The fossil record of ichthyosaurs, completeness metrics and sampling biases

TJ Cleary, BC Moon, AM Dunhill, MJ Benton - Palaeontology, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Ichthyosaurs were highly successful marine reptiles with an abundant and well‐studied
fossil record. However, their occurrences through geological time and space are sporadic …

[引用][C] Berlin-Ichthyosaur: preserving some of the Earth's largest marine vertebrates

DJ Bottjer, W Etter, JW Hagadorn, CM Tang - … fossil preservation: a unique view on …, 2002

[引用][C] An ichtyosaur with preserved soft tissue from the'Sinemurian of southern England

DM Martill - Palaeontology, 1995 - London: Palaeontological …

New metrics to differentiate species of Stenopterygius (Reptilia: Ichthyosauria) from the Lower Jurassic of southwestern Germany

EE Maxwell - Journal of Paleontology, 2012 - cambridge.org
Ichthyosaurs represent one of the most highly specialized lineages of marine reptiles, but
our understanding of the evolution of this group is based on specimens found at a …

Tooth histology in the cretaceous ichthyosaur Platypterygius australis, and its significance for the conservation and divergence of mineralized tooth tissues in …

EE Maxwell, MW Caldwell… - Journal of …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Ichthyosaurs are an extinct group of secondarily aquatic reptiles that show ligamentous tooth
attachment to the jaw in some derived forms. Here, we provide a modern description of tooth …

Soft-tissue preservation in a 95 million year old marine lizard: form, function, and aquatic adaptation

MW Caldwell, CD Sasso - Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 2004 - Taylor & Francis
DISCUSSION The scales of MSNM V3662 appear to be a blend of the scale types present in
extant lizards and snakes. Small, irregular, nonimbricated head scales associated with small …

Locomotory capabilities in the Early Cretaceous ichthyosaur Platypterygius australis based on osteological comparisons with extant marine mammals

M Zammit, BP Kear, RM Norris - Geological Magazine, 2014 - cambridge.org
Reconstructing the swimming capabilities of extinct marine tetrapods is critical for
unravelling broader questions about their palaeobiology, palaeoecology and …

[HTML][HTML] The soft tissue and skeletal anatomy of two Late Jurassic ichthyosaur specimens from the Solnhofen archipelago

LL Delsett, H Friis, M Kölbl-Ebert, JH Hurum - PeerJ, 2022 - peerj.com
Abstract Ichthyosaurs from the Solnhofen Lagerstätte are among the only examples of soft
tissue preservation in the major Middle Jurassic–middle Cretaceous family …

An evolutionary and developmental perspective on the loss of regionalization in the limbs of derived ichthyosaurs

EE Maxwell, TM Scheyer, DA Fowler - Geological Magazine, 2014 - cambridge.org
Ichthyosaurs, a lineage of extinct Mesozoic marine reptiles, have garnered attention in both
the palaeontological and developmental literature for the unique limb morphology seen in …

Defining the morphological quality of fossil footprints. Problems and principles of preservation in tetrapod ichnology with examples from the Palaeozoic to the present

L Marchetti, M Belvedere, S Voigt, H Klein… - Earth-Science …, 2019 - Elsevier
The morphology of fossil footprints is the basis of vertebrate footprint ichnology. However,
the processes acting during and after trace fossil registration which are responsible for the …