226
Views
50
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Original Articles

Limb osteology and ossification patterns in Cryptoclidus (Reptilia: Plesiosauroidea) with a review of sauropterygian limbs

Pages 295-307 | Received 10 Jan 1996, Accepted 10 Sep 1996, Published online: 24 Aug 2010

Keep up to date with the latest research on this topic with citation updates for this article.

Read on this site (13)

Marta S. Fernández, Lisandro Campos, Erin E. Maxwell & Alberto C. Garrido. (2021) Catutosaurus gaspariniae , gen. et sp. nov. (Ichthyosauria, Thunnosauria) of the Upper Jurassic of Patagonia and the evolution of the ophthalmosaurids. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 41:1.
Read now
Aubrey J. Roberts, Patrick S. Druckenmiller, Lene L. Delsett & Jørn H. Hurum. (2017) Osteology and relationships of Colymbosaurus Seeley, 1874, based on new material of C. svalbardensis from the Slottsmøya Member, Agardhfjellet Formation of central Spitsbergen. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 37:1.
Read now
Roger B J. Benson, Mark Evans & Michael A. Taylor. (2015) The anatomy of Stratesaurus (Reptilia, Plesiosauria) from the lowermost Jurassic of Somerset, United Kingdom. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 35:4.
Read now
RodrigoA. Otero, Sergio Soto-Acuña, Frank Robin O'Keefe, JoséP. O’Gorman, Wolfgang Stinnesbeck, MarioE. Suárez, David Rubilar-Rogers, Christian Salazar & Luis Arturo Quinzio-Sinn. (2014) Aristonectes quiriquinensis, sp. nov., a new highly derived elasmosaurid from the upper Maastrichtian of central Chile. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 34:1, pages 100-125.
Read now
Tai Kubo, MarkT. Mitchell & DonaldM. Henderson. (2012) Albertonectes vanderveldei, a new elasmosaur (Reptilia, Sauropterygia) from the Upper Cretaceous of Alberta. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 32:3, pages 557-572.
Read now
RogerB. J. Benson, KarlT. Bates, MarkR. Johnson & PhilipJ. Withers. (2011) Cranial anatomy of Thalassiodracon hawkinsii (Reptilia, Plesiosauria) from the Early Jurassic of Somerset, United Kingdom. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 31:3, pages 562-574.
Read now
Peggy Vincent. (2011) A re-examination of Hauffiosaurus zanoni, a pliosauroid from the Toarcian (Early Jurassic) of Germany. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 31:2, pages 340-351.
Read now
Xiao-Chun Wu, Yen-Nien Cheng, Chun Li, Li-Jun Zhao & Tamaki Sato. (2011) New information on Wumengosaurus delicatomandibularis Jiang et al., 2008 (Diapsida: Sauropterygia), with a revision of the osteology and phylogeny of the taxon. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 31:1, pages 70-83.
Read now
Olivier Rieppel, P. Martin Sander & Glenn W. Storrs. (2002) The skull of the pistosaur Augustasaurus from the Middle Triassic of northwestern Nevada. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 22:3, pages 577-592.
Read now

Articles from other publishers (37)

N.G. Zverkov, D.V. Grigoriev, I.A. Meleshin & A.V. Nikiforov. (2024) Revision of the plesiosaur Polycotylus sopozkoi from the Southern Urals (Russia) confirms the wide distribution of Polycotylus in the Late Cretaceous of the Northern Hemisphere. Cretaceous Research 160, pages 105879.
Crossref
Lars P.J. Barten, Eric W.A. Mulder & John W.M. Jagt. (2024) A plesiosaurian autopodial element (Plesiosauria indet.) with remarkable articular subchondral surfaces from the Maastrichtian type area (south-east Netherlands). Netherlands Journal of Geosciences 103.
Crossref
Ricardo Araújo & Adam S. Smith. (2023) Recognising and quantifying the evolution of skeletal paedomorphosis in Plesiosauria. Fossil Record 26:1, pages 85-101.
Crossref
Anna Krahl, Adam S. Smith & Ingmar Werneburg. (2022) Historically transposed flipper pairs in a mounted plesiosaurian skeleton. PalZ 96:4, pages 805-813.
Crossref
Anna Krahl, Andreas Lipphaus, P. Martin Sander & Ulrich Witzel. (2022) Determination of muscle strength and function in plesiosaur limbs: finite element structural analyses of Cryptoclidus eurymerus humerus and femur . PeerJ 10, pages e13342.
Crossref
Mélani Berrocal-Casero, Juan Alberto Pérez-Valera, Vanda F. Dos Santos & Manuel Segura. (2022) Nothosaur tracks from the Middle Triassic of Spain suggest a global distribution for distinctive swim track assemblages. Lethaia 55:1, pages 1-11.
Crossref
Leslie F. Noè & Marcela Gómez-Pérez. (2022) Giant pliosaurids (Sauropterygia; Plesiosauria) from the Lower Cretaceous peri-Gondwanan seas of Colombia and Australia. Cretaceous Research 132, pages 105122.
Crossref
Anna Krahl & Ulrich Witzel. (2021) Foreflipper and hindflipper muscle reconstructions of Cryptoclidus eurymerus in comparison to functional analogues: introduction of a myological mechanism for flipper twisting . PeerJ 9, pages e12537.
Crossref
Anna Krahl. (2021) The locomotory apparatus and paraxial swimming in fossil and living marine reptiles: comparing Nothosauroidea, Plesiosauria, and Chelonioidea. PalZ 95:3, pages 483-501.
Crossref
Christopher T. Griffin, Michelle R. StockerCaitlin CollearyCandice M. StefanicEmily J. LessnerMitchell RieglerKiersten FormosoKrista KoellerSterling J. Nesbitt. (2020) Assessing ontogenetic maturity in extinct saurian reptiles. Biological Reviews 96:2, pages 470-525.
Crossref
María Eurídice Páramo-Fonseca, Javier García-Guerrero, Cristian David Benavides-Cabra, Santiago Padilla-Bernal & Antonio José Castañeda-Gómez. (2021) A benchmark specimen of Muiscasaurus catheti from the upper Aptian of Villa de Leiva, Colombia: New anatomical features and phylogenetic implications. Cretaceous Research 119, pages 104685.
Crossref
Marta S. Fernández, Evangelos Vlachos, Mónica R. Buono, Lucia Alzugaray, Lisandro Campos, Juliana Sterli, Yanina Herrera & Florencia Paolucci. (2020) Fingers zipped up or baby mittens? Two main tetrapod strategies to return to the sea. Biology Letters 16:8, pages 20200281.
Crossref
Maxim S. Arkhangelsky, Nikolay G. Zverkov, Mikhail A. Rogov, Ilya M. Stenshin & Evgeniya M. Baykina. (2019) Colymbosaurines from the Upper Jurassic of European Russia and their implication for palaeobiogeography of marine reptiles. Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments 100:1, pages 197-218.
Crossref
Mark C. DeBlois & Ryosuke Motani. (2019) Flipper bone distribution reveals flexible trailing edge in underwater flying marine tetrapods. Journal of Morphology 280:6, pages 908-924.
Crossref
Pablo Nuñez Demarco, Melitta Meneghel, Michel Laurin & Graciela Piñeiro. (2018) Was Mesosaurus a Fully Aquatic Reptile?. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 6.
Crossref
Peggy Vincent, Rémi Allemand, Paul D. Taylor, Guillaume Suan & Erin E. Maxwell. (2017) New insights on the systematics, palaeoecology and palaeobiology of a plesiosaurian with soft tissue preservation from the Toarcian of Holzmaden, Germany. The Science of Nature 104:5-6.
Crossref
José P. O'Gorman. (2016) Reappraisal of Fresnosaurus drescheri (Plesiosauria; Elasmosauridae) from the Maastrichtian Moreno Formation, California, USA. Cretaceous Research 68, pages 9-20.
Crossref
. 2015. Bones and Cartilage. Bones and Cartilage 709 867 .
Rodrigo A. Otero, Sergio Soto-Acuña, Alexander O. Vargas, David Rubilar-Rogers, Roberto E. Yury-Yáñez & Carolina S. Gutstein. (2014) Additions to the diversity of elasmosaurid plesiosaurs from the Upper Cretaceous of Antarctica. Gondwana Research 26:2, pages 772-784.
Crossref
Erin E. Maxwell. (2012) Unraveling the Influences of Soft‐Tissue Flipper Development on Skeletal Variation Using an Extinct Taxon. Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution 318:7, pages 545-554.
Crossref
JUDYTH SASSOON, LESLIE F. NOÈ & MICHAEL J. BENTON. (2012) Cranial anatomy, taxonomic implications and palaeopathology of an Upper Jurassic Pliosaur (Reptilia: Sauropterygia) from Westbury, Wiltshire, UK. Palaeontology 55:4, pages 743-773.
Crossref
Roger B. J. Benson & Richard J. Butler. (2022) Uncovering the diversification history of marine tetrapods: ecology influences the effect of geological sampling biases. Geological Society, London, Special Publications 358:1, pages 191-208.
Crossref
Tamaki Sato, Yen-Nien Cheng, Xiao-Chun Wu & Chun Li. (2010) Osteology of Yunguisaurus Cheng et al ., 2006 (Reptilia; Sauropterygia), a Triassic Pistosauroid from China . Paleontological Research 14:3, pages 179-195.
Crossref
ADAM. S. SMITH & PEGGY VINCENT. (2010) A new genus of pliosaur (Reptilia: Sauropterygia) from the Lower Jurassic of Holzmaden, Germany. Palaeontology 53:5, pages 1049-1063.
Crossref
Patrick S. Druckenmiller & Anthony P. Russell. (2015) Earliest North American occurrence of Polycotylidae (Sauropterygia: Plesiosauria) from the Lower Cretaceous (Albian) Clearwater Formation, Alberta, Canada. Journal of Paleontology 83:6, pages 981-989.
Crossref
Nadia B. Fröbisch. (2008) Ossification patterns in the tetrapod limb – conservation and divergence from morphogenetic events. Biological Reviews 83:4, pages 571-600.
Crossref
Tamaki SatoXiao-chun Wu. (2008) A new Jurassic pliosaur from Melville Island, Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 45:3, pages 303-320.
Crossref
FRANZISKA GROßMANN. (2007) THE TAXONOMIC AND PHYLOGENETIC POSITION OF THE PLESIOSAUROIDEA FROM THE LOWER JURASSIC POSIDONIA SHALE OF SOUTH‐WEST GERMANY. Palaeontology 50:3, pages 545-564.
Crossref
BENJAMIN P. KEAR. (2007) A JUVENILE PLIOSAUROID PLESIOSAUR (REPTILIA: SAUROPTERYGIA) FROM THE LOWER CRETACEOUS OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA. Journal of Paleontology 81:1, pages 154-162.
Crossref
F. Robin O'Keefe & Matthew T. Carrano. (2005) Correlated trends in the evolution of the plesiosaur locomotor system. Paleobiology 31:4, pages 656.
Crossref
. 2005. Bones and Cartilage. Bones and Cartilage 559 736 .
Tim J. Fedak & Brian K. Hall. (2004) Perspectives on hyperphalangy: patterns and processes. Journal of Anatomy 204:3, pages 151-163.
Crossref
Susan D. Dawson. (2003) Patterns of ossification in the manus of the harbor porpoise ( Phocoena phocoena ): Hyperphalangy and delta‐shaped bones . Journal of Morphology 258:2, pages 200-206.
Crossref
Lars Bejder & Brian K. Hall. (2002) Limbs in whales and limblessness in other vertebrates: mechanisms of evolutionary and developmental transformation and loss. Evolution & Development 4:6, pages 445-458.
Crossref
Michael W. Caldwell. (2002) From fins to limbs to fins: Limb evolution in fossil marine reptiles. American Journal of Medical Genetics 112:3, pages 236-249.
Crossref
Marta FernándezZulma Gasparini. (2000) Salt glands in a Tithonian metriorhynchid crocodyliform and their physiological significance. Lethaia 33:4, pages 269-276.
Crossref
CHRISTIAN PETER KLINGENBERG. (2007) Heterochrony and allometry: the analysis of evolutionary change in ontogeny. Biological Reviews 73:1, pages 79-123.
Crossref

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.