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CRETACEOUS RESEARCH
卷 50, 期 -, 页码 273-281出版社
ACADEMIC PRESS LTD- ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.cretres.2014.04.011
关键词
Arctic; High latitude; Juvenile; Niche partitioning; Polycotylidae; Western Interior Seaway
资金
- National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada Graduate Scholarship (CGS-D)
- Northern Scientific Training Program (NSTP)
- Polar Continental Shelf Project
- Canada Research Chair
- National Sciences and Engineering Research Council Discovery Grant [204548]
- Nunavut Research Institute
An expedition to Melville Island in Nunavut, Canada, recovered the fragmentary fossils of several plesiosaurs from non-marine deposits of the Hauterivian-Aptian Isachsen Formation. These plesiosaur fossils are some of the oldest Early Cretaceous records of the group in North America, and they likely predate the formation of a continuous Western Interior Seaway. The plesiosaurs from Melville Island appear to be primarily juveniles, and would have been living in a region that experienced at least seasonally cool temperatures. The presence of these fossils in a fluvial deposit support previous suggestions that juvenile plesiosaurs may have preferentially inhabited shallower waters rather than open marine environments. These fossils also show that polycotylid plesiosaurs were able to rapidly disperse and colonize high latitude coastal regions, as their occurrence in Arctic Canada only slightly postdates the first confirmed appearance of the group in Australia. (C) 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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