“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 …

ABSTRACT The old “Fort Benton Group”(Middle Cenomanian to Middle Turonian) in central
Kansas has produced a relatively large number of plesiosaur specimens. In modern …

Fossiliferous deposits of the Greenhorn Limestone (Upper Cretaceous) are found on the
Comanche National Grassland in southeastern Colorado. The lowest portion of the …

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 …

Otodontids include some of the largest macropredatory sharks that ever lived, the most
extreme case being Otodus (Megaselachus) megalodon. The reasons underlying their …

ABSTRACT A new, exquisitely preserved specimen of a small mosasaur, referable to
Mosasaurus missouriensis, is reported from the Bearpaw Formation (ca. 75 Ma, upper …

Plesiosaurs are an enigmatic, diverse extinct group of Mesozoic marine reptiles well known
for their unique body plan with two pairs of flippers and usually an elongated neck. The long …

Remnants of ophthalmosaurid ichthyosaurs recently discovered in the vicinity of the Tyndall
Glacier in the Torres del Paine National Park of southern Chile are extremely abundant and …

Cretoxyrhina mantelli is a Late Cretaceous lamniform shark that possibly resembled the
modern white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) in size, body form, and feeding strategies …