipinnis, Cope, from Alabama.
• POLYCOTYLUS LATIPINNIS COPE (PLESIOSAURIA, POLYCOTYLIDAE), A NEARLY COMPLETE SKELETON FROM THE NIOBRARA FORMATION (EARLY CAMPANIAN) OF SOUTHWESTERN SOUTH DAKOTA.
• Revision of the plesiosaur Polycotylus sopozkoi from the Southern Urals (Russia) confirms the wide distribution of Polycotylus in the Late Cretaceous of the Northern Hemisphere.

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