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List of works by Sven Sachs

A new basal elasmosaurid (Sauropterygia: Plesiosauria) from the Lower Cretaceous of Germany

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A new species of Cricosaurus (Thalattosuchia, Metriorhynchidae) based upon a remarkably well-preserved skeleton from the Upper Jurassic of Germany

scholarly article published in 2021

A new species of Cyclotosaurus (Stereospondyli, Capitosauria) from the Late Triassic of Bielefeld, NW Germany, and the intrarelationships of the genus

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A new species of the metriorhynchid crocodylomorph Cricosaurus from the Upper Jurassic of southern Germany

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A rare new Pliensbachian plesiosaurian from the Amaltheenton Formation of Bielefeld in northwestern Germany

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Ankylosaur remains from the early cretaceous (valanginian) of northwestern Germany

scientific article published in 2013

Convergent evolution and possible constraint in the posterodorsal retraction of the external nares in pelagic crocodylomorphs

scientific article published in 2020

Cutting the Gordian knot: a historical and taxonomic revision of the Jurassic crocodylomorph Metriorhynchus

scholarly article published in 2020

Equatorial pliosaurid from Venezuela marks the youngest South American occurrence of the clade

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Filling the biostratigraphical gap: first choristoderan from the Lower–mid-Cretaceous interval of Europe

article published in 2018

First evidence of a large predatory plesiosaurian from the Lower Cretaceous non-marine ‘Wealden facies’ deposits of northwestern Germany

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First record of Gyrosteus mirabilis (Actinopterygii, Chondrosteidae) from the Toarcian (Lower Jurassic) of the Baltic region

scientific article published on 22 January 2020

Historical significance and taxonomic status of Ischyrodon meriani (Pliosauridae) from the Middle Jurassic of Switzerland

scientific article published on 07 April 2022

Inner ear sensory system changes as extinct crocodylomorphs transitioned from land to water

scientific article published on 20 April 2020

Juvenile ornithopod (Dinosauria: Rhabdodontidae) remains from the Upper Cretaceous (Lower Campanian, Gosau Group) of Muthmannsdorf (Lower Austria)

scholarly article by Sven Sachs & Jahn J. Hornung published May 2006 in Geobios

Morphological and phylogenetic aspects of the dentition of Megacephalosaurus eulerti, a pliosaurid from the Turonian of Kansas, USA, with remarks on the cranial anatomy of the taxon

scholarly article by Daniel Madzia et al published 24 July 2018 in Geological Magazine

On the largest Ichthyosaurus: A new specimen of Ichthyosaurus somersetensis containing an embryo

scientific article published in 2017

Reappraisal of Europe's most complete Early Cretaceous plesiosaurian: Brancasaurus brancai Wegner, 1914 from the "Wealden facies" of Germany

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Redescription of the elasmosaurid plesiosaurian Libonectes atlasense from the Upper Cretaceous of Morocco

scholarly article by Sven Sachs & Benjamin P. Kear published June 2017 in Cretaceous Research

Revised vertebral count in the "longest-necked vertebrate" Elasmosaurus platyurus Cope 1868, and clarification of the cervical-dorsal transition in Plesiosauria

scientific article (publication date: 2013)

Soft-tissue evidence for homeothermy and crypsis in a Jurassic ichthyosaur

scientific article published in Nature

Turonian marine amniotes from the Opole area in southwest Poland

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