LINKS - PLESIOSAURS (A-Z)

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http://dml.cmnh.org/ Archives of the Dinosaur Mailing List: Some interesting discussions on various aspects of the Sauropterygia.

http://www.alphalink.com.au/~dannj/marine.htm Australian Ancient Marine Reptiles: A really nice Australian marine reptile site, mostly plesiosaurs.The site is mirrored here: http://www.geocities.com/dannsdinosaurs/marine.html

http://www.samuseum.sa.gov.au/fossils/ Australian Plesiosaur Project: includes video clips of Ben Kear describing the plesiosaur project. Clips of the process of making a (really good) life-size plesiosaur model.

http://www.palaeos.com/Vertebrates/Units/220Lepidosauromorpha/220.400.html Classification: an extensive review of Plesiosauria and more inclusive is… http://www.palaeos.com/Vertebrates/Units/220Lepidosauromorpha/220.100.html#Sauropterygia Classification (Sauropterygia): an extensive review.

http://www.fmnh.helsinki.fi/users/haaramo/Metazoa/Deuterostoma/Chordata/Reptilia/Sauropterygia/Sauropterygia.htm Classifiaction: Detailed classification of the Sauropterygia with associated references.

http://www.dinosaurnews.org/ Dinosaurnews. Recent news stories in vertebrate palaeontology including plesiosaurs.

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/dinosaurs/dinos/Plesiosaur.shtml Enchanted Learning: This is a generally good site for children or real beginners.

http://www.paynestudios.com/movies_ples.htm John Payne Studios - a movie of an animate 3D plesiosaur skeleton reconstruction. Shows what a plesiosaur neck couldn't do.

http://www.kronosauruskorner.com.au Kronosaurus Korner: A nice looking museum in Richmond, Queensland, Australia with many plesiosaur features. Nice picture of the Richmond plesiosaur, an unnamed polycotylid.

http://marenostrum.org/paleontologia/liopleurodon/index.htm Liopleurodon - terror of the sea. Illustrations and digital images

http://www.uni-mainz.de/~fastm000/Literatur/Sauropterygia.html List of references for Sauropterygia subjects.

http://www.toyen.uio.no/palmus/galleri/montre/english/m_marineogler_e.htm Norway: marine reptiles in the paleontologisk museum, Norway.

http://www.oceansofkansas.com/ Oceans of Kansas: From the quick site index on the main page there are links to ‘Something about plesiosaurs’ and ‘Something about pliosaurs’; well-illustrated accounts of Late Cretaceous American plesiosaurians. There is also a page devoted to the mounted skeleton of the elasmosaur Styxosaurus snowii in the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, again, well illustrated and also an interesting an article on fact and fiction in plesiosaurs.

http://www.dinosauria.com/dml/names/ples.html#A Plesiosauria Translation and Pronounciation Guide: A Comprehensive run-down of all known plesiosaur genera by Ben Creisler. Recommended.

http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Hangar/9020/plesiosaur/ Plesiosaur FAQS: Frequently asked questions answered

http://www.plesiosaur.com/ The Plesiosaur Site: This recommended site covers all aspects of the Plesiosauria. The section on taxonomy is especially extensive, and the Forum very useful - http://www.plesiosaur.com/forum/

http://www.gla.ac.uk/~gxha14/collections/plio.html Pliosaur material from the vertebrate collections of the Hunterian Museum: this is a full list. Specimens are mostly from the Oxford Clay, Peterborough. (Leeds Collection)

http://www.whitbymuseum.org.uk/d18/grp16/wm851s.htm propinquus: on the species of Rhomaleosaurus.

http://www.qm.qld.gov.au/features/dinosaurs/marine.asp Queensland Mueum Explorer: on various Australian plesiosaurs

www.isgs.uiuc.edu/dinos/de_4/5c5d3fa.htm Sauropterygia: general overview of major sauropterygian clades

http://www.uni-tuebingen.de/uni/e16/gpi/sammlung/museum/pal.html Tubingen University - Photos of the plesiosaurs and other fossils on display.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dinosaurs/fact_files/sea/liopleurodon.shtml Walking With Dinosaurs: lovely animations and video clips of Liopleurodon and Cryptoclidus. Unfortunately removed .

http://www.uni-muenster.de/Rektorat/museum/d2m_gm12.htm Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster - On the one and only specimen of the early elasmosaurid Brancasaurus, with image.

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A fun site giving up-to-date information on recent theories concerning the diet of prehistoric reptiles. The author is a nice chap too, a really great guy.

My companion site to the Plesio-Store: for all your dinosaur needs!

A virtual collection of dinosaur toys, replicas, and models

For discussing dinosaur toys and replicas

Palaeontologia Electronica - the electronic palaeontology journal

Not sauropterygian based but with information on Leptocleidus: http://www.geocities.com/dinowight/leptocleidus.html. This is a great informative site including a description of every Isle of Wight (Southern UK) dinosaur genus.

The Skeptics Guide to the Universe is an excellent weekly podcast covering all manner of science and pseudoscience topics. I highly recommend it.

This is a new service aimed at school children across the UK to help them get involved and interested in science. Collectively we are a group of professional biologists and biology workers (ecologists, museum curators, science writers and the like) who have got together to answer your questions about biology, evolution, palaeontology, fossils, conservation and the environment. Ask us a question!

An active forum for fossil collectors and enthusiasts to discuss fossils, and find help IDing their recent discoveries.