Palmula was a plesiosaur, a type of marine reptile. It was not a dinosaur, though it coexisted with many dinosaurs. Palmula lived during the Jurassic and resided in Asia, Africa and Europe.

All the Palmula illustrations below were collected from the internet. Enjoy and explore:

Palmula was described by the following scientific paper(s):
  • W. Riegraf. 1985. Biostratigraphie, Fauna und Mikropaläontologie des Untertoarcium-Profiles von Unterstürmig (Oberfranken, Süddeutschland). Geologische Blätter für Nordost-Bayern 34/35:241-272
  • L. Li. 1999. The Late Campian and Maastrichtian in northwestern Tunisia: palaeoenvironmental inferences from lithology, macrofauna and benthic formainifera. Cretaceous Research 20:231-252
  • H. J. Campbell, P. B. Andrews, and A. G. Beu, P. A. Maxwell, A. R. Edwards, M. G. Laird, N. deB Hornibrook, D. C. Mildenhall, W. A. Watters, J. S. Buckeridge, D. E. Lee, C. P. Strong, G. J. Wilson, B. W. Hayward. 1993. Cretaceous-Cenozoic geology and biostratigraphy of the Chatham Islands, New Zealand. Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences Monograph 2:1-269