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English: Size comparison of the mosasaurine mosasaur Plotosaurus bennisoni. The larger and smaller specimens were scaled to their respective skull lengths. Diver silhoutte from File:Scuba33.jpg, which is by NOAA, and in the public domain.

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  • Lindgren, Johan; Jagt, John W. M.; Caldwell, Michael W. (2007). "A fishy mosasaur: the axial skeleton of Plotosaurus (Reptilia, Squamata) reassessed". Lethaia 40 (2): 153-160.
  • Lindgren, Johan; Alwmark, Carl; Caldwell, Michael W.; Fiorillo, Anthony R. (2009). "Skin of the Cretaceous mosasaur Plotosaurus: implications for aquatic adaptations in giant marine reptiles". Biology Letters 5 (4): 528–531. DOI:10.1098/rsbl.2009.0097.
  • Lindgren, Johan; Caldwell, Michael W.; Jagt, John W. M. (2008). "New data on the postcranial anatomy of the California mosasaur Plotosaurus bennisoni (Camp, 1942) (Upper Cretaceous: Maastrichtian), and the taxonomic status of P. tuckeri (Camp, 1942)". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 28 (4): 1043-1054.
  • LeBlanc, Aaron R. H.; Caldwell, Michael W.; Lindgren, Johan (2013). "Aquatic adaptation, cranial kinesis, and the skull of the mosasaurine mosasaur Plotosaurus bennisoni". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 33 (2): 349-362.
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