Name - Polycotylidae

Life Sciences Identifier (LSID)

urn:lsid:organismnames.com:name:817697 [metadata]

Variants and Synonyms

• Polycotylidae Cope 1869

• Polycotylidae Williston 1908

Reported Taxonomic Ranks

Family

Reported Taxonomic Hierarchies

Recent Publications

• Earliest North American occurrence of Polycotylidae (Sauropterygia: Plesiosauria) from the Lower Cretaceous (Albian) Clearwater Formation, Alberta, Canada.
• Mosasaur bite marks on a plesiosaur propodial from the Campanian (Late Cretaceous) of southern Sweden.
• Cretaceous marine reptiles from northwestern Hokkaido, Japan.
• Endocranial anatomy of plesiosaurians (Reptilia, Plesiosauria) from the Late Cretaceous (Turonian) of Goulmima (Southern Morocco).
• Note on a plesiosaur vertebra from the Greenhorn Formation (Late Cenomanian; Late Cretaceous), Ottawa County, Kansas.

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