A postcranial skeleton of an elasmosaurid plesiosaur from the Maastrichtian of central Chile, with comments on the affinities of Late Cretaceous plesiosauroids from the Weddellian Biogeographic Province

Cretaceous Research

Volumn 37, Issue , 2012, Pages 89-99

  Otero, Rodrigo A ^a   Soto Acuña, Sergio ^a,b   Rubilar Rogers, David ^a  

^a MUSEO NACIONAL DE HISTORIA NATURAL   (Chile)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

Aristonectinae; Elasmosauridae; Late Maastrichtian; Weddellian Biogeographic Province

Indexed keywords

MAASTRICHTIAN; MORPHOLOGY; PALEOBIOGEOGRAPHY; PHYLOGENY; REPTILE; SKELETON;

CHILE;

ARISTONECTES; ARISTONECTES PARVIDENS; ELASMOSAURIDAE; PLESIOSAURIA; SAUROPTERYGIA; WEDDELLIA;

EID: 84861845716     PISSN: 01956671     EISSN: 1095998X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cretres.2012.03.010     Document Type: Article

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