Sven Sachs

Sven Sachs, palaeontologist.

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

(List may be incomplete)

Sachs, S., Hornung, J.J. & Kear, B.P. 2016. Reappraisal of Europe’s most complete Early Cretaceous plesiosaurian: Brancasaurus brancai Wegner, 1914 from the ‘‘Wealden facies’’ of Germany. PeerJ 4: e2813. DOI: 10.7717/peerj.2813 Reference page.

Sachs, S., Young, M.T., Abel, P. & Mallison, H. 2019. A new species of the metriorhynchid crocodylomorph Cricosaurus from the Upper Jurassic of southern Germany. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 64(2): 343–356. DOI: 10.4202/app.00541.2018 Reference page.

Sachs, S., Lindgren, J., Madzia, D. & Kear, B.P. 2020. Cranial osteology of the mid-Cretaceous elasmosaurid Thalassomedon haningtoni from the Western Interior Seaway of North America. Cretaceous Research 123: 104769. DOI: /10.1016/j.cretres.2021.104769 . Reference page.
Young, M.T., Sachs, S., Abel, P., Foffa, D., Herrera, L. & Kitson, J.J.N. 2020. Convergent evolution and possible constraint in the posterodorsal retraction of the external nares in pelagic crocodylomorphs. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 189(2): 494–520. DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaa021 Reference page.

Young, M.T., Brignon, A. Sachs, S., Hornung, J.J., Foffa, D., Kitson, J.J.N., Johnson, M.M. & Steel, L. "2021" [2020]. Cutting the Gordian knot: a historical and taxonomic revision of the Jurassic crocodylomorph Metriorhynchus. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 192(2): 510–553. DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaa092 Reference page.
Sachs, S., Young, M.T., Abel, P. & Mallison, H. 2021. A new species of Cricosaurus (Thalattosuchia, Metriorhynchidae) based upon a remarkably well-preserved skeleton from the Upper Jurassic of Germany. Palaeontologia Electronica 24.2.a24. DOI: 10.26879/928 Reference page.

Lindgren, J., Lomax, D.R., Szász, R.-Z., Marx, M., Revstedt, J., Göltz, G., Sachs, S., De La Garza, R.G., Heingård, M., Jarenmark, M., Ydström, K., Sjövall, P., Osbæck, F., Hall, S.A., Op De Beeck, M., Eriksson, M.E., Alwmark, C., Marone, F., LIptak, A., Atwood, R., Burca, G., Uvdal, P., Persson, P. & Nilsson, D.-E. 2025. Adaptations for stealth in the wing-like flippers of a large ichthyosaur. Nature DOI: 10.1038/s41586-025-09271-w . Reference page.