A globally distributed durophagous marine reptile clade supports the rapid recovery of pelagic ecosystems after the Permo-Triassic mass extinction [PDF]
Communications Biology, 2022 Further evidence for an explosive marine reptile diversification event in the Early Triassic is presented via morphological analysis of a new Sclerocormus specimen.
Yu Qiao +7 more
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Refining the marine reptile turnover at the Early–Middle Jurassic transition [PDF]
PeerJ, 2021 Even though a handful of long-lived reptilian clades dominated Mesozoic marine ecosystems, several biotic turnovers drastically changed the taxonomic composition of these communities.
Valentin Fischer, Robert Weis, Ben Thuy
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Evidence Supporting Predation of 4-m Marine Reptile by Triassic Megapredator [PDF]
iScience, 2020 Summary: Air-breathing marine predators have been essential components of the marine ecosystem since the Triassic. Many of them are considered the apex predators but without direct evidence—dietary inferences are usually based on circumstantial evidence,
Da-Yong Jiang +8 more
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A new long-snouted marine reptile from the Middle Triassic of China illuminates pachypleurosauroid evolution [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2023 Sauropterygia is the largest, most successful group of Mesozoic marine diapsids, spanning from the late Early Triassic to the Late Cretaceous. Plesiomorphic for sauropterygians, pachypleurosauroids are important for our understanding on the early ...
Guang-Hui Xu +7 more
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Tuberculosis-like respiratory infection in 245-million-year-old marine reptile suggested by bone pathologies [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2018 An absence of ancient archaeological and palaeontological evidence of pneumonia contrasts with its recognition in the more recent archaeological record. We document an apparent infection-mediated periosteal reaction affecting the dorsal ribs in a Middle ...
Dawid Surmik +3 more
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Successful Surgical Excision of a Chronic Abscess in a Hawksbill Turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata): A Case Report [PDF]
Veterinary SciencesIn sea turtles, soft tissue abscesses typically present with a solid, caseous consistency and respond poorly to pharmacological treatment. A hawksbill turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata) exhibited a chronic subcutaneous mass near the cloacal region that had ...
Da Sol Park +7 more
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A carapace-like bony 'body tube' in an early triassic marine reptile and the onset of marine tetrapod predation. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 Parahupehsuchus longus is a new species of marine reptile from the Lower Triassic of Yuan'an County, Hubei Province, China. It is unique among vertebrates for having a body wall that is completely surrounded by a bony tube, about 50 cm long and 6.5 cm ...
Xiao-hong Chen +4 more
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Contrasting effects of agriculture and urbanisation on bird and reptile communities in a Mediterranean delta (Gediz Delta, Türkiye) [PDF]
BMC Ecology and EvolutionBackground Wetlands have been some of the most destroyed ecosystems over the last century, with important land-use changes resulting from agricultural, industrial, and urban development.
Dilara Arslan +8 more
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The Earliest Herbivorous Marine Reptile and Its Remarkable Jaw Apparatus [PDF]
Science Advances, 2016 Nicholas C. Fraser, Olivier Rieppel
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The giant pliosaurid that wasn’t—revising the marine reptiles from the Kimmeridgian, Upper Jurassic, of Krzyżanowice, Poland [PDF]
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 2021 Marine reptiles from the Upper Jurassic of Central Europe are rare and often fragmentary, which hinders their precise taxonomic identification and their placement in a palaeobiogeographic context.
Daniel Madzia +2 more
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