Quantitative Reconstruction and Two-Dimensional, Steady Flow Hydrodynamics of the Plesiosaur Flipper [PDF]
, 2013 Plesiosaurs are a group of extinct marine reptiles that thrived during the Mesozoic Era. They are unique for swimming with two hydrofoil-shaped flippers. Penguins, sea turtles, and cetaceans all have hydrofoil shaped flippers but penguins and sea turtles
DeBlois, Mark Cruz
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Impact of early Toarcian climatic changes on marine reptiles:Extinction and recovery [PDF]
Environmental changes governed the diversity of marine ecosystems and the evolution of marine reptiles during the Jurassic. Abrupt climatic changes, mainly cooling, produced crises in marine ecosystems including marine reptiles, but global warming events
Benton, Michael +2 more
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The long-term ecology and evolution of marine reptiles in a Jurassic seaway [PDF]
, 2018 Marine reptiles flourished in the Mesozoic oceans, filling ecological roles today dominated by crocodylians, large fish, sharks and cetaceans. Many groups of these reptiles coexisted for over 50 million years (Myr), through major environmental changes ...
AA Chiarenza +50 more
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A new specimen of Cardiocorax mukulu with a nearly complete cranium from Angola [PDF]
, 2020 We report a plesiosaur specimen that includes the most well complete skull of an Elasmoaurid plesiosaurian from Sub-Saharan Africa. The new specimen, MGUAN PA278 from the Maastrichtian outcrops of Bentiaba, Angola includes fully preserved semicircular ...
Marx, Miguel Patrick
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化石海棲爬虫類の視覚機能および潜水深度の推定のための現生種の眼構造の定量的解析 [PDF]
, 2019 東京大学The University of Tokyo博士(理学)学位の種別: 課程博士審査委員会委員 : （主査）東京大学教授 遠藤 一佳, （副査）東京大学教授 遠藤 秀紀, 東京大学教授 佐々木 猛智, 国立科学博物館コレクションディレクター 真鍋 真, 東京大学准教授 對比地 孝亘doctoral ...
Yamashita, Momo, 山下, 桃
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The sauropod from the Albian of Mesnil-Saint-Père [PDF]
, 2005 : A vertebra from the Albian of Mesnil-Saint-Père (Aube, eastern Paris Basin), previously identified as the first caudal of a sauropod dinosaur, is shown to be a dorsal vertebra of a large pliosaur.
Bruno Dubus +3 more
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A new species of Pliosaurus (Sauropterygia: Plesiosauria) from the Middle Volgian of central Spitsbergen, Norway [PDF]
, 2012 Eight seasons of fieldwork in the Upper Jurassic black shales of the Slottsmøya Member of the Agardhfjellet Formation (Upper Jurassic; Middle Volgian) in the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard have yielded numerous skeletal remains of plesiosaurs and ...
Druckenmiller, Patric S. +2 more
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The rise of macropredatory pliosaurids near the Early-Middle Jurassic transition. [PDF]
Sci Rep, 2023 Sachs S, Madzia D, Thuy B, Kear BP.
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Microvertebrate faunal assemblages of the Favel Formation (late Cenomanian-middle Turonian) of Manitoba, Canada. [PDF]
PeerJ, 2023 Kilmury AA +6 more
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