Data for: New marine reptile fossils from the Late Jurassic of Poland with implications for vertebrate faunas palaeobiogeography

Published: 31 March 2020| Version 1 | DOI: 10.17632/gjsfn8djz3.1
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Daniel Tyborowski

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Vertebrate remains, mostly cryptodiran turtle shell fragments, pliosaur skull bones and teeth, plesiosaur vertebrae and crocodylomorph isolated teeth are described from the Upper Jurassic (Kimmeridgian) limestone beds of Krzyżanowice in the NE border of Holy Cross Mountains in Poland. The analyzed vertebrate fossils were collected during the palaeontological excavations in 2018 by authors and also in 1960s by the team from the Museum of The Earth of the Polish Academy of Sciences. All osteological remains are generally very well preserved. This interesting vertebrate bones association from the upper part of the Kimmeridgian represents fossils of animals from two different types of environments. The first contains costal reptiles like turtles and crocodylomorphs. The second one contains large pelagic animals – pliosaurids and plesiosaurids. This new vertebrate fauna from Poland has been correlated with age-equivalents from other regions of Europe and both boreal/subboreal and mediterranean palaeobiogeographical realms.

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Paleontology, Palaeogeography, Marine Reptiles, Late Jurassic, Paleobiology

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