The morphology of the vertebrate lower jaw has been used to infer feeding ecology, with
transformations in mandibular shape and structure likely to have facilitated the emergence of …

Jaw morphology is closely linked to both diet and biomechanical performance, and jaws are
one of the most common Mesozoic mammal fossil elements. Knowledge of the dietary and …

Reconstructing patterns of macroevolution has become a central endeavor in paleobiology,
because it offers insight into evolutionary models shaping the history of life. As the most …

The ecological context of early vertebrate evolution is envisaged as a long-term trend
towards increasingly active food acquisition and enhanced locomotory capabilities …

Despite the exceptional diversity and central role of dentitions in vertebrate evolution, many
aspects of tooth characters remain unknown. Here, we exploit the large array of dental …

During the Late Cretaceous, two marine reptile groups (mosasaurs and polycotylids
plesiosaurs) regulated oceanic trophic chains, diversifying in the wake of the extinction of …

Dinosaurs evolved a remarkable diversity of dietary adaptations throughout the Mesozoic,
but the origins of different feeding modes are uncertain, especially the multiple origins of …

The vertebrate water-to-land transition and the rise of tetrapods brought about fundamental
changes for the groups undergoing these evolutionary changes (ie stem and early …

Vertebrate dentitions are often collapsed into a few discrete categories, obscuring both
potentially important functional differences between them and insight into their evolution …

The acquisition of elongated, sabre-like canines in multiple vertebrate clades during the last
265 Myr represents a remarkable example for convergent evolution. Due to striking …