Ancient Marine Reptiles
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Ancient Marine Reptiles

  1. 501 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Ancient Marine Reptiles

About this book

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.- First book in more than 80 years devoted exclusively to fossil marine reptiles- Documents the most current research on extinct marine reptiles- Prepared by the world's most prominent experts in the field- Well illustrated

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Information

Publisher
Academic Press
Year
1997
Print ISBN
9780121552107
eBook ISBN
9780080527215
Topic
Biological Sciences
Subtopic
Ecology
Index
Biological Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Ancient Marine Reptiles
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. Contributors
  6. Preface
  7. Foreword
  8. Part I: Ichthyosauria
  9. Chapter 1. The Paleobiogeography of Shastasaurus
  10. Chapter 2. A New Look at Mixosaurus
  11. Chapter 3. A Transitional Ichthyosaur Fauna
  12. Chapter 4. Temporal and Spatial Distribution of Tooth Implantation in Ichthyosaurs
  13. PART II: Sauropterygia
  14. Chapter 5. Paleobiogeography of Middle Triassic Sauropterygia in Central and Western Europe
  15. Chapter 6. Morphological and Taxonomic Clarification of the Genus Plesiosaurus
  16. Chapter 7. Comparative Cranial Anatomy of Two North American Cretaceous Plesiosaurs
  17. PART III Testudines
  18. Chapter 8. Distribution and Diversity of Cretaceous Chelonioids
  19. Chapter 9. Desmatochelys lowi, a Marine Turtle from the Upper Cretaceous
  20. Chapter 10. The Paleogeography of Marine and Coastal Turtles of the North Atlantic and Trans-Saharan Regions
  21. PART IV: Mosasauridae
  22. Chapter 11. A Phylogenetic Revision of North American and Adriatic Mosasauroidea
  23. Chapter 12. Ecological Implications of Mosasaur Bone Microstructure
  24. PART V: Crocodylia
  25. PART VI: Faunas, Behavior, and Evolution
  26. Index