FIGURE 14 in Taxonomic utility of Early Cretaceous Australian plesiosaurian vertebrae

FIGURE 14. Plot for vertebral length index (VLI) against breadth index (BI) for Australian plesiosaurians and nonAustralian elasmosaurids. Data for QM F3567 and RM FR271 from Sachs (2004); Opallionectes andamookaensis from Kear (2005a); Elamosaurus platyurus, Thalassomedon haningtoni, Callawayasaurus colombiensis, and Cm Zfr 115 from O'Keefe and Hiller (2006); Aristonectes quiriquinensis from Otero et al. (2014); Albertonectes vanderveldei from Kubo et al. (2012); Vegasaurus molyi from O'Gorman el. (2015); Tuarangisaurus keyesi from Hiller et al. (2017); AMNH FARB 1495, AMNH FARB 5835, Styxosaurus snowii, and AMNH FARB 2554 from Otero (2016); Aristonectes parvidens from O'Gorman (2016a); Kawanectes lafquenianus from O'Gorman (2016b); Lagenanectes richterae from Sachs et al. (2017) and Jucha squalea from Fischer et al. (2020).