Classification
Sauropterygia
Sous-ordre
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Plesiosauria
Ordre
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Plesiosauroidea
Superfamille
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Polycotylidae
Famille
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Polycotylinae
Sous-famille
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Polycotylus
Genre
Sites de découverte 10 sites géolocalisés
Répartition
Principaux pays
Formations géologiques
Distribution temporelle
Campanien
(83.6–72.2 Ma)
3
Santonien
(85.7–83.6 Ma)
3
Coniacien
(89.8–85.7 Ma)
2
Cénomanien
(100.5–93.9 Ma)
1
Kimméridgien
(154.8–149.2 Ma)
1
Espèces (4)
Images 1
Bibliographie
Description originale
E. D. Cope. 1869. Synopsis of the Extinct Batrachia, Reptilia and Aves of North America. Part I. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, New Series 14:1-104
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Bibliographie (10)
V. M. Efimov, I. A. Meleshin, and A. V. Nikiforov. 2016. A New Species of the Plesiosaur Genus Polycotylus from the Upper Cretaceous of the Southern Urals. Paleontological Journal 50(5):494-503
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B. A. Schumacher and J. E. Martin. 2016. Polycotylus latipinnis Cope (Plesiosauria, Polycotylidae), a nearly complete skeleton from the Niobrara Formation (Early Campanian) of southwestern South Dakota. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 36(1):e1031341:1-15
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F. R. O'Keefe and L. M. Chiappe. 2011. Viviparity and K-selected life history in a Mesozoic marine Plesiosaur (Reptilia, Sauropterygia. Science 333(870):870-873
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F. R. O'Keefe. 2004. On the cranial anatomy of the polycotylid plesiosaurs, including new material of Polycotylus latipinnis, Cope, from Alabama. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 24(2):326-340
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G. W. Storrs. 1999. An examination of Plesiosauria (Diapsida: Sauropterygia) from the Niobrara Chalk (Upper Cretaceous) of Central North America. Paleontological Contributions of the University of Kansas 11:1-15
S. W. Williston. 1906. North American plesiosaurs: Elasmosaurus, Cimoliasaurus, and Polycotylus. The American Journal of Science, series 4 21:221-236
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S. W. Williston. 1905. A new armored dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous of Wyoming. Science 22(564):503
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S. W. Williston. 1903. North American plesiosaurs, part 1. Geological Series Field Museum of Natural History 3(1):1-77
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H.-E. Sauvage. 1876. Notes sur les reptiles fossiles [Notes on fossil reptiles]. Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France, 3e série 4:435-444
E. D. Cope. 1869. Synopsis of the Extinct Batrachia, Reptilia and Aves of North America. Part I. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, New Series 14:1-104
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