Polycotylidae is a family of plesiosaurs from the Cretaceous, a sister group to Leptocleididae. They are known as false pliosaurs. Polycotylids first...
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groups of plesiosaurs present at the end of the Cretaceous alongside Polycotylidae. The earliest elasmosaurids were mid-sized, about 6 m (20 ft). In the...
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bonneri). Unknown to her at the time, Carpenter (1996) had revised the Polycotylidae and separated Dolichorhynchops from Trinacromerum, raising the question...
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Cretaceous (Cenomanian-Turonian) Tropic Shale of southern Utah, Part 2: Polycotylidae" (PDF). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 27 (1): 41–58. doi:10...
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Polycotylus is a genus of plesiosaur within the family Polycotylidae. The type species is P. latippinis and was named by American paleontologist Edward...
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Sauropterygia) from Harrana with a description of a new genus and species of Polycotylidae". Fossils of the Harrana Fauna and the Adjacent Areas. Eternal River...
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Gasparini, Z. (2013). "Revision of Sulcusuchus erraini (Sauropterygia, Polycotylidae) from the Upper Cretaceous of Patagonia, Argentina". Alcheringa: An...
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bonneri). Unknown to her at the time, Carpenter (1996) had revised the Polycotylidae and separated Dolichorhynchops from Trinacromerum, raising the question...
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mosasaurs, plesiosaurs, represented by the families Elasmosauridae and Polycotylidae, became extinct during the event. The ichthyosaurs had disappeared from...
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Kimmerosaurus Libonectes Mauisaurus Morturneria Thalassomedon Tuarangisaurus Polycotylidae Dolichorhynchops Edgarosaurus Manemergus Sulcusuchus Thililua Trinacromerum...
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