Abstract The Strawberry Bank Lagerstätte provides a rich insight into Early Jurassic marine
vertebrate life, revealing exquisite anatomical detail of marine reptiles and large …

Sensory perception is of crucial importance for animals to interact with their biotic and abiotic
environment. In amniotes, the clade including modern mammals (Synapsida), modern …

The largest phylogenetic analysis of ichthyosaurs to date is presented, with 114 ingroup taxa
coded at species level. Completeness of the taxa included varied from> 98% to< 2%; 10 …

Chelonioid turtles are the only surviving group of reptiles that secondarily evolved marine
lifestyles during the Mesozoic Early chelonioid evolution is documented by fossils of their …

Konservat-Lagerstätten—deposits with exceptionally preserved fossils—vary in abundance
across geographic and stratigraphic space due to paleoenvironmental heterogeneity. While …

Abstract The Middle Jurassic is an important time period for the evolutionary history of
marine reptiles as it represented a transitional phase for many clades. Notably, in …

Abstract The Late Jurassic ichthyosaur Nannopterygius is among the poorest known, with
the only skeleton, NHMUK PV 46497, on display in the Natural History Museum, London …

Abstract Besanosaurus leptorhynchus Dal Sasso & Pinna, 1996 was described on the basis
of a single fossil excavated near Besano (Italy) nearly three decades ago. Here, we re …

The hyoid apparatus is essential for underwater feeding in marine tetrapods, but it is unclear
whether this complex has evolved as convergently as other traits, such as dentition or …

Abstract The ichthyosaur genus Arthropterygius Maxwell, 2010 is considered as rare and
poorly known. However, considering the existing uncertainty regarding its position in respect …