Name - Elasmosauridae Cope 1869

Life Sciences Identifier (LSID)

urn:lsid:organismnames.com:name:1269964 [metadata]

Variants and Synonyms

• Elasmosauridae

• Elasmosauridae Cope

• Cimoliasauridae Delair 1959

Reported Taxonomic Ranks

Family

Reported Taxonomic Hierarchies

Recent Publications

• Oldest Elasmosauridae (Plesiosauria) in East Asia from the Upper Cretaceous Goshoura Group, Shishijima Island, Southwestern Japan.
• A NEW PLESIOSAUR (REPTILIA: SAUROPTERYGIA) SPECIMEN FROM THE UPPER CRETACEOUS OF WEST ANTARCTICA, WITH COMMENTS ON THE ONTOGENY AND MORPHOLOGICAL DIVERSITY OF THE ELASMOSAURID PELVIC GIRDLE.
• A non-aristonectine plesiosaur from Antarctica reveals new data on the mandibular symphysis of elasmosaurids.
• Washed ashore - New elasmosaurid specimens (Plesiosauria: Sauropterygia) from the Late Cretaceous of Colorado and Kansas and their bearing on elasmosaurid lineages of the Western Interior Seaway.
• A new elasmosaurid (Plesiosauria: Sauropterygia) from the Lopez de Bertodano Formation: new data on the evolution of the aristonectine morphology.

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