Morphology forms the most fundamental level of data in vertebrate palaeontology because it
is through interpretations of morphology that taxa are identified, creating the basis for broad …

Marine and terrestrial animals show a mosaic of lineage extinctions and diversifications
during the J urassic–C retaceous transition. However, despite its potential importance in …

The emergence of gigantic pliosaurid plesiosaurs reshaped the trophic structure of
Mesozoic marine ecosystems, and established an~ 80 million-year (Ma) dynasty of …

Abstract From the Middle Jurassic to the Early Cretaceous, metriorhynchid crocodylomorphs
inhabited marine ecosystems across the European archipelago. Unfortunately, European …

Pliosaurids were a long-lived and cosmopolitan group of marine predators that spanned 110
million years and occupied the upper tiers of marine ecosystems from the Middle Jurassic …

Pliosaurid marine reptiles played important roles in marine food chains from the Middle
Jurassic to the middle Cretaceous, frequently as apex predators. The evolution of …

During the Middle and Late Jurassic, pliosaurid plesiosaurs evolved gigantic body size and
a series of craniodental adaptations that have been linked to the occupation of an apex …

Throughout their evolution, tetrapods have repeatedly colonised a series of ecological
niches in marine ecosystems, producing textbook examples of convergent evolution …

Abundant new ichthyosaur material has recently been documented in the Slottsmøya
Member of the Agardhfjellet Formation from the Svalbard archipelago of Norway. Here we …

Pliosauridae is a globally distributed clade of aquatic predatory amniotes whose fossil
record spans from the Lower Jurassic to the Upper Cretaceous. However, the knowledge of …