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1 September 2005 A NEW POLYCOTYLID PLESIOSAUR (REPTILIA: SAUROPTERYGIA) FROM THE UPPER CRETACEOUS BEARPAW FORMATION IN SASKATCHEWAN, CANADA
TAMAKI SATO
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Abstract

A new species of polycotylid, Dolichorhynchops herschelensis, is described based on a well-preserved skeleton from the Upper Cretaceous (Campanian–Maastrichtian) Bearpaw Formation of Herschel, Saskatchewan. Its small size as an adult, the sharp rise in front of the parietal crest, and the straight ilium with narrow dorsal end are diagnostic features of this taxon. This is the first polycotylid plesiosaur described from the Bearpaw Formation, deposited during the critical period when polycotylids were disappearing from the Western Interior of North America.

TAMAKI SATO "A NEW POLYCOTYLID PLESIOSAUR (REPTILIA: SAUROPTERYGIA) FROM THE UPPER CRETACEOUS BEARPAW FORMATION IN SASKATCHEWAN, CANADA," Journal of Paleontology 79(5), 969-980, (1 September 2005). https://doi.org/10.1666/0022-3360(2005)079[0969:ANPPRS]2.0.CO;2
Accepted: 1 September 2004; Published: 1 September 2005
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