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1 BIBLIOGRAPHIE SUR LES SAUROPTERYGIENS Bakker, R. T Plesiosaur extinction cycles- Events that mark the beginning, middle and end of the Cretaceous. In Caldwell, W. G. E. and Kaufman, E. G. (eds.). Evolution of the Western Interior Basin: Geological Association of Canada. Special Paper 39, Bardet, N.; Godefroit, P.; and Sciau, J A new elasmosaurid plesiosaur from the Lower Jurassic of Southern France. Palaeontology, 42, (5), Benton, M. J The reign of the reptiles. Kingfisher. London. 143pp. Brown, D. S The English Upper Jurassic Plesiosauroidea (Reptilia) and a review of the phylogeny and classification of the Plesiosauria. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History): Geology, 35, (4), Brown, D. S. and Cruickshank, A. R. I The skull of the Callovian plesiosaur Cryptoclidus eurymerus and the sauropterygian cheek. Palaeontology, 37, (4), Caldwell, M. W. 1997a. Limb osteology and ossification patterns in Cryptoclidus (Reptilia: Plesiosauroidea) with a review of sauropterygian limbs. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 17, (2), Caldwell, M. W. 1997b. Modified perichondral ossification and the evolution of paddle-like limbs in Ichthyosaurs and Plesiosaurs. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 17, (3), Carrol, R. L Plesiosaur ancestors from the upper permian of Madagascar. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B, 293, Carroll, R, L The emergence of marine reptiles in the Late Paleozoic and Early Mesozoic. Third Symposium on Mesozoic Terrestrial Ecosystems, Short Papers Carroll, R. L. and Gaskill, P The nothosaur Pachypleurosaurus and the origin of plesiosaurs. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B, 309, Carroll, R. L Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution. Freeman. New York. 698pp. Carpenter, K Comparative cranial anatomy of two North American Cretaceous Plesiosaurs In Callaway, J. M and Nicholls, E. L. (eds.). Ancient Marine Reptiles. Academic press. London. 501pp. Chatterjee, S. and Small, B, J New plesiosaurs from the Upper Cretaceous of Antarctica. In Crame, J, A. (ed.) Origins and evolution of the Antarctic Biota. Geological Society Special Publications, 47, Page 1 sur 5

2 Collin, R. and and Janis, C. M Morphological constraints on tetrapod feeding mechanisms: why were there no suspension-feeding marine reptiles In Callaway, J. M and Nicholls, E. L. (eds.). Ancient Marine Reptiles. Academic press. London. 501pp. Cruickshank, A. R. I.; Small, P. G.; and Taylor, M. A Dorsal nostrils and hydrodynamically driven underwater olfaction in plesiosaurs. Nature,352, Cruickshank, A. R. I A Juvenile plesiosaur (Plesiosauria: Reptilia) from the Lower Lias (Hettangian: Lower Jurassic) of Lyme Regis, England: a pliosauroidplesiosauroid intermediate? Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 112, Cruickshank, A, R, I.; Cranial anatomy of the Lower Jurassic pliosaur Rhomaleosaurus megacephalus (Stutchbury) (Reptilia: Plesiosauria). Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B, 343, Cruickshank, A. R. I., Martill, D. M., Noe, L. F A pliosaur (Reptilia, Sauropterygia) exhibiting pachyostosis from the Middle Jurassic of England. Journal of the Geological Society, London,153, Cruickshank, A, R, I A Pistosaurus-like sauropterygian from the Rhaeto- Hettangian of England. Mercian Geologist, 14, (1) Cruickshank, A. R. I. And Fordice, R. E A new marine reptile (Sauropterygia) from New Zealand: further evidence for a late Cretaceous Austral radiation of cryptoclidid plesiosaurs. Palaeontology, 45, (3), Dawn, A Fossil marine reptiles of the Peterborough brick pits. Mercian Geologist, 14, (2), Druckenmiller, P. S Osteology of a new plesiosaur from the Lower Cretaceous (Albian) Thermopolis Shale of Montana. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 22, (1), Evans, M A new reconstruction of the skull of the Callovian elasmosaurid plesiosaur Muraenosaurus leedsii Seely. Mercian Geologist, 14, (4), Forrest, R A possible early elasmosaurian plesiosaur from the Triassic/Jurassic boundary of Nottinghamshire. Mercian Geologist, 14, (3), Gasparini, Z A new plesiosaur from the Bajocian of the Neuquen Basin, Argentina. Palaeontology, 40, (1), Gasparini, Z.; Casadio, S.; Fernández, M. and Salgado, L Marine reptiles from the Late Cretaceous of northern Patagonia. Journal of South American Earth Sciences, 14, Gasparini, Z.; Bardet, N. and Iturralde-Vincent, M A new cryptoclidid plesiosaur from the Oxfordian (Late Jurassic) of Cuba. Geobios, 35, Page 2 sur 5

3 Halstead, L. B. Liopleurodon rossicus (Novozhilov) - a pliosaur from the Lower Volgian of the Moscow Basin. Palaeontology, 14, p Halstead, L. B Plesiosaur locomotion. Journal of the geological society London, 146. Pages Hutchinson, H. N A model of Peloneustes philarchus. Geological Magazine, Vol?, Lucas, S. G. and Reynolds, R. E Putative Palaeocene plesiosaurs from Cajon Pass, California, U. S. A. Cretaceous Research, 14, Maisch, M. W. and Rucklin, M Cranial osteology of the sauropterygian Plesiosaurus brachyptertgius from the lower Toarchian of Germany. Palaeontology, 43, (1), Martill, D. M. and Hudson, J. D. (eds.) Fossils of the Oxford Clay. The Palaeontological Association. Dorset Press, Dorset. 286 pp. Martill, D. M Pliosaur stomach content from the Oxford Clay. Mercian Geologist, 13, (1), Martill, D. M. et al The trophic structure of the biota of the Peterborough Member, Oxford Clay Formation (Jurassic), UK. Journal of the geological society London, 151, Massare, J. A Tooth morphology and prey preference of Mesozoic marine reptiles. Jounal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 7, (2), Massare, J. A Swimming capabilities of Mesozoic marine reptiles: Implications for method of predation. Palaeobiology, 14, (2), O'Keefe, F. R. 2001a. A cladistic analysis and taxonomic revision of the Plesiosauria (Reptilia: Sauropterygia). Acta Zoologica Fennica, 213, O'Keefe, F. R. 2001b. Ecomorphology of plesiosaur flipper geometry. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 14, O'Keefe, F. R The evolution of plesiosaur and pliosaur morphotypes in the Plesiosauria (Reptilia: Sauropterygia). Palaeobiology, 28, (1), Rieppel, O Status of the Pachypleurosauroid Psilotrachelosaurus toeplitschi Nopcsa (reptilia, Sauropterygia) from the Middle Triassic of Austria. Fieldiana: geology, N.S., 27, Rieppel, O The status of the sauropterygian reptile Nothosaurus juvenilis from the middle Triassic of Germany. Palaeontology, 37, (4), Page 3 sur 5

4 Rieppel, O Part 2: Sauropterygia. Introduction In Callaway, J. M and Nicholls, E.L. (eds). Ancient Marine Reptiles. Academic press. London. 501pp. Rieppel, O Corosaurus alcovensis Case and the phylogenetic interrelastionships of Triassic stem-group Sauropterygia. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 124, Rieppel, O and Wernberg, R A new species of the sauropterygian Cymatosaurus from the Lower Muschelkalk of Thuringia, Germany. Palaeontology, 41, (4), Rieppel, O Phylogeny and Palaeobiogeography of Triassic Sauropterygia: problems solved and unreseolved. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 153, Rieppel, O Feeding mechanics in Triassic stem-group sauropterygians: the anatomy of a successful invasion of Mesozoic seas. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 135, Robinson, J, A The locomotion of plesiosaurs. N. Jb. Geol. Paläont. Abh. 149, Sander, P. M.; Rieppel, O. C. and Bucher, H A new Pistosaurid (reptilia from the Middle Triassic of Nevada and its implications for the origin of the plesiosaurs. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 17, (3), Sato, T. and Tanabe, K Cretaceous plesiosaurs ate ammonites. Nature, 394, Storrs, G. W Anatomy and relationships of Corosaurus alcovensis (Diapsida: Sauropterygia) and the Triassic Alcova Limestone of Wyoming. Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History, 44, Storrs, G. W Function and phylogeny in sauropterygian (Diapsida) evolution. American Journal of Science. 293-A Storrs, G. W. and Taylor, M. A Cranial anatomy of a new plesiosaur genus from the lowermost Lias (Rhaetian/Hettangian) of Street, Somerset, England. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 16, (3), Storrs, G. W Morphological and taxonomic clarification of the genus Plesiosaurus In Callaway, J. M and Nicholls, E. L. (eds.). Ancient Marine Reptiles. Academic press. London. 501pp. Sues, H. D Postcranial skeleton of Pistosaurus and interrelationships of the Sauropterygia (Diapsida). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 90, Tarlo, L. B Stretosaurus gen. Nov., a giant pliosaur from the Kimmeridge Clay. Palaeontology, 2, Page 4 sur 5

5 Tarlo, B A review of the Upper Jurassic pliosaurs. British Museum (Natural History), Geology, 4: Taylor, M. A Sea-saurians for sceptics. Nature, 338, Taylor, M. A Functional anatomy of the head of the large aquatic predator Rhomaleosaurus zetlandicus (Plesiosauria: Reptilia) from the Toarcian (Lower Jurassic) of Yorkshire, England. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B, 335, Taylor, M. A. and Cruickshank, A. R. I Cranial anatomy and functional morphology of Pliosaurus brachyspondylus (Reptilia: Plesiosauria) from the Upper Jurassuc of Westbury, Wiltshire. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B, 341, Taylor, M. A; Norman, D. B. and Cruickshank. A. R. I The remains of an ornithischian dinosaur in a pliosaur from the Kimmeridgian of England. Palaeontology, 36, (2), Taylor, M. A The plesiosaur's birthpalce: the Bristol Institution and its contribution to vertebrate palaeontology. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 112, Taylor, M. A Before the dinosaur: the historical significance of the fossil marine reptiles. In Callaway, J. M and Nicholls, E.L. (eds). Ancient Marine Reptiles. Academic press. London. 501pp. Young Chung-chien On the new nothosaurs from Hupeh and Kweichou, China. Vertebrata Palasiatica, 9, (4), Page 5 sur 5

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