“Excellent... Those who are interested in vertebrate paleontology or in the scientific history of
the American midwest should really get a copy.”—PalArch's Journal of Vertebrate …

There is a long tradition of indirectly inferring feeding in fossil and Recent vertebrates from
the functional morphology of bones and teeth. However, some trace fossils provide direct …

In this complete and thorough update of Arthur Boucot's seminal work, Evolutionary
Paleobiology of Behavior and Coevolution, Boucot is joined by George Poinar, who …

The defining masterwork on the evolution of reptiles. Over 300 million years ago, an early
land vertebrate developed an egg that contained the embryo in an amnion, allowing it to be …

Abstract The Cretaceous–Paleogene (K–Pg) transition saw mass extinctions in terrestrial
and marine ecosystems. Terrestrial vertebrate diversity patterns across the K–Pg boundary …

The trace-fossil record of vertebrates contains behavioral evidence of fish, amphibians,
reptiles, dinosaurs, mammals, and birds in continental, transitional, and marine …

Viviparity is known in several clades of Mesozoic aquatic reptiles, but evidence for it is
lacking in the Plesiosauria. Here, we report a Late Cretaceous plesiosaur fossil consisting of …

Background Taphonomic study of marine vertebrate remains has traditionally focused on
single skeletons, lagerstätten, or bonebed genesis with few attempts to document …

Aside from large sharks such as Cretoxyrhina mantelli, there are no other marine species
known from the Late Cretaceous which could challenge the role of mosasaurs as apex …

Observations of temporal overlap of niche occupation among Late Cretaceous marine
amniotes suggest that the rise and diversification of mosasauroid squamates might have …