Plesiosaur remains from the Jurassic-Cretaceous Purbeck Limestone Group of southern England

Proceedings of the Geologists' Association

Volumn 120, Issue 2-3, 2009, Pages 121-125

  Kear, Benjamin P ^a,b   Milner, Andrew R ^c   Barrett, Paul M ^c  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

England; Jurassic Cretaceous boundary; Plesiosauria; Purbeck series

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; FOSSIL RECORD; JURASSIC-CRETACEOUS BOUNDARY; LIMESTONE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; REPTILE; SKELETAL REMAINS; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; TITHONIAN;

DORSET [ENGLAND]; ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; ISLE OF PURBECK; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

ANIMALIA; PLESIOSAURIA;

EID: 71649108023     PISSN: 00167878     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pgeola.2009.06.001     Document Type: Article

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