Reevaluation of the holotype of Plesiosaurus (Polyptychodon) mexicanus Wieland, 1910 from the ?Upper Jurassic Mexico: A thalattosuchian, not a sauropterygian

Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Geologicas

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 517-522

  Buchy, Marie Céline ^a  

^a Museo del Desierto   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Early Cretaceous; Late Jurassic; Metriorhynchinae; Mexico; Thalattosuchia

Indexed keywords

EID: 58349090692     PISSN: 10268774     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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