Definition of Polycotylidae. Meaning of Polycotylidae. Synonyms of Polycotylidae

- Polycotylidae is a family of plesiosaurs from the Cretaceous, a sister group to Leptocleididae. They are known as false pliosaurs. Polycotylids first...
- 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...
- bonneri). Unknown to her at the time, Carpenter (1996) had revised the Polycotylidae and separated Dolichorhynchops from Trinacromerum, raising the question...
- Polycotylus is a genus of plesiosaur within the family Polycotylidae. The type species is P. latippinis and was named by American paleontologist Edward...
- mosasaurs, plesiosaurs, represented by the families Elasmosauridae and Polycotylidae, became extinct during the event. The ichthyosaurs had disappeared from...
- Kimmerosaurus Libonectes Mauisaurus Morturneria Thal****omedon Tuarangisaurus Polycotylidae Dolichorhynchops Edgarosaurus Manemergus Sulcusuchus Thililua Trinacromerum...
- Cretaceous (Cenomanian-Turonian) Tropic Shale of southern Utah, part 2: polycotylidae" (PDF). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 27 (1): 41–58. doi:10...
- 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...
- Cretaceous (Cenomanian-Turonian) Tropic Shale of southern Utah, Part 2: Polycotylidae" (PDF). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 27 (1): 41–58. doi:10...
- extinct; perhaps a plesiosaur group evolved to fill their niches: the Polycotylidae, which had short necks and peculiarly elongated heads with narrow snouts...