• DOI:10.1660/0022-8443-111.3.203
Corpus ID: 86751839

On the skull of a pliosaur (Plesiosauria; Pliosauridae) from the Upper Cretaceous (Early Turonian) of the North American Western Interior

@inproceedings{Schumacher2008OnTS,
  title={On the skull of a pliosaur (Plesiosauria; Pliosauridae) from the Upper Cretaceous (Early Turonian) of the North American Western Interior},
  author={B. Schumacher},
  year={2008}
}

B. Schumacher

Published 2008

Geology

Abstract A partial pliosaur skull reveals anatomical features poorly known for Plesiosauria. The specimen lacks recorded contextual information, however preservational character and nannofossil analysis (earliest Turonian) suggests origination from the upper Greenhorn Limestone. The vomers bifurcate near their posterior termination, and are overlapped by long, slender extensions of the anterior pterygoids. The latter character has only recently been noted and may be variously developed in many… CONTINUE READING

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