Ecophysiological steps of marine adaptation in extant and extinct non‐avian tetrapods

R Motani, GJ Vermeij - Biological Reviews, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Marine reptiles and mammals are phylogenetically so distant from each other that their
marine adaptations are rarely compared directly. We reviewed ecophysiological features in …

A new species of longirostrine plioplatecarpine mosasaur (Squamata: Mosasauridae) from the Late Cretaceous of Morocco, with a re-evaluation of the problematic …

CRC Strong, MW Caldwell, T Konishi… - Journal of Systematic …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
The Upper Cretaceous phosphates of Morocco preserve one of the world's most diverse
assemblages of mosasaurs, reflecting the adaptive radiation of this clade during the …

Climate, competition, and the rise of mosasauroid ecomorphological disparity

SRR Cross, BC Moon, TL Stubbs, EJ Rayfield… - …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Mosasauroidea, prominent marine lizards (Squamata, Toxicofera) of the final 30 million
years of the Cretaceous, have been extensively studied for their morphology, ecology and …

New remains of Mosasauroidea (Reptilia, Squamata) from the Upper Cretaceous (Santonian) of Aude, southern France

M Plasse, X Valentin, G Garcia, G Guinot, N Bardet - Cretaceous Research, 2024 - Elsevier
New mosasaurid remains (Squamata) were collected from various Santonian localities in
the Sougraigne area (Aude Department, southern France). Cranial bones, some vertebrae …

Late Cretaceous vertebrate faunal assemblages of the Manitoba escarpment, Canada: Implications for Western Interior Seaway provinciality and biodiversity

AA Kilmury, KS Brink - Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology …, 2022 - Elsevier
Community zonation of the Late Cretaceous Western Interior Seaway (WIS) has been
suggested for bivalves, cephalopods, foraminifera, gastropods, and tetrapods. Most …

Jormungandr walhallaensis: A New Mosasaurine (Squamata: Mosasauroidea) from the Pierre Shale Formation (Pembina Member: Middle Campanian) of North …

AR Zietlow, CA Boyd, NE Van Vranken - Bulletin of the American Museum …, 2023 - BioOne
Mosasaurs are large, carnivorous aquatic lizards with a global distribution that lived during
the Late Cretaceous. After 200 years of scientific study, new mosasaur species are still being …

[HTML][HTML] Craniofacial ontogeny in Tylosaurinae

AR Zietlow - PeerJ, 2020 - peerj.com
Mosasaurs were large, globally distributed aquatic lizards that lived during the Late
Cretaceous. Despite numerous specimens of varying maturity, a detailed growth series has …

Unraveling the taxonomy of the South African mosasaurids

MR Woolley, A Chinsamy, MW Caldwell - Frontiers in Earth Science, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Until recently, only one mosasaur was identified in South Africa based on disarticulated skull
bones including two dentary fragments and a frontal with articulated elements. These were …

[PDF][PDF] 3D Models Related to the Publication: Interacting with the Inaccessible: Utilization of Multimedia-Based Visual Contents of Japan's National Monument, the …

K Matsui, T Karasawa - MorphoMuseuM, 2020 - academia.edu
The present 3D Dataset contains the 3D model used in in the following publication:
Interacting with the inaccessible: utilization of multimedia-based visual contents of Japan's …

Taxonomic and palaeobiological assessment of the South African mosasaurids

MR Woolley - 2021 - open.uct.ac.za
South African mosasaur remains consist of a frontal with articulating portions of the parietal
and postorbitofrontals (SAM-PK-5265); two dentary fragments (SAM-PK-5265) assigned to …