Name - Polycotylidae Cope 1869

Life Sciences Identifier (LSID)

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Variants and Synonyms

• Polycotylidae

Reported Taxonomic Ranks

Family

Reported Taxonomic Hierarchies

Recent Publications

• First record of Polycotylidae (Sauropterygia, Plesiosauria) from the Upper Cretaceous of Antarctica.
• The evolutionary history of polycotylid plesiosaurians.
• A Turonian polycotylid plesiosaur (Reptilia: Sauropterygia) from Obira Town, Hokkaido, and its biostratigraphic and paleoecological significance.
• The cranial osteology of two specimens of Dolichorhynchops bonneri (Plesiosauria, Polycotylidae) from the Campanian of South Dakota, and a cladistic analysis of the Polycotylidae.
• Polycotylidae (Sauropterygia, Plesiosauria) from the La Colonia Formation, Patagonia, Argentina: Phylogenetic affinities of Sulcusuchus erraini and the Late Cretaceous circum-pacific polycotylid diversity.

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