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Aquatic adaptation, cranial kinesis, and the skull of the mosasaurine mosasaur Plotosaurus bennisoni

Aaron R. H. LeBlanc Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, T6G 2E9, Canada; Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto Mississauga, 3359 Mississauga Road, Mississauga, Ontario, L5L 1C6, Canada
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Michael W. Caldwell Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, T6G 2E9, Canada; Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, T6G 2E9, Canada
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Johan Lindgren Department of Geology, Lund University, Sölvegatan 12, SE-223 62, Lund, Sweden
Pages 349-362 | Received 03 Feb 2012, Accepted 30 Aug 2012, Published online: 05 Mar 2013

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Catherine R. C. Strong, Michael W. Caldwell, Takuya Konishi & Alessandro Palci. (2020) A new species of longirostrine plioplatecarpine mosasaur (Squamata: Mosasauridae) from the Late Cretaceous of Morocco, with a re-evaluation of the problematic taxon ‘Platecarpus’ ptychodon. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 18:21, pages 1769-1804.
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Paulina Jiménez-Huidobro, Rodrigo A. Otero, Sergio Soto-Acuña & Michael W. Caldwell. (2019) Reassessment of cf. Plotosaurus from the upper Maastrichtian of Chile, with comments on the South American distribution of halisaurine mosasaurs. Cretaceous Research 103, pages 104162.
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Aaron R H Leblanc, Sydney R Mohr & Michael W Caldwell. (2019) Insights into the anatomy and functional morphology of durophagous mosasaurines (Squamata: Mosasauridae) from a new species of Globidens from Morocco. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 186:4, pages 1026-1052.
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