Stomach stones for feeding or buoyancy? The occurrence and function of gastroliths in marine tetrapods

MA Taylor - … Transactions of the Royal Society of London …, 1993 - royalsocietypublishing.org
… Sirenians graze on plants, and the extinct placodont reptiles … developed into the present
flexible buoyancy control mechanism. … and func tional considerations suggest that gastroliths are …

[图书][B] Paleontology of vertebrates

J Chaline - 2012 - books.google.com
… Thedorsal notochord is a flexible strand which existsin every vertebrate embryo, but while it
persists in the adultsof the lover vertebrates (Cyclostomes), it rapidly disappearsin the higher …

The Princeton field guide to Mesozoic sea reptiles

GS Paul - 2022 - torrossa.com
… long neck of the famed plesiosaur Elasmosaurus for the tail, … very slender teeth for filter
feeding, but plesiosaur skulls were … necks were not as flexible as those of elasmosaurs, all the …

Estrategias de depredación de los reptiles marinos del Cretácico colombiano.

AC Pinedo Garnica, JM Casallas Melo - 2020 - repositorio.pedagogica.edu.co
… y pliosauridos del orden Sauropterygia (Suborden: Plesiosauria), … marine reptiles: Implications
for method of predation se … y una articulación mandibular flexible que le permitía un mejor …