Callovian Marine Reptiles of European Russia
DiversityOur knowledge of marine reptiles of the Callovian age (Middle Jurassic) is majorly based on the collections from the Oxford Clay Formation of England, which yielded a diverse marine reptile fauna of plesiosaurians, ichthyosaurians, and thalattosuchians ...
Nikolay Zverkov +4 more
doaj +2 more sources
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2021 The small-sized sauropterygian Keichousaurus hui was one of the most abundant marine reptiles from the Triassic Yangtze Sea in South China. Although Keichousaurus has been studied in many aspects, including the osteology, ontogeny, sexual dimorphism, and
Jun-ling Liao +9 more
doaj +3 more sources
Two new species of the genus Cylindrophis Wagler, 1828 (Squamata: Cylindrophiidae) from Southeast Asia [PDF]
, 2015 © 2015 Amarasinghe et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercialNoDerivatives 4.0 International License, which permits unrestricted use for non-commercial and education purposes only ...
Supriatna, J +5 more
core +8 more sources
Reptile biodiversity in Souss-Massa National Park: an internationally important hotspot in the Mediterranean region [PDF]
Biodiversity Data Journal, 2022 Souss-Massa National Park (SMNP) is Morocco’s first coastal national park, created to preserve the high diversity of its continental and marine environments.
Abderrafea Elbahi +5 more
doaj +3 more sources
The evolution of bone-eating worm diversity in the Upper Cretaceous Chalk Group of the United Kingdom. [PDF]
PLoS ONEThe bone-eating worm Osedax is today a member of the highly adapted invertebrate assemblages associated with whale carcasses on the ocean floor. The worm has also been found in a variety of other vertebrates in marine environments.
Sarah Jamison-Todd +6 more
doaj +2 more sources
Microvertebrate faunal assemblages of the Favel Formation (late Cenomanian-middle Turonian) of Manitoba, Canada [PDF]
PeerJ, 2023 Microvertebrate assemblages of the Upper Cretaceous (late Cenomanian to mid-Turonian) Favel Formation of Manitoba are formally described for the first time. New vertebrate occurrences from the Favel Formation include the actinopterygians Caturidae indet.,
Aaron A. Kilmury +6 more
doaj +2 more sources
Youngest occurrences of rhomaleosaurid plesiosaurs indicate survival of an archaic marine reptile clade at high palaeolatitudes [PDF]
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 2015 Rhomaleosaurid plesiosaurians were a common and ecologically significant component of Early Jurassic marine faunas, primarily as large-bodied predators. They declined in abundance and made their last fossil appearance in the Middle Jurassic. However, the
Roger B.J. Benson +2 more
doaj +1 more source
Biology Open, 2022 Heart rates of air-breathing diving animals can change on a short time scale due to the diving response during submergence. Heart rate is used frequently as a proxy for indirectly estimating metabolic rates on a fine time scale.
Chihiro Kinoshita +4 more
doaj +1 more source
A new rhynchocephalian (Reptilia: Lepidosauria) from the Late Jurassic of Solnhofen (Germany) and the origin of the marine Pleurosauridae [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2017 A new rhynchocephalian is described based on a recently discovered and well-preserved specimen from the Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian) marine limestones of Solnhofen, Bavaria.
Gabriel S. Bever, Mark A. Norell
doaj +1 more source
PLoS ONE, 2011 Of the more than 12,000 species and subspecies of extant reptiles, about 100 have re-entered the ocean. Among them are seven species of sea turtles and about 80 species and subspecies of sea snakes, as well as a few other species that are occasionally or regularly found in brackish waters, including various other snakes, the saltwater crocodile, and ...
Rasmessen, Arne R. +4 more
openaire +5 more sources