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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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recognized as a
junior synonym of the Elasmosauridae.
Along with the
Polycotylidae,
elasmosaurids represent the few
plesiosauroids that
lived until the...
- classifications, one short-necked and large-headed
Cretaceous group, the
Polycotylidae, are
included under the Plesiosauroidea,
rather than
under the traditional...
- 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 Thal****omedon
Tuarangisaurus Polycotylidae Dolichorhynchops Edgarosaurus Manemergus Sulcusuchus Thililua Trinacromerum...
- extinct;
perhaps a
plesiosaur group evolved to fill
their niches: the
Polycotylidae,
which had
short necks and
peculiarly elongated heads with
narrow snouts...
- Bonner.
Unknown to her at the time,
Carpenter (1996) had
revised the
Polycotylidae and
separated Dolichorhynchops from Trinacromerum,
raising the question...
- Gasparini, Z. (2013). "Revision of
Sulcusuchus erraini (Sauropterygia,
Polycotylidae) from the
Upper Cretaceous of Patagonia, Argentina". Alcheringa: An...
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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...
