Email this article A new species of the plesiosaur genus Polycotylus from the Upper Cretaceous of the southern Urals
- Authors: Efimov V.M.1, Meleshin I.A.1, Nikiforov A.V.2
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Affiliations:
- Undory Paleontological Museum, village of Undory
- Club of Young Geologists
- Issue: Vol 50, No 5 (2016)
- Pages: 494-503
- Section: Article
- URL: https://journals.rcsi.science/0031-0301/article/view/166500
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1134/S0031030116050051
- ID: 166500
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Abstract
The most complete specimen of the plesiosaur genus Polycotylus from the Upper Cretaceous of the southern Urals is described. This specimen has much in common with the species P. latipinnis described from North America, but differs in the limb structure and cranial bones, so that it is assigned to a separate species, Polycotylus sopozkoi sp. nov.
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V. M. Efimov
Undory Paleontological Museum, village of Undory
Author for correspondence.
Email: upm2002@mail.ru
Russian Federation, Ulyanovsk Region, 433312
I. A. Meleshin
Undory Paleontological Museum, village of Undory
Email: geolclub@mail.ru
Russian Federation, Ulyanovsk Region, 433312
A. V. Nikiforov
Club of Young Geologists
Author for correspondence.
Email: geolclub@mail.ru
Russian Federation, Orenburg Region
