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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
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The Evolution of Marine Reptiles [PDF]
Evolution: Education and Outreach, 2009 Reptiles have repeatedly invaded marine environments despite their physiological constraints as air breathers. Marine reptiles were especially successful in the Mesozoic as major predators in the sea. There were more than a dozen groups of marine reptiles in the Mesozoic, of which four had more than 30 genera, namely sauropterygians (including ...
Motani, Ryosuke, Ryosuke Motani
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Specific marine policies are needed to prevent the extinction of marine reptiles
Frontiers in Marine ScienceThe author(s) declare financial support was received for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article. This study has been funded by the Spanish Herpetological Association (AHE).
José Carlos Báez +2 more
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Establishment of the Luoping Biota National Geopark in Yunnan, China [PDF]
Geoconservation Research, 2022 Geoparks in China have been a great success story, with 284 national geoparks and 41 of them accorded UNESCO international status, the highest number for any country in the world.
Michael Benton +6 more
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The amphibians and reptiles of Colima, Mexico, with a summary of their conservation status [PDF]
ZooKeys, 2020 Colima is the fourth smallest Mexican state, covering only 0.3% of the surface area of Mexico, but due to the remarkable diversity of physiographic and environmental conditions present in Colima it contains a high biological diversity. We generated an up-
Julio A. Lemos-Espinal +3 more
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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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Scientific knowledge gaps on the biology of non-fish marine species across European Seas
Frontiers in Marine Science, 2023 Available information and potential data gaps for non-fish marine organisms (cnidarians, crustaceans, echinoderms, molluscs, sponges, mammals, reptiles, and seabirds) covered by the global database SeaLifeBase were reviewed for eight marine ecosystems ...
Luisa R. Abucay +25 more
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Evidence Supporting Predation of 4-m Marine Reptile by Triassic Megapredator
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 large marine eosauropterygian reptile with affinities to nothosauroid diapsids from the Early Triassic of British Columbia, Canada [PDF]
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 2019 Sauropterygia, one of the main clades of Mesozoic marine reptiles, diversified shortly after the Permo-Triassic biotic crisis and afterwards remained one of the major components of Early Triassic and later Mesozoic marine ecosystems.
Torsten M. Scheyer +2 more
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Environmental Chemistry and Ecotoxicology, 2023 The exposure of marine reptiles to phthalates has received considerable attention due to the ubiquitous occurrence of these contaminants in the marine environment.
Olga Novillo Sanjuan +5 more
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