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  • I know that, after Sonya left, I read "Cranial anatomy and taxonomy of Dolichorhynchops bonneri new combination, a polycotylid [Sauropterygia; Plesiosauria] from the Pierre Shale of Wyoming and South Dakota," in the latest Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.

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  • A cladistic analysis and taxonomic revision of the Plesiosauria (Reptilia: Sauropterygia).

    Archive 2006-07-01 Darren Naish 2006

  • A cladistic analysis and taxonomic revision of the Plesiosauria (Reptilia: Sauropterygia).

    Life in the Oxford Clay sea Darren Naish 2006

  • In the Crocodilia and Dinosauria the supratemporal is omitted, and in Sauropterygia it is fused with the supra - mastoid.

    Transactions of the American Philosophical Society 1771

  • Jointed elements in the Naden Harbour specimen’s ‘tail pseudo-fluke’ (their term) were interpreted by Bousfield and LeBlond as being homologous with the hindlimb elements of Mesozoic marine reptiles, and they pointed in particular to a close similarity with the hindlimb of a pachypleurosaur (pachypleurosaurs are Triassic members of Sauropterygia, the reptile clade that includes plesiosaurs).

    Archive 2006-09-01 Darren Naish 2006

  • Jointed elements in the Naden Harbour specimen’s ‘tail pseudo-fluke’ (their term) were interpreted by Bousfield and LeBlond as being homologous with the hindlimb elements of Mesozoic marine reptiles, and they pointed in particular to a close similarity with the hindlimb of a pachypleurosaur (pachypleurosaurs are Triassic members of Sauropterygia, the reptile clade that includes plesiosaurs).

    Cadborosaurus Darren Naish 2006

  • It is manifested by the combination of modern crocodilian, chelonian, and lacertian characters in the Cryptodontia and the Dicnyodontia, and by the combined lacertian and crocodilian characters in the Thecodontia and Sauropterygia. "

    Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection A Series of Essays Alfred Russel Wallace 1868

  • Sauropterygia) exhibiting pachyostosis from the Middle Jurassic of England.

    ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science 2009

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