Reidentification of Wayaosaurus bellus and the conservative trunk and tail shape of Thalattosauria

Ancestral body plan and adaptive radiation of sauropterygian marine reptiles

(2022) Wei Wang et al.   iScience

Ecophysiological steps of marine adaptation in extant and extinct non‐avian tetrapods

(2021) Ryosuke Motani et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Cranial anatomy of Besanosaurus leptorhynchus Dal Sasso & Pinna, 1996 (Reptilia: Ichthyosauria) from the Middle Triassic Besano Formation of Monte San Giorgio, Italy/Switzerland: taxonomic and palaeobiological implications

(2021) Gabriele Bindellini et al.   PeerJ

Early giant reveals faster evolution of large body size in ichthyosaurs than in cetaceans

(2021) P. Martin Sander et al.   SCIENCE

An articulated Late Triassic (Norian) thalattosauroid from Alaska and ecomorphology and extinction of Thalattosauria

(2020) Patrick S. Druckenmiller et al.   Scientific Reports

Repeated evolution of durophagy during ichthyosaur radiation after mass extinction indicated by hidden dentition

(2020) Jian-dong Huang et al.   Scientific Reports

Effects of body plan evolution on the hydrodynamic drag and energy requirements of swimming in ichthyosaurs

(2019) Susana Gutarra et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The new ichthyosauriform Chaohusaurus brevifemoralis (Reptilia, Ichthyosauromorpha) from Majiashan, Chaohu, Anhui Province, China

(2019) Jian-dong Huang et al.   PeerJ

Hematological convergence between Mesozoic marine reptiles (Sauropterygia) and extant aquatic amniotes elucidates diving adaptations in plesiosaurs

(2019) Corinna V. Fleischle et al.   PeerJ

Quantitative histological models suggest endothermy in plesiosaurs

(2018) Corinna V. Fleischle et al.   PeerJ

Feeding ecology is the primary driver of beak shape diversification in waterfowl

(2017) Aaron M. Olsen   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Reconciling taxon senescence with the Red Queen’s hypothesis

(2017) Indrė Žliobaitė et al.   NATURE

Pre- versus post-mass extinction divergence of Mesozoic marine reptiles dictated by time-scale dependence of evolutionary rates

(2017) Ryosuke Motani et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

A Triassic plesiosaurian skeleton and bone histology inform on evolution of a unique body plan

(2017) Tanja Wintrich et al.   Science Advances

A large aberrant stem ichthyosauriform indicating early rise and demise of ichthyosauromorphs in the wake of the end-Permian extinction

(2016) Da-Yong Jiang et al.   Scientific Reports

Reprint of “Exceptional vertebrate biotas from the Triassic of China, and the expansion of marine ecosystems after the Permo-Triassic mass extinction”

(2014) Michael J. Benton et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

The Early Triassic eosauropterygianMajiashanosaurus discocoracoidis, gen. et sp. nov. (Reptilia, Sauropterygia), from Chaohu, Anhui Province, People’s Republic of China

(2014) Da-Yong Jiang et al.   JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY

A basal ichthyosauriform with a short snout from the Lower Triassic of China

(2014) Ryosuke Motani et al.   NATURE

Postcranial skeleton ofCricosaurus araucanensis(Crocodyliformes: Thalattosuchia): morphology and palaeobiological insights

(2013) Yanina Herrera et al.   ALCHERINGA

Evolutionary implications of the divergent long bone histologies of Nothosaurus and Pistosaurus (Sauropterygia, Triassic)

(2013) Anna Krahl et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

A new specimen of the Triassic pistosauroidYunguisaurus, with implications for the origin of Plesiosauria (Reptilia, Sauropterygia)

(2013) Tamaki Sato et al.   PALAEONTOLOGY

The timing and pattern of biotic recovery following the end-Permian mass extinction

(2012) Zhong-Qiang Chen et al.   Nature Geoscience

Long Bone Histology of Sauropterygia from the Lower Muschelkalk of the Germanic Basin Provides Unexpected Implications for Phylogeny

(2010) Nicole Klein   PLoS One