Palæos:		Unit 220: Lepidosauromorpha
The Vertebrates		References

Lepidosauromorpha: References

EUREPTILIA
|--ARCHOSAUROMORPHA
|
Lepidosauromorpha
|--Sauropterygia
|  |--Pachypleurosauridae
|  `--+--Nothosauridae
|     `--Plesiosauria
|        |--Pliosauroidea
|        `--Plesiosauroidea
|           |--Elasmosauridae
|           `--Cryptocleidoidea
`--Lepidosauriformes
   |--RHYNCHOCEPHALIA
   `--SQUAMATA

Brown, DS (1981), The Upper Jurassic Plesiosauroidea (Reptilia) and a  review of the phylogeny and classification of the Plesiosauria. Bull. Brit. Mus. Nat. Hist., Geol. 35: 253-347. Colymbosaurus, Cryptoclididae, Elasmosauridae, Microcleidus, Muraenosaurus, Plesiosauroidea, Pliosauroidea

Carpenter, K (1997), Comparative cranial anatomy of two North American Cretaceous plesiosaurs, in JM Callaway & EL Nicholls (eds.), Ancient Marine Reptiles Academic Press, pp. 191-216.  Liopleurodon, Peloneustes.

Carroll, RL (1988), Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution, WH Freeman & Co., 698 pp. Lepidosauriformes, Sauropterygia. 

Carroll, RL (1988a), Late Paleozoic and early Mesozoic lepidosauromorphs and their relation to lizard ancestry, in R Estes & G Pregill (eds.), Phylogenetic Relationships of the Lizard Families, Stanford Univ. Press, pp. 99-118. Lepidosauriformes

Carroll, RL & Gaskill, P (1985), The nothosaur Pachypleurosaurus and the origin of plesiosaurs. Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. Lond. B 309: 343-393. Anarosaurus, Neusticosaurus, Nothosauria, Nothosauridae, Nothosaurus, Plesiosauria, Sauropterygia, Simosaurus. 

Clark, JM & RR Hernandez (1994), A new burrowing diapsid from the Jurassic La Boca formation of Tamaulipas, Mexico, J. Vert. Paleontol., 14: 180-195. Lepidosauriformes.

Cox, B, RJG Savage, B Gardiner & D Dixon (1988), Collins Illustrated Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Animals.  Collins Publishers Aus. 312 pp. Pliosauridae.

Cruickshank, ARI (1994), A juvenile plesiosaur (Reptilia: Plesiosauria) from the Lower Lias (Hettangian: Lower Jurassic) of Lyme Regis, England: a pliosaurid-plesiosaurid intermediate? Zool. J. Linn. Soc. 112: 151-178.  Eurycleidus.

Cruickshank, ARI & JA Long (1997), A new species of pliosaurid reptile from the Early Cretaceous Birdsong sandstone of Western Australia.  Recs. W. Aus. Mus. 18.  Eurycleidus.

Cruickshank, ARI, P Small & M Taylor (1991), Dorsal nostrils and hydrodynamically driven underwater olfaction in plesiosaurs. Nature 352: 62-64. Rhomaleosaurus.

deRicqlès, A (1989), Les mécanismes hétérochroniques dans le retour des tétrapodes au milieu aquatique, in Colloque International du CNRS : Ontogénèse et Evolution, Dijon, septembre 1986, pp. 171-178. Pachypleurosauridae.

Frey, E & Reiss, J (1982), Considerations concerning plesiosaur locomotion. N. Jb. Geol. Palaont. Abh. 164: 188-192. Plesiosauria

Gaudant, J & FJ Meunier (1996), Observation d'un cas de pachyostose chez un Clupeidae fossile du Miocène terminal de l'ouest Algérien, Sardina ? crassa (Sauvage, 1873). Cybium 20: 169-83. Pachypleurosauridae

Gauthier, J, K deQuieroz, & R Estes (1988), A phylogenetic analysis of Lepidosauromorpha, in R Estes & G Pregill (eds.), Phylogenetic Relationships of the Lizard Families, Stanford U. Press, pp. 15-98. Lepidosauriformes

Godfrey, SJ (1984), Plesiosaur sub-aqueous locomotion: a reappraisal. N. Jb. Geol. Palaont. Abh. 11: 661-672.  Plesiosauria

Hampe, O (1992), Ein grosswuechsiger pliosauride (Reptilia: Plesiosauria) aus der Unterkreide (oberes Aptium) von Kolumbien. Courier Forsch. Senckenberg. 145: 1-32.  Kronosaurus. 

Holmes R, Y-N Cheng & X-C Wu (2008), New information on the skull of Keichousaurus hui (Reptilia: Sauropterygia) with comments on sauropterygian interrelationships. J. Vert. Paleont. 28: 76-84.

Molnar, RE (1991), Fossil reptiles of Australia, in P Vickers-Rich, JM Monaghan, RF Baird & TH Rich (eds.), Vertebrate Paleontology of Australia. Pioneer Design Studio (Melbourne), pp.605-689.  Cimoliasaurus 

O'Keefe, FR, O Rieppel & PM Sander (1999), Shape disassociation and inferred heterochrony in a clade of pachypleurosaurs (Reptilia, Sauropterygia).  Paleobiology 25: 504-517. Neusticosaurus, Pachypleurosauridae. 

Rieppel, O (1989), A new pachypleurosaur (Reptilia: Sauopterygia) from the Middle Triassic of Monte San Giorgio, Switzerland.  Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. Lond. B 323: 1-73. Anarosaurus, Dactylosaurus, Keichousaurus, Lepidosauromorpha, Neusticosaurus, Nothosauria, Pachypleurosauridae, Serpianosaurus, Simosaurus. 

Rieppel, O (1995), The pachypleurosaur Neusticosaurus (Reptilia, Sauropterygia) from the Middle Triassic of Perledo, Northern Italy.  N. Jahrb. Geol. Pal. Mon. 1995: 205-216.  Neusticosaurus, Pachypleurosauridae, Serpianosaurus.   

Rieppel, O (1997), Sauropterygia: Introduction, in JM Callaway & EL Nicholls (eds.), Ancient Marine Reptiles Academic Press, pp. 107-119. Eusauropterygia

Rieppel, O & H Hagdorn (1997), Paleobiogeography of Middle Triassic Sauropterygia in Central and Western Europe, in Callaway, JM & EL Nicholls (eds), Ancient Marine Reptiles, Academic Press, pp. 121-44. Pachypleurosauridae.

Rieppel, O & L Kebang (1995), Pachypleurosaurs (Reptilia, Sauropterygia) from the Lower Muschelkalk, and a review of the Pachypleurosauroidea. Fieldiana Geol. N.S. 32: 1-44.  Anarosaurus, Dactylosaurus, Pachypleurosauridae.

Rieppel, O & R Wild (1996), A revision of the genus Nothosaurus (Reptilia: Sauropterygia) from the Germanic Triassic, with comments on the status of Conchiosaurus clavatus. Fieldiana Geol. No.1479, 82 pp.  Nothosauridae

Robinson, JA (1975), The locomotion of plesiosaurs. N. Jb. Geol. Palaont. Abh. 149: 286-332. Plesiosauria

Robinson, JA (1977), Intercorporal force transmission in plesiosaurs. N. Jb. Geol. Palaont. Abh. 153: 88-128. Plesiosauria. 

Sachs, S (2005), Tuarangisaurus australis sp. nov. (Plesiosauria: Elasmosauridae) from the Lower Cretaceous of northeastern Queensland, with additional notes on the phylogeny of the Elasmosauridae. Mem. Queensl. Mus., 50: 425-440. Elasmosauridae.

Sander, PM (1989), The pachypleurosaurids (Reptilia: Nothosauria) from the Middle Triassic of Monte San Giorgio (Switzerland) with the description of a new species.  Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. Lond. B 325: 561-666.  Neusticosaurus, Serpianosaurus.   

Storrs, GW (1997), Morphological and taxonomic clarification of the genus Plesiosaurus, in JM Callaway & EL Nicholls (eds.), Ancient Marine Reptiles Academic Press, pp. 145-190. Plesiosaurus.

Storrs, GW & MA Taylor (1996), Cranial anatomy of a new plesiosaur genus from the lowermost Lias (Rhaetian/Hettangian) of Street, Somerset, England.  J. Vert. Paleontol. 16: 403-420. Eurycleidus.

Tarsitano, S & Riess, J (1982), Plesiosaur locomotion -- underwater flight versus rowing. N. Jb. Geol. Palaont. Abh. 164: 193-194. Plesiosauria.

Taylor, MA (1981), Plesiosaur rigging and ballasting.  Nature 290: 628-9 Plesiosauria, Plesiosauroidea.

Taylor, MA (1986), Lifestyle of plesiosaurs.  Nature 319: 179. Plesiosauria.

Taylor, MA (1992), Functional anatomy of the head of a large aquatic predator Rhomaleosaurus zetlandicus (Plesiosauria: Reptilia) from the Toarcian (Lower  Jurassic) of Yorkshire, England. Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. Lond. B 335: 247-280.  Rhomaleosaurus.

Taylor, MA & ARI Cruickshank (1993), A plesiosaur from the Linksfield Erratic (Rhaetian, Upper Triassic) near Elgin, Morayshire. Scot. J. Geol. 29: 191-196. Eretmosaurus.

Welles, SP (1962), A new species of elasmosaur from the Aptian of Columbia, and a review of the Cretaceous plesiosaurs. Univ. Calif. Publ. in Geol. Sci. 46: 54.  Brachauchenius.

Zhang, Y (1985), A new plesiosaur from Middle Jurassic of Sichuan Basin. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 23: 235-240. Yuzhoupliosaurus