Functional significance of bone ballastin in the evolution of buoyancy control strategies by aquatic tetrapods

MA Taylor - Historical Biology, 2000 - Taylor & Francis
sauropterygians ("nothosaurs"), placodonts, and the sea otter Enhydra. These last two show
convergent evolution of adaptations to feeding … of the head and neck, when the snake struck …

Sauropterygia: histology of plesiosauria

PM Sander, T Wintrich - Vertebrate skeletal histology and …, 2021 - taylorfrancis.com
… A, Humerus of the indeterminate juvenile elasmosaur OMNH … These are present in all
plesiosaur cervical vertebral centra. The … liensis (Reptilia: Sauropterygia): implications for …

Plesiosaurs, reptiles between grace and awe

E Frey, W Stinnesbeck, HE Riveria-Sylvia… - … and Other Reptiles …, 2014 - books.google.com
Elasmosaurus platyurus was up to 14 m long, and the neck … Bite marks on an elasmosaur
(Sauropterygia, Plesiosauria) … ) as probable evidence of feeding by the lamniform shark …

Description and histology of a small-bodied elasmosaur and discription of mortuneria seyemourensis postcranium

E Lester - 2019 - mds.marshall.edu
… of deep sea predators with long necks, small heads, and … of hyperphalangy—increasing
limb flexibility. Nothosaurs had … , and explored a potential feeding strategy of filter feeding. The …

[HTML][HTML] Computer simulations imply forelimb-dominated underwater flight in plesiosaurs

S Liu, AS Smith, Y Gu, J Tan, CK Liu… - PLoS Computational …, 2015 - journals.plos.org
… highly derived Mesozoic marine reptiles with a global distribution … The neck and tail in
plesiosaurs were flexible in life to … To test the effect of muscle bulk at the base of the limbs, we built …

A Long-Necked Reptile With Implication on Cervical Elongation of Archosauromorphs and Other Tetrapods

W Wang, SNF Spiekman, L Zhao, O Rieppel… - Available at SSRN … - papers.ssrn.com
cervical centra, all are not flexible and seems not varied … feeding area, increasing energy
efficiency, allowing access to … strategy of increasing cervical number more than excessively …

New insights on the Aristonectes parvidens (Plesiosauria, Elasmosauridae) holotype: news on an old specimen

JP O'Gorman - Ameghiniana, 2016 - BioOne
… in ram feeding require greater support from the cervical region. … /or capture strategy are
highly correlated seems probable. … me to review the elasmosaurs from those institutions. Thanks …

[图书][B] Mobility and hydrodynamic implications of the long neck in plesiosaurs

PV Troelsen - 2018 - search.proquest.com
… plesiosaurs behaved and fed, may have wider implications as it … Zarnik’s on plesiosaur neck
flexibility are included in this … F) The incorrect elasmosaur restoration by Cope in 1869 from …

[HTML][HTML] High diversity, low disparity and small body size in plesiosaurs (Reptilia, Sauropterygia) from the Triassic–Jurassic boundary

RBJ Benson, M Evans, PS Druckenmiller - PLoS One, 2012 - journals.plos.org
… 556) referred informally to ‘microcleidid elasmosaurs’, a … and short neck lengths, as well as
Eoplesiosaurus, with a neck at … Our understanding of the effect of Late Triassic extinctions on …

[图书][B] The function and evolution of the syncervical in ceratopsian dinosaurs with a review of cervical fusion in tetrapods

CS VanBuren - 2013 - search.proquest.com
… ecological and behavioural implications. Fused, anterior … behaviour or unique feeding ecology
in early neoceratopsians. … Increased (or plesiomorphically maintained) neck flexibility may …