Ancient Marine ReptilesJack M. Callaway, Elizabeth L. Nicholls Academic Press, 1997 M03 12 - 501 páginas Vertebrate evolution has led to the convergent appearance of many groups of originally terrestrial animals that now live in the sea. Among these groups are familiar mammals like whales, dolphins, and seals. There are also reptilian lineages (like plesiosaurs, ichthyosaurs, mosasaurs, thalattosaurs, and others) that have become sea creatures. Most of these marine reptiles, often wrongly called "dinosaurs", are extinct. This edited book is devoted to these extinct groups of marine reptiles. These reptilian analogs represent useful models of the myriad adaptations that permit tetrapods to live in the ocean.
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Chapter 1 The Paleobiogeography of Shastasaurus | 17 |
Chapter 2 A New Look at Mixosaurus | 45 |
Chapter 3 A Transitional Ichthyosaur Fauna | 61 |
Chapter 4 Temporal and Spatial Distribution of Tooth Implantation in Ichthyosaurs | 81 |
Sauropterygia | 105 |
Chapter 5 Paleobiogeography of Middle Triassic Sauropterygia in Central and Western Europe | 121 |
Chapter 6 Morphological and Taxonomic Clarification of the Genus Plesiosaurus | 145 |
Chapter 7 Comparative Cranial Anatomy of Two North American Cretaceous Plesiosaurs | 191 |
Chapter 9 Desmatochelys lowi a Marine Turtle from the Upper Cretaceous | 243 |
Chapter 10 The Paleogeography of Marine and Coastal Turtles of the North Atlantic and TransSaharan Regions | 259 |
Mosasauridae | 279 |
Chapter 11 A Phylogenetic Revision of North American and Adriatic Mosasauroidea | 293 |
Chapter 12 Ecological Implications of Mosasaur Bone Microstructure | 333 |
Crocodylia | 355 |
Faunas Behavior and Evolution | 399 |
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PART III Testudines | 217 |
Chapter 8 Distribution and Diversity of Cretaceous Chelonioids | 225 |
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aigialosaurs Anisian aquatic articular BMNH bone British Buffetaut Callaway cervical chelonioids classification Clidastes Conybeare cornalianus Cretaceous crocodiles crocodilians Cymatosaurus Cymbospondylus dental groove dentary dentition Desmatochelys diapsid distal Dolichorhynchops dorsal elasmosaurs elongate evolution fauna fenestra Figure figured first fish foramen fossil record frontal Gaffney genera genus Germanic Basin groups guild holotype Huene humerus Hyposaurus ichthyosaurs identified implantation Journal of Vertebrate Jurassic known Ladinian lateral length Libonectes limbs lower Muschelkalk Massare maxilla Mazin McGowan medial Merriam Mesozoic Mesozoic marine reptiles Metriorhynchus Middle Triassic Mixosaurus morphology mosasauroids mosasaurs Muschelkalk Museum of Natural Natural History neural spines Nothosaurus orbit ossification Owen parietal phylogenetic phylogeny placodonts Platecarpus plesiosaurs pliosauroids posterior predators premaxilla primitive pterygoid quadrate region relationships Reptilia Rieppel Sauropterygia sea turtles Shastasaurus Shonisaurus significant skeleton skull species specimen Storrs stratigraphic suture taxa taxon Taylor teeth tetrapods thecodont Tithonian tooth Triassic ichthyosaurs Tylosaurus Upper ventral Vertebrate Vertebrate Paleontology Williston Zangerl