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  2. Carroll R.L. 1988. Vertebrate paleontology and evolution. Freeman N.Y.
  3. Roger B. J. Benson, Mark Evans and Patrick S. Druckenmiller (2012). Lalueza-Fox, Carles (biên tập). “High Diversity, Low Disparity and Small Body Size in Plesiosaurs (Reptilia, Sauropterygia) from the Triassic–Jurassic Boundary”. PLoS ONE. 7 (3): e31838. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0031838. PMC 3306369. PMID 22438869.
  4. Hilary F. Ketchum and Roger B. J. Benson (2011). “A new pliosaurid (Sauropterygia, Plesiosauria) from the Oxford Clay Formation (Middle Jurassic, Callovian) of England: evidence for a gracile, longirostrine grade of Early-Middle Jurassic pliosaurids”. Special Papers in Palaeontology. 86: 109–129. doi:10.1111/j.1475-4983.2011.01083.x.
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  6. 1 2 Benson, R. B. J.; Druckenmiller, P. S. (2013). “Faunal turnover of marine tetrapods during the Jurassic-Cretaceous transition”. Biological Reviews: n/a. doi:10.1111/brv.12038.
  7. Other classifications are possible: O'Keefe F.R. 2001. A cladistic analysis and taxonomic revision of the Plesiosauria (Reptilia: Sauropterygia); Acta Zool. Fennica 213: 1-63.
  8. Watson D.M.S. 1951. Palaeontology and modern biology. Yale, CT.
  9. Watson D.M.S. 1958. Studies on fossil vertebrates. London.
  10. Alexander, R. McNeill 1989. Dynamics of dinosaurs and other extinct giants. Columbia N.Y. p137
  11. BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Plesiosaur bottom-feeding shown
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  13. Hiller N. Mannering A.A. Jones C.M. Cruickshank A.R.I. 2005. The nature of Mauisaurus haasti Hector, 1874 (Reptilia: Plesiosauria). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 25:588-601.
  14. Everhart, M.J. 2005. "Gastroliths associated with plesiosaur remains in the Sharon Springs Member (Late Cretaceous) of the Pierre Shale, Western Kansas" on-line, updated from article in Kansas Acad. Sci. Trans. 103(1-2):58-69