#polycotilid

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Serpentisuchops pfisterae

Late Cretaceous, North America

A new genus and species! I had the honor of illustrating this ancient marine reptile for the descriptive scientific paper "A long-snouted and long-necked polycotylid plesiosaur from the Late Cretaceous of North America" by Walter Scott Persons IV, Hallie P. Street, and Amanda Kelley, which is published in the journal iScience from Cell Press.

Read the paper at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2022.105033

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