Polycotylidae
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Polycotylidae is a family of plesiosaurs from the Cretaceous. Polycotylids first appeared during the Albian stage of the Early Cretaceous, before becoming abundant and widespread during the early Late Cretaceous. Several species survived into the final stage of the Cretaceous, the Maastrichtian around 72-66 million years ago.[3] The possible latest surviving member Rarosaurus from the late Maastrichtian is more likely a crocodylomorph.[4]
With their short necks and large elongated heads, they resemble the pliosaurs, but phylogenetic studies indicate that they are plesiosauroids, being most closely related to Leptocleididae and more distantly to Elasmosauridae. They have been found worldwide, with specimens reported from New Zealand, Australia, Japan, Morocco, the US, Canada, Eastern Europe, and South America.[5]
Phylogeny
Cladogram after Albright, Gillette and Titus (2007).[6]
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Cladogram after Ketchum and Benson (2010).[7]
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Below is a cladogram of polycotylid relationships from Ketchum & Benson, 2011.[8]
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References
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.V. Fischer; R. B. J. Benson; P. S. Druckenmiller; H. F. Ketchum; N. Bardet (2018). "The evolutionary history of polycotylid plesiosaurians". Royal Society Open Science. 5 (3) 172177. Bibcode:2018RSOS....572177F. doi:10.1098/rsos.172177. PMC 5882735. PMID 29657811.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Clark, Robert O.; O'Keefe, F. Robin; Slack, Sara E. (2023-12-24). "A new genus of small polycotylid plesiosaur from the Upper Cretaceous of the Western Interior Seaway and a clarification of the genus Dolichorhynchops". Cretaceous Research. 157 105812. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2023.105812. ISSN 0195-6671.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Fischer, V.; Benson, R. B. J.; Druckenmiller, P. S.; Ketchum, H. F.; Bardet, N. (March 2018). "The evolutionary history of polycotylid plesiosaurians". Royal Society Open Science. 5 (3) 172177. Bibcode:2018RSOS....572177F. doi:10.1098/rsos.172177. ISSN 2054-5703. PMC 5882735. PMID 29657811.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Alhalabi, W. A.; Bardet, N.; Sachs, S.; Kear, B. P.; Joude, I. B.; Yazbek, M. K.; Godoy, P. L.; Langer, M. C. (2024). "Recovering lost time in Syria: New Late Cretaceous (Coniacian-Santonian) elasmosaurid remains from the Palmyrides mountain chain". Cretaceous Research. 159. 105871. Bibcode:2024CrRes.15905871A. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2024.105871.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Druckenmiller, Patrick S. & Russell, Anthony P. (2009). "Earliest North American Occurrence Of Polycotylidae (Sauropterygia: Plesiosauria) From The Lower Cretaceous (Albian) Clearwater Formation, Alberta, Canada" (PDF). Journal of Paleontology. 83 (6): 361–392. Bibcode:2009JPal...83..981D. doi:10.1666/09-014.1. S2CID 130695434. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-06.
- ^ Albright III, L. B., Gillette, D. D., and Titus, A. L., 2007b. Plesiosaurs from the Upper Cretaceous (Cenomanian-Turonian) Tropic Shale of southern Utah, part 2: polycotylidae Script error: No such module "webarchive".. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v. 27, n. 1, p. 41-58.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Ketchum, H. F. & Benson, R. B. J. (2010). "Global interrelationships of Plesiosauria (Reptilia, Sauropterygia) and the pivotal role of taxon sampling in determining the outcome of phylogenetic analyses". Biological Reviews. 85 (2): 361–392. doi:10.1111/j.1469-185X.2009.00107.x. PMID 20002391. S2CID 12193439.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Hilary F. Ketchum; Roger B. J. Benson (2011). "A new pliosaurid (Sauropterygia, Plesiosauria) from the Oxford Clay Formation (Middle Jurassic, Callovian) of England: evidence for a gracile, longirostrine grade of Early-Middle Jurassic pliosaurids". Special Papers in Palaeontology. 86: 109–129.
External links
- Palæos: The Vertebrates, Lepidosauromorpha: Cryptocleidoidea: Tricleidia
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