A new polycotylid plesiosaur (Reptilia; Sauropterygia) from the Greenhorn Limestone (Upper Cretaceous; lower upper Cenomanian), Black Hills, South Dakota

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 427, Issue , 2007, Pages 133-146

  Schumacher, Bruce A ^a  

^a FORT HAYS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cenomanian; Cretaceous; Greenhorn; Plesiosaur; Polycotylid

Indexed keywords

LIME; MORPHOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY;

CENOMANIAN; CRETACEOUS; GREENHORN; PLESIOSAUR; POLYCOTYLID;

LIMESTONE;

CENOMANIAN; DENTITION; EXPANSION; LIMB; LIMESTONE; LIZARD; MORPHOLOGY; NEW TAXON; PERSISTENCE; SKELETON;

BLACK HILLS; SOUTH DAKOTA; UNITED STATES;

POLYCOTYLIDAE; REPTILIA; SAUROPTERYGIA; TRINACROMERUM;

EID: 70450273923     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2007.2427(09)     Document Type: Article

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