Environmental changes governed the diversity of marine ecosystems and the evolution of
marine reptiles during the Jurassic. Abrupt climatic changes, mainly cooling, produced …

There is a long tradition of indirectly inferring feeding in fossil and Recent vertebrates from
the functional morphology of bones and teeth. However, some trace fossils provide direct …

Atoposaurids were a clade of semiaquatic crocodyliforms known from the Late Jurassic to
the latest Cretaceous. Tentative remains from Europe, Morocco, and Madagascar may …

The ichthyosaur material of the British Middle and Upper Jurassic referable to
Ophthalmosaurus icenicus (Ichthyosauria: Ophthalmosauridae) is revisited and re …

Crustal extension across the Triassic–Jurassic boundary at c. 201 Ma marked the beginning
of the break-up of the Pangaea supercontinent, leading to the formation of shallow-marine …

Even though a handful of long-lived reptilian clades dominated Mesozoic marine
ecosystems, several biotic turnovers drastically changed the taxonomic composition of these …

Scotland's Earth resources, which include minerals, hydrocarbons, water and hydro energy,
have for many centuries provided a driver for population and economic growth. The nature …

In Part 2, ichthyosaur taxa of the Late Jurassic are described; three taxa are considered
valid: Brachypterygius extremus, Nannopterygius enthekiodon, and Macropterygius sp …

Ichthyosaurus communis De la Beche & Conybeare, and I. intermedius Conybeare, have
been considered synonymous by some researchers, but distinct species by others. The …

The Middle Jurassic was a dynamic interval in dinosaur evolution, but the dinosaur fossil
record from this time is extremely poor throughout the world. The Isle of Skye (Scotland) …