Wealden pliosauromorph

3.10.2017

Our paper on a pliosauromorph plesiosaurian jaw from the 'Wealden facies' deposits of Germany has been released.

We describe an incomplete plesiosaurian mandible from the non-marine ‘Wealden facies’ deposits of the Bückeberg Group. The specimen was found in the 1960s in a quarry near Kathrinhagen in Lower Saxony (northwestern Germany). It was, for many years, on display at the Geological Museum of the University of Cologne and had initially been identified as a crocodilian jaw. Our investigation showed that it in fact is part of a plesiosaurian mandible that resembles the lower jaws of rhomaleosaurids and the pliosaurid Simolestes.

The specimen will soon be on display again at the Geomuseum in Cologne.

Co-authors of the study are Jahn J. Hornung, Jens Lallensack and Benjamin Kear

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