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Zverkov, Nikolay, Maxim Arkhangelsky, Denis Gulyaev, Alexey Ippolitov, and Alexey Shmakov. "Callovian Marine Reptiles of European Russia." Diversity 16, no. 5 (2024): 290. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/d16050290.

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Our 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. However, outside of Western Europe, marine reptile remains of this age are poorly known. Here, we survey marine reptiles from the Callovian stage of European Russia. The fossils collected over more than a century from 28 localities are largely represented by isolated bones and teeth, although partial skeletons are also known. In addition to the

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Stubbs, Thomas L., and Michael J. Benton. "Ecomorphological diversifications of Mesozoic marine reptiles: the roles of ecological opportunity and extinction." Paleobiology 42, no. 4 (2016): 547–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/pab.2016.15.

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AbstractMesozoic marine ecosystems were dominated by several clades of reptiles, including sauropterygians, ichthyosaurs, crocodylomorphs, turtles, and mosasaurs, that repeatedly invaded ocean ecosystems. Previous research has shown that marine reptiles achieved great taxonomic diversity in the Middle Triassic, as they broadly diversified into many feeding modes in the aftermath of the Permo-Triassic mass extinction, but it is not known whether this initial phase of evolution was exceptional in the context of the entire Mesozoic. Here, we use a broad array of disparity, morphospace, and compar

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Hikuroa, Daniel C. H. "Short Note: Second Jurassic marine reptile from the Antarctic Peninsula." Antarctic Science 21, no. 2 (2008): 169–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0954102008001715.

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Except for the rich record from the Neuquen Basin (e.g. Gasparini & Fernández 2006), Jurassic southern Gondwanan marine reptiles are relatively rare. A tooth discovered in the Bean Peaks, Ellsworth Land, Antarctic Peninsula (Fig. 1) represents the southernmost, and only the second record of Jurassic marine reptiles from the Antarctic Peninsula. Comprising a single, incomplete tooth, the specimen is unable to be assigned to a species, but the paucity of Gondwanan Jurassic marine reptile material means this find adds significant palaeobiogeographical information.

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Aloufi, Abdulhadi A., Zuhair S. Amr, Baker Mohammad A. Abu, and Nashat Hamidan. "Diversity and conservation of terrestrial, freshwater, and marine reptiles and amphibians in Saudi Arabia." Amphibian & Reptile Conservation 13, no. 2 (2019): 181–202. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13239045.

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Aloufi, Abdulhadi A., Amr, Zuhair S., Abu Baker, Mohammad A., Hamidan, Nashat (2019): Diversity and conservation of terrestrial, freshwater, and marine reptiles and amphibians in Saudi Arabia. Amphibian & Reptile Conservation (e204) 13 (2): 181-202, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13239045

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Elbahi, Abderrafea, Colin Lawton, Widade Oubrou, Bekkay Mohammed El, Jamila Hermas, and Michel Dugon. "Reptile biodiversity in Souss-Massa National Park: an internationally important hotspot in the Mediterranean region." Biodiversity Data Journal 10 (February 16, 2022): e79088. https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.10.e79088.

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Souss-Massa National Park (SMNP) is Morocco's first coastal national park, created to preserve the high diversity of its continental and marine environments. Reptiles play an essential role in balancing SMNP ecosystems, yet little work has been done to study this fauna. The present work aims at providing the first reptile inventory of SMNP since its establishment in 1991. During the period 2019 to 2020, several field surveys were carried out at 30 sites using time-constrained visual encounter surveys (TCVES), with a total sampling effort of 300 person-hours. An inventory of 23 reptile species

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Massare, Judy A. "Swimming capabilities of Mesozoic marine reptiles: implications for method of predation." Paleobiology 14, no. 2 (1988): 187–205. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s009483730001191x.

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Body shape and mode of swimming were major factors that affected the swimming capabilities of Mesozoic marine reptiles. By estimating the total drag and the amount of energy available through metabolism, the maximum sustained swimming speed was calculated for 115 marine reptile specimens. Calculated sustained swimming speeds range from 1.8 to 2.7 m/sec, but are probably too high by as much as a factor of two. Mesozoic marine reptiles were probably much slower than modern toothed whales. The diversification of fast, agile teleost fish in the Cretaceous may have therefore contributed to the decl

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Rogov, M. A., N. G. Zverkov, V. A. Zakharov, and M. S. Arkhangelsky. "Marine reptiles and climates of the Jurassic and Cretaceous of Siberia." Стратиграфия 27, no. 4 (2019): 13–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.31857/s0869-592x27413-39.

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All available data on the Jurassic and Cretaceous climates of Siberia, based on isotope, palaeontological and lithological markers are summarized. Late Pliensbachian cooling, early Toarcian warming, followed by late Toarcian to Middle Jurassic cooling and long-term Late Jurassic warming are well-recognized. Gradual cooling started since the late Ryazanian and continued during the whole Early Cretaceous except the short early Aptian warming event. At the beginning of the Late Cretaceous climate became warmer with warming peak at the Cenomanian–Turonian transition. During the middle and late Tur

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KEAR, B. P., T. H. RICH, M. A. ALI, et al. "Late Cretaceous (Campanian—Maastrichtian) marine reptiles from the Adaffa Formation, NW Saudi Arabia." Geological Magazine 145, no. 5 (2008): 648–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0016756808005062.

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AbstractMarine reptile remains occur in the Upper Cretaceous (lower Campanian to lower Maastrichtian) Adaffa Formation of NW Saudi Arabia. This is the first detailed report of late Mesozoic marine reptiles from the Arabian Peninsula. The fossils include bothremydid (cf. Taphrosphyini) turtles, dyrosaurid crocodyliforms, elasmosaurid plesiosaurs, mosasaurs (Prognathodon, plioplatecarpines) and an indeterminate small varanoid. The assemblage is compositionally similar to contemporary faunas from elsewhere in the Middle East/North Africa, and comprises taxa that are typical of the southern margin

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Tay, Michael A. "Problems in the Curation of Fossil Marine Reptiles." Geological Curator 4, no. 2 (1985): 65–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.55468/gc737.

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The majority of the large fossil marine reptiles stored in British museums are ichthyosaurs, plesiosaurs and crocodiles collected from the Liassic beds of England. Many of these specimens were recovered during the nineteenth century from manually operated quarries, especially those at Street in Somerset and at Barrow-on-Soar in Leicestershire. Others came from coastal exposures at Lyme Regis, or at Whitby where there were also large alum shale quarries (Howe e^ �l. 1981; Benton and Taylor 1984). Many of the more complete skeletons are now in the major collections held by the British Museum (Na

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Delsett, LL, and P. Alsen. "New marine reptile fossils from the Oxfordian (Late Jurassic) of Greenland." Geological Magazine 157, no. 10 (2019): 1612–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0016756819000724.

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AbstractKnowledge about marine reptile diversity and disparity during the Late Jurassic is increasing. This contribution describes marine reptile skeletal elements (ichthyosaur and plesiosaur) from Kingofjeld mountain in NE Greenland. The assemblage is early Late Oxfordian (Late Jurassic) in age, and consists of c. 100 disarticulated skeletal elements. The location is of biogeographic importance as it was at the time situated between the Boreal realm and the Tethys Sea and is promising in terms of future prospecting.

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Marshall, Michael. "Long-necked reptile was a marine hunter." New Scientist 247, no. 3295 (2020): 21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0262-4079(20)31406-8.

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Lemos-Espinal, Julio A., Geoffrey R. Smith, Leland J. S. Pierce, and Charles W. Painter. "The amphibians and reptiles of Colima, Mexico, with a summary of their conservation status." ZooKeys 927 (April 16, 2020): 99–125. http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.927.50064.

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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-to-date herpetofaunal checklist for Colima, with a summary of the conservation status of Colima’s amphibians and reptiles. Our checklist contains a total of 153 species of amphibians and reptiles (three introduced). Thirty-nine are amphibians and 114 are reptiles. More than half of Colima’s herpetofauna are Mexican endemics (66.7% of amphibian

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Lemos-Espinal, Julio A., Geoffrey R. Smith, Leland J. S. Pierce, and Charles W. Painter. "The amphibians and reptiles of Colima, Mexico, with a summary of their conservation status." ZooKeys 927 (April 16, 2020): 99–125. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.927.50064.

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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-to-date herpetofaunal checklist for Colima, with a summary of the conservation status of Colima's amphibians and reptiles. Our checklist contains a total of 153 species of amphibians and reptiles (three introduced). Thirty-nine are amphibians and 114 are reptiles. More than half of Colima's herpetofauna are Mexican endemics (66.7% of amphibian

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Silva-Soares, Thiago, Rodrigo Barbosa Ferreira, Rodrigo De Oliveira Lula Salles, and Carlos Frederico Duarte Rocha. "Continental, insular and coastal marine reptiles from the municipality of Vitória, state of Espírito Santo, southeastern Brazil." Check List 7, no. 3 (2011): 290. http://dx.doi.org/10.15560/7.3.290.

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We present a list of the reptiles of the municipality of Vitória, Espírito Santo, Brazil, compiled through primary data (specimens gathered by the authors) and secondary data (specimens housed at museums and records available in literature). We record 51 reptile species distributed by the orders Crocodylia (one species), Testudines (nine species), and Squamata (forty-one species), subdivided in amphisbaenians (three species), lizards (eleven species), and snakes (twenty-seven species). We recorded six species that are listed as threatened in the Brazilian List of Endangered Species, as the ter

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Le Page, Michael. "Ancient marine reptile was killed by its meal." New Scientist 247, no. 3297 (2020): 21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0262-4079(20)31494-9.

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Li, Chun, Olivier Rieppel, Xiao-Chun Wu, Li-Jun Zhao, and Li-Ting Wang. "A new Triassic marine reptile from southwestern China." Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 31, no. 2 (2011): 303–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2011.550368.

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Kear, Benjamin P., Aubrey J. Roberts, George Young, et al. "Oldest southern sauropterygian reveals early marine reptile globalization." Current Biology 34, no. 12 (2024): R562—R563. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2024.03.035.

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PAXTON, C. G. M., and D. NAISH. "DID NINETEENTH CENTURY MARINE VERTEBRATE FOSSIL DISCOVERIES INFLUENCE SEA SERPENT REPORTS?" Earth Sciences History 38, no. 1 (2019): 16–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.17704/1944-6178-38.1.16.

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ABSTRACT Here we test the hypothesis, first suggested by L. Sprague De Camp in 1968, that “After Mesozoic reptiles became well-known, reports of sea serpents, which until then had tended towards the serpentine, began to describe the monster as more and more resembling a Mesozoic marine reptile like a plesiosaur or a mosasaur.” This statement generates a number of testable specific hypotheses, namely: 1) there was a decline in reports where the body was described as serpent or eel-like; 2) there was an increase in reports with necks (a feature of plesiosaurs) or reports that mentioned plesiosau

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Silva-Soares, Thiago, Rodrigo Ferreira, Rodrigo Salles, and Carlos Rocha. "Continental, insular and coastal marine reptiles from the municipality of Vitória, state of Espírito Santo, southeastern Brazil." Check List 7, no. (3) (2011): 290–98. https://doi.org/10.15560/7.3.290.

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We present a list of the reptiles of the municipality of Vitória, Espírito Santo, Brazil, compiled through primary data (specimens gathered by the authors) and secondary data (specimens housed at museums and records available in literature). We record 51 reptile species distributed by the orders Crocodylia (one species), Testudines (nine species), and Squamata (forty-one species), subdivided in amphisbaenians (three species), lizards (eleven species), and snakes (twenty-seven species). We recorded six species that are listed as threatened in the Brazilian List of Endangered Species, as the ter

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Dernov, V. S., and M. I. Udovychenko. "(?)REPTILE COPROLITES FROM THE CAMPANIAN AND MAASTRICHTIAN (LATE CRETACEOUS) OF THE LUHANSK REGION." Odesa National University Herald. Geography and Geology 27, no. 2(41) (2023): 178–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.18524/2303-9914.2022.2(41).268760.

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Problem Statement and Purpose. Vertebrate coprolites have important paleobiological and paleogeographical significance. They are quite common trace fossils, but have almost never attracted the attention of researchers, despite the fact that in the literature there are numerous references to the findings of vertebrate coprolites in the Mesozoic and Cenozoic deposits of Ukraine. The aims of this study are to describe the morphology of coprolites, compare them with morphologically similar vertebrate coprolites, and identify their potential producers. Data & Methods. Two well-preserved specime

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Surmik, Dawid, Bruce M. Rothschild, Mateusz Dulski, and Katarzyna Janiszewska. "Two types of bone necrosis in the Middle Triassic Pistosaurus longaevus bones: the results of integrated studies." Royal Society Open Science 4, no. 7 (2017): 170204. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.170204.

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Avascular necrosis, diagnosed on the basis of either a specific pathological modification of the articular surfaces of bone or its radiologic appearance in vertebral centra, has been recognized in many Mesozoic marine reptiles as well as in present-day marine mammals. Its presence in the zoological and paleontologic record is usually associated with decompression syndrome, a disease that affects secondarily aquatic vertebrates that could dive. Bone necrosis can also be caused by infectious processes, but it differs in appearance from decompression syndrome-associated aseptic necrosis. Herein,

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Jacobs, Louis, Michael Polcyn, Octávio Mateus, and Anne Schulp. "Deep Time Conservation Paleobiology of the Atlantic Jigsaw Puzzle and the Future of the Southwestern Angolan Coast." Bulletin of the Florida Museum of Natural History 60, no. 2 (2023): 90. http://dx.doi.org/10.58782/flmnh.fior9961.

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The puzzle-like fit of Africa and South America reflects the tectonically driven opening of the South Atlantic Ocean beginning over 130 mya. By 90 Ma, the North and South Atlantics were conjoined. The introduction of Cretaceous marine reptiles into the central South Atlantic from the north coincides with through-flow in the Equatorial Atlantic Gateway and with increased productivity and upwelling of the Benguela Current. The K-Pg extinction saw the demise of most marine reptiles, but upwelling apparently persisted, evidenced by a growing Cenozoic fossil record of sea turtles and marine mammals

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Bardet, N., J. Falconnet, V. Fischer, et al. "Mesozoic marine reptile palaeobiogeography in response to drifting plates." Gondwana Research 26, no. 3-4 (2014): 869–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gr.2014.05.005.

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Schulp, A. S., G. H. I. M. Walenkamp, P. A. M. Hofman, B. M. Rothschild, and J. W. M. Jagt. "Rib fracture in Prognathodon saturator (Mosasauridae, Late Cretaceous)." Netherlands Journal of Geosciences - Geologie en Mijnbouw 83, no. 4 (2004): 251–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0016774600020345.

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AbstractTwo unusual bumps occur on the internal surface of a rib of the marine reptile Prognathodon saturator from the Upper Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) of Maastricht, The Netherlands. These bumps are interpreted as stress fractures, possibly related to agonistic behaviour.

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Ma, Le-Tian, Da-Yong Jiang, Olivier Rieppel, Ryosuke Motani, and Andrea Tintori. "A new pistosauroid (Reptilia, Sauropterygia) from the late Ladinian Xingyi marine reptile level, southwestern China." Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 35, no. 1 (2015): e881832. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2014.881832.

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Osczevski, Randall J. "The hunt for marine reptile fossils on western Ellesmere Island." Polar Record 28, no. 165 (1992): 105–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0032247400013395.

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AbstractAn expedition of the Canada/China Dinosaur Project collected several large marine-reptile fossils on western Ellesmere Island in the summer of 1989. They were led to the area by a 1939 report that a large fossil skeleton had been seen north of Trold Fiord by a member of a Royal Canadian Mounted Police patrol in 1926. This paper examines the events of the original discovery and an unsuccessful attempt by David Haig-Thomas to locate the fossils in 1937–38. Haig-Thomas had visited the area in 1935 as a member of the Oxford University Ellesmere Land Expedition. His party had reached a fior

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BARDET, NATHALIE, VALENTIN FISCHER, and MARCIN MACHALSKI. "Large predatory marine reptiles from the Albian–Cenomanian of Annopol, Poland." Geological Magazine 153, no. 1 (2015): 1–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0016756815000254.

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AbstractDuring the Early–Late Cretaceous transition, marine ecosystems in Eurasia hosted a diverse set of large predatory reptiles that occupied various niches. However, most of our current knowledge of these animals is restricted to a small number of bonebed-like deposits. Little is known of the geographical and temporal extent of such associations. The middle Albian – middle Cenomanian phosphorite-bearing succession exposed at Annopol, Poland produces numerous ichthyosaurian and plesiosaurian fossils. These are mostly isolated skeletal elements (e.g. teeth, vertebrae), but disarticulated par

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Foffa, Davide, Mark T. Young, and Stephen L. Brusatte. "Filling the Corallian gap: New information on Late Jurassic marine reptile faunas from England." Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 63, no. 2 (2018): 287–313. https://doi.org/10.4202/app.00455.2018.

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Foffa, Davide, Young, Mark T., Brusatte, Stephen L. (2018): Filling the Corallian gap: New information on Late Jurassic marine reptile faunas from England. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 63 (2): 287-313, DOI: 10.4202/app.00455.2018, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.4202/app.00455.2018

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Konishi, Takuya. "The northernmost occurrence of Prognathodon (Squamata: Mosasauridae) from the Western Interior Seaway of North America." Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 49, no. 9 (2012): 1111–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/e2012-038.

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The marine reptile Prognathodon (Squamata: Mosasauridae), a mosasaurine mosasaur exhibiting a characteristically robust skull and dentition, lived during the last two ages of the Late Cretaceous. Fossilized remains of animals assigned to this genus are so far known from North America, Europe, Africa, and New Zealand, indicating their wide geographic ranges and presumed ecological and evolutionary success. Assignable to Prognathodon, a newly discovered partial marginal tooth from Dorothy, Alberta, Canada (51°15′48″N), extends the geographic range of the genus by 190 km northward in the Northern

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Benson, Roger B.J., Nikolay G. Zverkov, and Maxim S. Arkhangelsky. "Youngest occurrences of rhomaleosaurid plesiosaurs indicate survival of an archaic marine reptile clade at high palaeolatitudes." Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 60, no. 4 (2015): 769–80. https://doi.org/10.4202/app.00167.2015.

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Benson, Roger B.J., Zverkov, Nikolay G., Arkhangelsky, Maxim S. (2015): Youngest occurrences of rhomaleosaurid plesiosaurs indicate survival of an archaic marine reptile clade at high palaeolatitudes. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 60 (4): 769-780, DOI: 10.4202/app.00167.2015, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.4202/app.00167.2015

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Scheyer, Torsten M., Andrew G. Neuman, and Donald B. Brinkman. "A large marine eosauropterygian reptile with affinities to nothosauroid diapsids from the Early Triassic of British Columbia, Canada." Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 64, no. 4 (2019): 745–55. https://doi.org/10.4202/app.00599.2019.

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Scheyer, Torsten M., Neuman, Andrew G., Brinkman, Donald B. (2019): A large marine eosauropterygian reptile with affinities to nothosauroid diapsids from the Early Triassic of British Columbia, Canada. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 64 (4): 745-755, DOI: 10.4202/app.00599.2019, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.4202/app.00599.2019

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Delsett, Lene L., Linn K. Novis, Aubrey J. Roberts, et al. "The Slottsmøya marine reptile Lagerstätte: depositional environments, taphonomy and diagenesis." Geological Society, London, Special Publications 434, no. 1 (2015): 165–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1144/sp434.2.

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Chun, Li, Olivier Rieppel, Cheng Long, and Nicholas C. Fraser. "The earliest herbivorous marine reptile and its remarkable jaw apparatus." Science Advances 2, no. 5 (2016): e1501659. http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.1501659.

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Newly discovered fossils of the Middle Triassic reptileAtopodentatus unicuscall for a radical reassessment of its feeding behavior. The skull displays a pronounced hammerhead shape that was hitherto unknown. The long, straight anterior edges of both upper and lower jaws were lined with batteries of chisel-shaped teeth, whereas the remaining parts of the jaw rami supported densely packed needle-shaped teeth forming a mesh. The evidence indicates a novel feeding mechanism wherein the chisel-shaped teeth were used to scrape algae off the substrate, and the plant matter that was loosened was filte

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Danise, Silvia, and Nicholas D. Higgs. "Bone-eating Osedax worms lived on Mesozoic marine reptile deadfalls." Biology Letters 11, no. 4 (2015): 20150072. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2015.0072.

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We report fossil traces of Osedax , a genus of siboglinid annelids that consume the skeletons of sunken vertebrates on the ocean floor, from early-Late Cretaceous (approx. 100 Myr) plesiosaur and sea turtle bones. Although plesiosaurs went extinct at the end-Cretaceous mass extinction (66 Myr), chelonioids survived the event and diversified, and thus provided sustenance for Osedax in the 20 Myr gap preceding the radiation of cetaceans, their main modern food source. This finding shows that marine reptile carcasses, before whales, played a key role in the evolution and dispersal of Osedax and c

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Ly, Chen. "The ‘biggest’ marine reptile to have lived found on beach." New Scientist 262, no. 3488 (2024): 19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0262-4079(24)00777-2.

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Fischer, Valentin, Robert Weis, and Ben Thuy. "Refining the marine reptile turnover at the Early–Middle Jurassic transition." PeerJ 9 (February 22, 2021): e10647. http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10647.

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Even though a handful of long-lived reptilian clades dominated Mesozoic marine ecosystems, several biotic turnovers drastically changed the taxonomic composition of these communities. A seemingly slow paced, within-geological period turnover took place across the Early–Middle Jurassic transition. This turnover saw the demise of early neoichthyosaurians, rhomaleosaurid plesiosaurians and early plesiosauroids in favour of ophthalmosaurid ichthyosaurians and cryptoclidid and pliosaurid plesiosaurians, clades that will dominate the Late Jurassic and, for two of them, the entire Early Cretaceous as

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Iturralde-Vinent, Manuel, and Yasmani Ceballos izquierdo. "Catálogo de Especímenes de Vertebrados del Jurásico Tardío (pieces, reptiles) de Cuba Occidental." Revista Paleontología Mexicana 4, no. 1 (2015): 25–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.22201/igl.05437652e.2015.4.1.288.

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Vertebrate remains are relatively well known in Late Jurassic deposits of western Cuba. The fossil specimens that have been collected so far are dispersed in museum collections around the world and some have been lost throughout the years. A reassessment of the fossil material stored in some of these museums’ collections has generated new data about the fossil-bearing localities and greatly increased the number of formally identified specimens. The identified bone elements and taxa suggest a high vertebrate diversity dominated by actinopterygians and reptiles, including: long-necked plesiosaur

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Schade, Marco, André Deutschmann, Christian Foth, et al. "The long and icy journey of Mesozoic marine reptile vertebrae from northern Germany, their provenance and internal structures." Palaeontologia Electronica 27, no. 2 (2024): 1–27. https://doi.org/10.26879/1313.

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Schade, Marco, Deutschmann, André, Foth, Christian, Paetzel, Carina, Püttmann, Tobias, Kenzler, Michael, Stumpf, Sebastian (2024): The long and icy journey of Mesozoic marine reptile vertebrae from northern Germany, their provenance and internal structures. Palaeontologia Electronica (a33) 27 (2): 1-27, DOI: 10.26879/1313, URL: https://doi.org/10.26879/1313

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Young, Mark T., Nikolay G. Zverkov, Maxim S. Arkhangelsky, et al. "Thalattosuchian crocodylomorphs from European Russia, and new insights into metriorhynchid tooth serration evolution and their palaeolatitudinal distribution." PeerJ 11 (August 11, 2023): e15781. http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.15781.

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From the Middle Jurassic to the Early Cretaceous, metriorhynchid crocodylomorphs inhabited marine ecosystems across the European archipelago. Unfortunately, European metriorhynchids are only well known from Germany, France, and the UK, with the Eastern European fossil record being especially poor. This hinders our understanding of metriorhynchid biodiversity across these continuous seaways, and our ability to investigate provincialism. Here we describe eleven isolated tooth crowns and six vertebrae referable to Metriorhynchidae from the Callovian, Oxfordian, Volgian (Tithonian), and Ryazanian

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Vitousek, Maren N., James S. Adelman, Nathan C. Gregory, and James J. H. St Clair. "Heterospecific alarm call recognition in a non-vocal reptile." Biology Letters 3, no. 6 (2007): 632–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2007.0443.

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The ability to recognize and respond to the alarm calls of heterospecifics has previously been described only in species with vocal communication. Here we provide evidence that a non-vocal reptile, the Galápagos marine iguana ( Amblyrhynchus cristatus ), can eavesdrop on the alarm call of the Galápagos mockingbird ( Nesomimus parvulus ) and respond with anti-predator behaviour. Eavesdropping on complex heterospecific communications demonstrates a remarkable degree of auditory discrimination in a non-vocal species.

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Buchy, Marie-Céline, and Héctor M. De La Paz Espinoza. "Piñatas of the desert: a collection of 1/10 scale models of late Jurassic Mexican marine reptiles." Geological Curator 9, no. 3 (2010): 161–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.55468/gc224.

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A decade of investigation of marine Upper Jurassic sediments in north-east Mexico has yielded a hitherto unknown marine reptile assemblage. Some of the specimens, including holotypes, are kept in collection at the Museo del Desierto, Saltillo, Coahuila, Mexico. On the occasion of the 10th anniversary of this institution, it was decided to create 3D life restorations of these animals (dubbed 'pinatas') at a 1/10 scale, consistent with current research about anatomy and life-style, using a variety of techniques and a restricted budget. The impact on the public is real and rewarding.

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MULLER, JOHANNES, SILVIO RENESTO, and SUSAN E. EVANS. "The marine diapsid reptile Endennasaurus from the Upper Triassic of Italy." Palaeontology 48, no. 1 (2005): 15–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-4983.2004.00434.x.

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Jiang, Da-Yong, Ryosuke Motani, Andrea Tintori, et al. "Evidence Supporting Predation of 4-m Marine Reptile by Triassic Megapredator." iScience 23, no. 9 (2020): 101347. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2020.101347.

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Jamison-Todd, Sarah, James D. Witts, Marc E. H. Jones, et al. "The evolution of bone-eating worm diversity in the Upper Cretaceous Chalk Group of the United Kingdom." PLOS ONE 20, no. 4 (2025): e0320945. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0320945.

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The 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. Osedax borings are represented by the trace fossil Osspecus, which has been identified in fossil whales and marine reptiles, with the earliest occurrence in the Albian. In studies of present-day whale bones it has been found that individual species of Osedax create distinct boring morphologies. The diversity of boring geometries therefore provides a proxy for specie

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Buchy, Marie-Céline. "First record ofOphthalmosaurus(Reptilia: Ichthyosauria) from the Tithonian (Upper Jurassic) of Mexico." Journal of Paleontology 84, no. 1 (2010): 149–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1666/08-122.1.

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From the Middle Jurassic on, the Tethys basin opened westward; the existence of a Carribean corridor linking the European and Pacific realms now appears well supported by comparison of marine reptile assemblages (e.g., Gasparini and Fernández, 1997, 2005; Gasparini et al., 2000; Fernández and Iturralde-Vinent, 2000; Gasparini and Iturralde-Vinent, 2001, 2006; Gasparini et al., 2002). Marine transgression in Mexico began during the Callovian, as evidenced by the evaporites of the Minas Viejas Fm. However, microfossils and invertebrate assemblages indicate that the Mexican Gulf remained isolated

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Noe, Leslie. "Lost & Found: 243. The Middle Jurassic pliosaur Liopleurodon (Pliosaurus) ferox." Geological Curator 6, no. 6 (1996): 238. http://dx.doi.org/10.55468/gc524.

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Leslie Noè, School of Environmental and Applied Sciences, University of Derby, Kedleston Road, Derby DE221GB, U.K. [e-mail: l.f.noe@derby.ac.uk] writes: I am studying the Middle Jurassic pliosaur Liopleurodon (Pliosaurus) ferox and would be grateful to know of Middle and Upper Jurassic marine reptile material, especially from the Callovian, Oxfordian or Kimmeridgian stages, that are in museum or other collections....

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Krause, Douglas J., and Tracey L. Rogers. "Food caching by a marine apex predator, the leopard seal (Hydrurga leptonyx)." Canadian Journal of Zoology 97, no. 6 (2019): 573–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/cjz-2018-0203.

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The foraging behaviors of apex predators can fundamentally alter ecosystems through cascading predator–prey interactions. Food caching is a widely studied, taxonomically diverse behavior that can modify competitive relationships and affect population viability. We address predictions that food caching would not be observed in the marine environment by summarizing recent caching reports from two marine mammal and one marine reptile species. We also provide multiple caching observations from disparate locations for a fourth marine predator, the leopard seal (Hydrurga leptonyx (de Blainville, 182

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Natali, Luca, and Giuseppe Leonardi. "Coneroichnus marinus ichnogenus et ichnospecies nov., a fossil trackway of marine reptile in the Maiolica Formation (Upper Jurassic–Lower Cretaceous) from Monte Conero, Marche, Italy." Revista Brasileira de Paleontologia 26, no. 3 (2023): 156–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.4072/rbp.2023.3.02.

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An uncommon ichnofossil, constituted of a sequence of eleven imprints, named as Coneroichnus marinus ichnog. et ichnosp. nov., is described from Mount Conero, Province of Ancona, Italy. The trackway is impressed in whitish micritic limestone of the Maiolica Formation (Upper Jurassic–Lower Cretaceous), herein interpreted as the passage on the sea bottom of a marine reptile, softly interfering in the sediment-water interface. Its gait can be defined as half-swimming, that is the swimming in exploratory and punting propulsive contact with the mud at the bottom. We discuss the probable trackmaker

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Hawlitschek, Oliver, Boris Brückmann, Johannes Berger, Katie Green, and Frank Glaw. "Integrating field surveys and remote sensing data to study distribution, habitat use and conservation status of the herpetofauna of the Comoro Islands." ZooKeys 144 (November 3, 2011): 21–79. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.144.1648.

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We studied the non-marine reptile and amphibian species of the volcanic Comoro archipelago in the Western Indian Ocean, a poorly known island herpetofauna comprising numerous microendemic species of potentially high extinction risk and widespread, non-endemic and often invasive taxa. According to our data, the Comoro islands are inhabited by two amphibian species and at least 28 species of reptiles although ongoing genetic studies and unconfirmed historical records suggest an even higher species diversity. 14 of the 28 currently recognized species of terrestrial reptiles (50%) and the two amph

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KOČÍ, TOMÁŠ, MARTINA KOČOVÁ VESELSKÁ, WILLIAM A. NEWMAN, JOHN S. BUCKERIDGE, and JAN SKLENÁŘ. "Archaeochionelasmus nekvasilovae gen. et sp. nov. (Cirripedia, Balanomorpha, Chionelasmatoidea) from the Bohemian Cretaceous Basin (Czech Republic): the first bona fide Cretaceous neobalanoform." Zootaxa 4294, no. 2 (2017): 181. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4294.2.3.

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This paper records a new sessile cirripede from a nearshore, shallow-water facies at Předboj near Prague, Czech Republic. The new taxon, Archaeochionelasmus nekvasilovae gen. et sp. nov., is the earliest known neobalanoform barnacle, and while it may have been an obligate commensal of a cephalopod or marine reptile, that it was a shore barnacle cannot be ruled out. (Zoobank registration: urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:177CC951-CEC1-425C-B693-46ADB83BD5D9)

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