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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Published in:	Acta Palaeontologica Polonica
Main Authors:	Lene L. Delsett, Adam S. Smith, Stephen Ingrams, Simon Schneider
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Institute of Paleobiology PAS 2024-01-01
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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