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Cranial anatomy of Thalassiodracon hawkinsii (Reptilia, Plesiosauria) from the Early Jurassic of Somerset, United Kingdom

Roger B. J. Benson Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EQ, United Kingdom
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Karl T. Bates Department of Musculoskeletal Biology, Institute of Aging and Chronic Disease, University of Liverpool, Sherrington Buildings, Ashton Street, Liverpool, L69 3GE, United Kingdom
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Mark R. Johnson Materials Science Centre, University of Manchester, Grosvenor Street, Manchester, M1 7HS, United Kingdom
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Philip J. Withers Materials Science Centre, University of Manchester, Grosvenor Street, Manchester, M1 7HS, United Kingdom
Pages 562-574 | Received 11 Sep 2010, Accepted 21 Feb 2011, Published online: 09 May 2011

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Nikolay G. Zverkov, Alexander O. Averianov & Evgeny V. Popov. (2018) Basicranium of an elasmosaurid plesiosaur from the Campanian of European Russia. Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology 42:4, pages 528-542.
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Rémi Allemand, Nathalie Bardet, Alexandra Houssaye & Peggy Vincent. (2017) Virtual reexamination of a plesiosaurian specimen (Reptilia, Plesiosauria) from the Late Cretaceous (Turonian) of Goulmima, Morocco, using computed tomography. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 37:3.
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Danielle J. Serratos, Patrick Druckenmiller & Roger B. J. Benson. (2017) A new elasmosaurid (sauropterygia, plesiosauria) from the bearpaw shale (late cretaceous, maastrichtian) of montana demonstrates multiple evolutionary reductions of neck length within elasmosauridae. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 37:2.
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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.
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Adam S. Smith & Roger B.J. Benson. (2014) Osteology of Rhomaleosaurus Thorntoni (Sauropterygia: Rhomaleosauridae) from the Lower Jurassic (Toarcian) of Northamptonshire, England. Monographs of the Palaeontographical Society 168:642, pages 1-40.
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Roger B. J. Benson & Timothy Bowdler. (2014) Anatomy of Colymbosaurus megadeirus (Reptilia, Plesiosauria) from the Kimmeridge Clay Formation of the U.K., and high diversity among Late Jurassic plesiosauroids. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 34:5, pages 1053-1071.
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Roger B. J. Benson, Hilary F. Ketchum, Darren Naish & Langan E. Turner. (2013) A new leptocleidid (Sauropterygia, Plesiosauria) from the Vectis Formation (Early Barremian–early Aptian; Early Cretaceous) of the Isle of Wight and the evolution of Leptocleididae, a controversial clade. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 11:2, pages 233-250.
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Peggy Vincent & RogerB. J. Benson. (2012) Anningasaura, a basal plesiosaurian (Reptilia, Plesiosauria) from the Lower Jurassic of Lyme Regis, United Kingdom. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 32:5, pages 1049-1063.
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Peggy Vincent & Glenn W. Storrs. (2019) Lindwurmia, a new genus of Plesiosauria (Reptilia: Sauropterygia) from the earliest Jurassic of Halberstadt, northwest Germany. The Science of Nature 106:1-2.
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PEGGY VINCENT, ROBERT WEIS, GUY KRONZ & DOMINIQUE DELSATE. (2017) Microcleidus melusinae , a new plesiosaurian (Reptilia, Plesiosauria) from the Toarcian of Luxembourg . Geological Magazine 156:1, pages 99-116.
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José P. O'Gorman, Rodolfo A. Coria, Marcelo Reguero, Sergio Santillana, Thomas Mörs & Magalí Cárdenas. (2018) The first non-aristonectine elasmosaurid (Sauropterygia; Plesiosauria) cranial material from Antarctica: New data on the evolution of the elasmosaurid basicranium and palate. Cretaceous Research 89, pages 248-263.
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Rémi Allemand, Nathalie Bardet, Alexandra Houssaye & Peggy Vincent. (2018) New plesiosaurian specimens (Reptilia, Plesiosauria) from the Upper Cretaceous (Turonian) of Goulmima (Southern Morocco). Cretaceous Research 82, pages 83-98.
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Sven Sachs, Johan Lindgren & Mikael Siversson. (2015) A partial plesiosaurian braincase from the Upper Cretaceous of Sweden. Geological Society, London, Special Publications 434:1, pages 293-301.
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Judyth Sassoon, Davide Foffa & Ryan Marek. (2015) Dental ontogeny and replacement in Pliosauridae. Royal Society Open Science 2:11, pages 150384.
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Mark T. Young, Lorna Steel, Davide Foffa, Trevor Price, Darren Naish & Jonathan P. Tennant. (2014) Marine tethysuchian crocodyliform from the ?Aptian-Albian (Lower Cretaceous) of the Isle of Wight, UK. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 113:3, pages 854-871.
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Roger B. J. BensonPatrick S. Druckenmiller. (2014) Faunal turnover of marine tetrapods during the Jurassic-Cretaceous transition. Biological Reviews 89:1, pages 1-23.
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Oliver Hampe. (2013) The forgotten remains of a leptocleidid plesiosaur (Sauropterygia: Plesiosauroidea) from the Early Cretaceous of Gronau (Münsterland, Westphalia, Germany). Paläontologische Zeitschrift 87:4, pages 473-491.
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David Brown, Peggy Vincent & Nathalie Bardet. (2015) Osteological redescription of the skull of Microcleidus homalospondylus (Sauropterygia, Plesiosauria) from the Lower Jurassic of England . Journal of Paleontology 87:4, pages 537-549.
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Roger B. J. Benson, Mark Evans & Patrick S. Druckenmiller. (2012) High Diversity, Low Disparity and Small Body Size in Plesiosaurs (Reptilia, Sauropterygia) from the Triassic–Jurassic Boundary. PLoS ONE 7:3, pages e31838.
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