Definition of Polycotylids. Meaning of Polycotylids. Synonyms of Polycotylids

- a sister group to Leptocleididae. They are known as false pliosaurs. Polycotylids first appeared during the Albian stage of the Early Cretaceous, before...
- affinities of Sulcusuchus erraini and the Late Cretaceous cir****-pacific polycotylid diversity". Cretaceous Research. 140: 105339. Bibcode:2022CrRes.14005339O...
- Martinectes is an extinct genus of polycotylid plesiosaur from the Late Cretaceous Sharon Springs Formation of the United States. The genus contains a...
- (neck) vertebrae, which is an unusually high number compared to other Polycotylids, such as Dolichorhynchops, which had only 19 neck vertebrae, and Polycotylus...
- polycotyline polycotylids Trinacromerum and Dolichorhynchops. However, several features separate Mauriciosaurus from all other polycotylids, warranting...
- Plesiosaurs include two elasmosaurs (Kawanectes and Chubutinectes) and a polycotylid (Sulcusuchus). Mammals are represented by Reigitherium bunodontum and...
- It has more neck vertebrae than other polycotylids, however. Polycotylus is thought to be a basal polycotylid because it has more vertebrae in its neck...
- approximately 2.3–2.6 metres (7.5–8.5 ft) long. Adult individuals of other small polycotylids such as Dolichorhynchops and Scalamagnus were closer to 3 metres (9.8 ft)...
- hesperornithids, and plesiosaurs including elasmosaurs such as Terminonatator and polycotylids like Dolichorhynchops maintained their presence until around the end...
- Eopolycotylus is a genus of polycotylid plesiosaur known from the Cenomanian-age Tropic Shale of Utah. Timeline of plesiosaur research List of plesiosaurs...