(Last updated July 11, 2010.)
* = PDF file.Marine reptiles: mosasaurs, ichthyosaurs, plesiosaurs, etc.
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| A complete skull of a new mosasauroid from the Acadia Park Member of the Eagle Ford Shale (late Middle Turonian) near Dallas, Texas | Polcyn, M. J. and G. L. Bell, Jr. | Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 16 (suppl. to 3):58A; 1996 |
| A new basal mosasauroid from the Arcadia Park Member of the Eagle Ford Shale (Late Middle Turonian) near Dallas, Texas | Bell, G. L. Jr. and M. J. Polcyn | Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 15 (suppl. to 3): 18A; 1995 |
| A new elasmosaur from the Eagle Ford shale of Texas: systematic description | Welles, S. P. | Southern Methodist University, Fondren Science Series 1, 1949 |
| A new elasmosaur from the Eagle Ford shale of Texas; The elasmosaur and its environment | Shuler, Ellis W. | Southern Methodist University, Fondren Science Series V1, #2, 1-33 pp. 26 figs, 1950 |
| A new late middle Turonian mosasauroid from Texas | Schulp, A. S.; John W. M. Jagt | First Mosasaur Meeting, and Natuurhistorisch Museum Maastricht, the Netherlands, pp.15; 2004 |
| A New Polycotylid Plesiosaur from the Lake Waco Formation (Cenomanian) of Texas * | John T. Thurmond | Journal of Paleontology; September 1968; v. 42; no. 5; pp. 1289-1296 |
| A review of occurrences of the plesiosauria (Reptilia: Sauropterygia) in Texas with description of new material | Storrs, G. W. | Masters Thesis, The University of Texas at Austin, 226 pages;1981 (Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 1983, Vol. 2, No. 4, 486) |
| An Ichthyosaurian Centrum from the Albian of Texas * | Charles L. McNulty, Jr., Bob H. Slaughter | Journal of Paleontology, Vol. 36, No. 2 (Mar., 1962), pp. 346-347 |
| Biostratigraphy and reptile fauna of the Upper Austin and Taylor groups (Upper Cretaceous) of Texas with special reference to Hunt, Fannin, Lamar, and Delta counties | Betty Joan Echols | UTA thesis/manuscript, 1972 |
| Cenomanian (Late Cretaceous) reptiles from northwestern Russel County, Kansas * | Liggett, G. A., Shimada, K, Bennett, S. C., and B. A. Schumancher | Paleobios. 25: 9–17; Sept. 15, 2005 |
| Comanchean Reptiles from Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas | Gould, Charles Newton | Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 40, p. 457-462; 1929 |
| Coniasaurus Owen, 1850 from North America * | Bryce A. Bell, Phillip A. Murry, Lawrence W. Osten | Journal of Paleontology, Vol. 56, No. 2 (Mar., 1982), pp. 520-524 |
| Coniasaurus Owen, 1850 (Reptilia: Squamata), from the Upper Cretaceous Niobrara Chalk of western Kansas * | Shimada, K.; Bell, G. L. | Vol. 80; No. 3, pp. 589-593; 2006 |
| Cretaceous 13C stratigraphy and the age of dolichosaurs and early mosasaurs | L.L. Jacobs, K. Ferguson, M.J. Polcyn & C. Rennison | Netherlands Journal of Geosciences, 84–3, p. 257-268, 2005 |
| Dallasaurus turneri, a new primitive mosasauroid from the Middle Turonian of Texas * | G. L. Bell Jr., & M. J. Polcyn | Netherlands Journal of Geoscience (Geologie en Mijnbouw) 84 (3): p. 177-194, 2005. |
| Early Cretaceous (Comanchean) vertebrates of central Texas | Winkler, D. A.; P. A. Murry; L. L. Jacobs | Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 10 (1): 95-116; 1990 |
| Ichthyosaur (Reptilia: Ichthyosauria) Vertebra from the Kiowa Shale (Lower Cretaceous: Upper Albian), Clark County, Kansas * | Kenshu Shimada | Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science (1903-), Vol. 99, No. 1/2 (Apr., 1996), pp. 39-44 |
| Late Cretaceous elasmobranchs from the Mississippi and east Texas embayments of the Gulf Coastal Plain. | Meyer, R. L. | Unpublished doctoral dissertation, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, 400pp., 1974 |
| Lower vertebrates and paleoecology of the Trinty group (lower cretaceous) in North Central Texas | Thurmond, John T. | Dallas, Texas; 1969 |
| Occurrences of ichthyosaurian remains in the Cretaceous of Texas | Slaughter, B. H. and B. R. Hoover | Texas Journal of Science, v. 15, no. 3, p. 339-343;1963 |
| Recovery and study of Middle Cretaceous vertebrate fossils in north-central Texas. | Slaughter, Robert H. | National Geographic Society, 1982. |
| Report of a new Platypterygius (Reptilia: Ichthyosauria) specimen from the Lower Cretaceous rocks of Tarrant County, TX | Main, Derek J. and Anthony Fiorillo | Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 22(3):82A (supplement).; 2002 |
| Revision of North American elasmosaurs from the Cretaceous of the Western Interior * | Kenneth Carpenter | Paludicola, Vol. 2, No. 2, 1999 |
| Russellosaurus coheni n. gen., n. sp., a 92 million-year-old mosasaur from Texas * | M. J. Polcyn and G. L. Bell, Jr. | Netherlands Journal of Geosciences 84(3): p. 321-333, 2005 |
| Systematics and Morphology of American Mosasaurs * | Dale A. Russell | Bulletin 23 of the Peabody Museum of natural History, Yale University, Nov. 1967 |
| The evolution of plesiosaur and pliosaur morphotypes in the Plesiosauria (Reptilia - Sauropterygia) * | F. Robin O'Keefe | Paleobiology, 28 (1), 2002, pp. 101-112 |
| The First Record of the Plesiosaurian Genus Polyptychodon
(Pliosauridae) from the New World |
S. P. Welles and Bob H. Slaughter | Journal of Paleontology, Vol. 37, No. 1, (Jan., 1963), pp. 131-133 |
| The Occurrence And Geological Setting Of Cretaceous Dinosaurs, Mosasaurs, Plesiosaurs, And Turtles From Angola * | Louis Jacobs, et al. | . Paleont. Soc. Korea, 22 (1): 91-110 |
| The oldest North American mosasaurs (Reptilia: Squamata) from the Turonian (Upper Cretaceous) of Kansas and Texas... * | M. J. Polcyn, G. L. Bell, K. Shimada, and M. J. Everhart | In: Late Cretaceous Vertebrates from the Western Interior, Bulletin of the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, 35:215; 2006 |
| The Onion Creek mosasaur * | Langston, W. Jr. | Texas Memorial Museum, Museum Notes No. 10, 24 pp.; 1966 |
| The rare mosasaur genus Globidens from North Central Texas. | Polcyn, M. J.; Bell, G. L., Jr. | Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 25 (Supplement to 4) |
General:
| An examination of Plesiosauria (Diapsida - Sauropterygia) from the Niobrara Formation (Upper Cretaceous) of central North America * | Glenn W. Storrs | The University of Texas, Paleontological Contributions, No. 11, Aug. 1999 |
| A mounted skeleton of Platecarpus * | S. W. Williston | Journal of Geology, Vol. XVIII (18), No. 6, p. 537-541, 1910 |
| A Review of the North American Cretaceous Elasmosaurs. | Welles, S. P. | University of California Publications in Geological Science 29, 46–144. 1952. |
| Late Cretaceous marine reptiles (Mosasauridae and Plesiosauria) from New Mexico and their biostratigraphic distribution * | Spielmann, J. A. and Lucas, S. G. | In: Late Cretaceous Vertebrates from the Western Interior, New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 35 |
| Marine vertebrates from the Blue Hill shale member of the Carlile shale (Upper Cretaceous: Middle Turonian) in Kansas * | Shimada, K. | In: Late Cretaceous Vertebrates from the Western Interior, New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 35 |
| The oldest North American mosasaurs (Reptilia: Squamata) from the Turonian (Upper Cretaceous) of Kansas and Texas, and the rise of major mosasaur lineages * | Polcyn, M. J., Bell, G. L. Jr., Shimada, K. and Everhart, M. J. | In: Late Cretaceous Vertebrates from the Western Interior, New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 35 |
*marine = Those animals that depend on marine environment to support their body weight and can't live long outside water which is why turtles, crocs, and gators are not listed as marine.