%0 Journal Article
%T Reevaluation of the holotype of Plesiosaurus (Polyptychodon) mexicanus Wieland, 1910 from the ?Upper Jurassic of Mexico: a thalattosuchian, not a sauropterygian
%A Buchy
%A Marie-C¨¦line
%J Revista mexicana de ciencias geol¨®gicas
%D 2008
%I Universidad Nacional Aut¨®noma de M¨¦xico
%X the holotype of the first sauropterygian described from mexico, plesiosaurus mexicanus wieland, 1910, was recently rediscovered and is here described and discussed for the first time in almost a century. the holotype specimen belongs to an indeterminate metriorhynchine crocodyliform. doubts remain as to the stratigraphic origin of the specimen, whether upper jurassic or lower cretaceous. it adds a specimen to the recently recognised wealth of the mexican gulf in thalattosuchians.
%K thalattosuchia
%K metriorhynchinae
%K late jurassic
%K early cretaceous
%K mexico.
%U http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1026-87742008000300010&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en