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 …

Squamates first appeared in Europe in the Middle Jurassic. They were lizards that already
included some crown-group members. Faunas of the Late Jurassic and Early Cretaceous …

Numerous amniote groups adapted to an aquatic life. This change of habitat naturally led to
numerous convergences. The various adaptive traits vary depending on the degree of …

Cetacea are secondarily aquatic amniotes that underwent their land-to-sea transition during
the Eocene. Primitive forms, called archaeocetes, include five families with distinct degrees …

Aquatic reptiles are very diversified in the fossil record. The description and pooling of
certain bone histological features (collagenous weave and vascular network) of the various …

The femoral microanatomy of 155 species of extant amniotes (57 species of mammals, 15
species of turtles, 56 species of lepidosaurs, and 27 species of birds) of known lifestyle is …

Among living turtles, highly terrestrial or highly aquatic modes of life are likely to have
developed from a plesiomorphic semi-aquatic one. A taxonomically comprehensive data set …

The inner ear morphology of 80 snake and lizard species, representative of a range of
ecologies, is here analysed and compared to that of the fossil stem snake Dinilysia …

Background During their evolution in the Late Cretaceous, mosasauroids attained a
worldwide distribution, accompanied by a marked increase in body size and open ocean …

Aetosaurs were a group of armoured pseudosuchians, recorded in most of the Upper
Triassic continental deposits worldwide. Several osteohistological contributions of aetosaurs …