Marine and terrestrial animals show a mosaic of lineage extinctions and diversifications
during the J urassic–C retaceous transition. However, despite its potential importance in …

Recent innovations in phylogenetic comparative methods (PCMs) have spurred a
renaissance of research into the causes and consequences of large‐scale patterns of …

Diplodocidae are among the best known sauropod dinosaurs. Several species were
described in the late 1800s or early 1900s from the Morrison Formation of North America …

Marine reptiles and mammals are phylogenetically so distant from each other that their
marine adaptations are rarely compared directly. We reviewed ecophysiological features in …

During the Mesozoic, various groups of reptiles underwent a spectacular return to an aquatic
life, colonizing most marine environments. They were highly diversified both systematically …

Dinosaurs dominated Mesozoic terrestrial ecosystems globally. However, whereas a pole-to-
pole geographic distribution characterized ornithischians and theropods, sauropods were …

Secondary marine adaptation is a major pattern in amniote evolution, accompanied by
specific bone histological adaptations. In the aftermath of the end-Permian extinction …

Mesozoic marine ecosystems were dominated by several clades of reptiles, including
sauropterygians, ichthyosaurs, crocodylomorphs, turtles, and mosasaurs, that repeatedly …

How clades diversify early in their history is integral to understanding the origins of
biodiversity and ecosystem recovery following mass extinctions. Moreover, diversification …

Pliosaurids were a long-lived and cosmopolitan group of marine predators that spanned 110
million years and occupied the upper tiers of marine ecosystems from the Middle Jurassic …