Nakonanectes: smallish very complete elasmosaurid

[ZoPteryx]

Known from most of its skull and skeleton, and an adult at only a little over 5 meters in length, it is one of the youngest and most completely known elasmosaurids.  Although deeply nested within the northern hemisphere clade Styxosaurinae, its skeleton shares some features in common with the southern hemisphere Aristonectinae.

The paper, paywalled unfortunately:

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02724634.2017.1278608?journalCode=ujvp20

[CrypticPrism]

All these paleontological discoveries give me hope that 2017 won't be as much of a bad year as 2016.

[GasmaskMax]

Cool.  Nice to see a new discovery.

[Halichoeres]

That's an amazing fossil. Those laser scans! ::swoons::

[amargasaurus cazaui]

Known from most of its skull and skeleton, and an adult at only a little over 5 meters in length, it is one of the youngest and most completely known elasmosaurids.  Although deeply nested within the northern hemisphere clade Styxosaurinae, its skeleton shares some features in common with the southern hemisphere Aristonectinae.

The paper, paywalled unfortunately:

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02724634.2017.1278608?journalCode=ujvp20

See  if that helps
https://app.box.com/s/q6esio7rnp18hrjl8drff9ddejw1hlp5

[Lanthanotus]

Thanks to ZoPteryx and amargasaurus cazaui

[ZoPteryx]

See  if that helps
https://app.box.com/s/q6esio7rnp18hrjl8drff9ddejw1hlp5

Ooh, thank you! 

[Ravonium]

That's a fairly complete neck and head. Good discovery.
(Updated because I thought my original post was embarrassing at best.)

[pascosaur]

Thanks a lot