@article {NJG:9528459,
	title = {A new elasmosaurid from the early Maastrichtian of Angola and the implications of girdle morphology on swimming style in plesiosaurs},
	journal = {Netherlands Journal of Geosciences},
	volume = {FirstView},
	year = {2015},
	note = {<p>n/a</p>
},
	month = {1},
	pages = {1{\textendash}12},
	abstract = {<p>ABSTRACT We report here a new elasmosaurid from the early Maastrichtian at Bentiaba, southern Angola. Phylogenetic analysis places the new taxon as the sister taxon to Styxosaurus snowii, and that clade as the sister of a clade composed of (Hydrotherosaurus alexandrae (Libonectes morgani + Elasmosaurus platyurus)). The new taxon has a reduced dorsal blade of the scapula, a feature unique amongst elasmosaurids, but convergent with cryptoclidid plesiosaurs, and indicates a longitudinal protraction-retraction limb cycle rowing style with simple pitch rotation at the glenohumeral articulation. Morphometric phylogenetic analysis of the coracoids of 40 eosauropterygian taxa suggests that there was a broad range of swimming styles within the clade.</p>
},
	issn = {1573-9708},
	doi = {10.1017/njg.2014.44},
	url = {http://journals.cambridge.org/article_S0016774614000444},
	attachments = {https://docentes.fct.unl.pt/sites/default/files/omateus/files/araujo_et_al_2015_a_new_elasmosaurid_from_the_early_maastrichtian_of_angola.pdf},
	author = {Ara{\'u}jo, R. and M. J. Polcyn and Schulp, AS and O. Mateus and Jacobs, LL and Gon{\c c}alves,A. Ol{\'\i}mpio and Morais,M.-L.}
}
