Boreal waterways: An Early Cretaceous plesiosaur from Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canadian Arctic and its palaeobiogeography

Boreal waterways: An Early Cretaceous plesiosaur from Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canadian Arctic and its palaeobiogeography

A plesiosaur specimen collected from Ellesmere Island (Nunavut, Arctic Canada) by Danish geologist Johannes Troelsen in 1952 is described for the first time. The plesiosaur is late Berriasian to early Valanginian in age based on palynostratigraphy. The specimen is the only plesiosaur known from the...

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Main Authors: Lene L. Delsett, Adam S. Smith, Stephen Ingrams, Simon Schneider
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Institute of Paleobiology PAS 2024-01-01
Series:Acta Palaeontologica Polonica
Subjects:
plesiosauria
colymbosaurus
palaeobiogeography
early cretaceous
sverdrup basin
ellesmere island
nunavut
canada
Online Access:https://www.app.pan.pl/archive/published/app69/app011482024.pdf
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