Pliosaurid plesiosaurians are iconic marine reptiles that regulated marine trophic chains
from the Middle Jurassic to the early Late Cretaceous. However, their evolution during the …

During the Middle and Late Jurassic, pliosaurid plesiosaurs evolved gigantic body size and
a series of craniodental adaptations that have been linked to the occupation of an apex …

The emergence of gigantic pliosaurid plesiosaurs reshaped the trophic structure of
Mesozoic marine ecosystems, and established an~ 80 million-year (Ma) dynasty of …

Pliosaurid marine reptiles played important roles in marine food chains from the Middle
Jurassic to the middle Cretaceous, frequently as apex predators. The evolution of …

Pliosaurid plesiosaurs were among the largest predators of Mesozoic marine ecosystems
attaining giant sizes up to 10–11 m in length, near a quarter of which could be constituted by …

The predatory pliosaurs were among the largest creatures ever to inhabit the oceans, some
reaching gigantic proportions greater than 15 m in length. Fossils of this subclade of …

Invasion of the open ocean by tetrapods represents a major evolutionary transition that
occurred independently in cetaceans, mosasauroids, chelonioids (sea turtles), ichthyosaurs …

A partial skeleton from the Sigiloceras enodatum ammonite Subzone (lower Callovian,
Middle Jurassic) of the Oxford Clay Formation of Quest Pit, near Stewartby, Bedfordshire …

Here, we describe part of a large-bodied macrophagous plesiosaur jaw from the lower
Bajocian (Middle Jurassic) Passwang Formation near Arisdorf in the Basel-Land canton of …

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