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

Osteology of a perinatal aristonectine (Plesiosauria; Elasmosauridae)

(2016) José P. O’Gorman et al.   ANTARCTIC SCIENCE

Bone histology, microanatomy, and growth of the nothosauroid Simosaurus gaillardoti (Sauropterygia) from the Upper Muschelkalk of southern Germany/Baden-Württemberg

(2016) Nicole Klein et al.   COMPTES RENDUS PALEVOL

Adaptive Patterns in Aquatic Amniote Bone Microanatomy—More Complex than Previously Thought

(2016) Alexandra Houssaye et al.   INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY

Palaeohistological Evidence for Ancestral High Metabolic Rate in Archosaurs

(2016) Lucas J. Legendre et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Diverse Aquatic Adaptations in Nothosaurus spp. (Sauropterygia)—Inferences from Humeral Histology and Microanatomy

(2016) Nicole Klein et al.   PLoS One

Breeding Young as a Survival Strategy during Earth’s Greatest Mass Extinction

(2016) Jennifer Botha-Brink et al.   Scientific Reports

A new pistosauroid (Reptilia, Sauropterygia) from the late Ladinian Xingyi marine reptile level, southwestern China

(2015) Le-Tian Ma et al.   JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY

The anatomy ofStratesaurus(Reptilia, Plesiosauria) from the lowermost Jurassic of Somerset, United Kingdom

(2015) Roger B J. Benson et al.   JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY

Evolutionary innovation and ecology in marine tetrapods from the Triassic to the Anthropocene

(2015) N. P. Kelley et al.   SCIENCE

Computer Simulations Imply Forelimb-Dominated Underwater Flight in Plesiosaurs

(2015) Shiqiu Liu et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

Development-based revision of bone tissue classification: the importance of semantics for science

(2014) Edina Prondvai et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Turtle humeral microanatomy and its relationship to lifestyle

(2014) Yasuhisa Nakajima et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Mesozoic marine reptile palaeobiogeography in response to drifting plates

(2014) N. Bardet et al.   GONDWANA RESEARCH

Growth record and histological variation in the dorsal ribs ofCamarasaurussp. (Sauropoda)

(2014) Katja Waskow et al.   JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY

Ichthyosaurs from the French Rhaetian indicate a severe turnover across the Triassic–Jurassic boundary

(2014) Valentin Fischer et al.   NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN

Allometries of Maximum Growth Rate versus Body Mass at Maximum Growth Indicate That Non-Avian Dinosaurs Had Growth Rates Typical of Fast Growing Ectothermic Sauropsids

(2014) Jan Werner et al.   PLoS One

Evidence for mesothermy in dinosaurs

(2014) J. M. Grady et al.   SCIENCE

Quantification of intraskeletal histovariability inAlligator mississippiensisand implications for vertebrate osteohistology

(2014) Holly N. Woodward et al.   PeerJ

Rethinking the nature of fibrolamellar bone: an integrative biological revision of sauropod plexiform bone formation

(2013) Koen Stein et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Faunal turnover of marine tetrapods during the Jurassic-Cretaceous transition

(2013) Roger B. J. Benson et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

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

Body size and growth patterns in the therocephalian Moschorhinus kitchingi (Therapsida: Eutheriodontia) before and after the end-Permian extinction in South Africa

(2013) Adam K. Huttenlocker et al.   PALEOBIOLOGY

New information onBobosaurus forojuliensis(Reptilia: Sauropterygia): implications for plesiosaurian evolution

(2013) Matteo Fabbri et al.   HISTORICAL BIOLOGY

European origin of placodont marine reptiles and the evolution of crushing dentition in Placodontia

(2013) James M. Neenan et al.   Nature Communications

Bone histology of aquatic reptiles: what does it tell us about secondary adaptation to an aquatic life?

(2012) Alexandra Houssaye   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Seasonal bone growth and physiology in endotherms shed light on dinosaur physiology

(2012) Meike Köhler et al.   NATURE

Selective extinction of Triassic marine reptiles during long-term sea-level changes illuminated by seawater strontium isotopes

(2012) Neil P. Kelley et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

Paleohistological estimation of bone growth rate in extinct archosaurs

(2012) Jorge Cubo et al.   PALEOBIOLOGY

High Diversity, Low Disparity and Small Body Size in Plesiosaurs (Reptilia, Sauropterygia) from the Triassic–Jurassic Boundary

(2012) Roger B. J. Benson et al.   PLoS One

New information on Hauffiosaurus (Reptilia, Plesiosauria) based on a new species from the Alum Shale Member (Lower Toarcian: Lower Jurassic) of Yorkshire, UK

(2011) ROGER B. J. BENSON et al.   PALAEONTOLOGY

Viviparity and K-Selected Life History in a Mesozoic Marine Plesiosaur (Reptilia, Sauropterygia)

(2011) F. R. O'Keefe et al.   SCIENCE

A new genus of pliosaur (Reptilia: Sauropterygia) from the Lower Jurassic of Holzmaden, Germany

(2010) ADAM. S. SMITH et al.   PALAEONTOLOGY

On a typical Jurassic sauropterygian from the Upper Triassic of Wilczek Land (Franz Josef Land, Arctic Russia)

(2010) A. G. Sennikov et al.   PALEONTOLOGICAL JOURNAL

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

(2010) Nicole Klein   PLoS One

Regulation of Body Temperature by Some Mesozoic Marine Reptiles

(2010) A. Bernard et al.   SCIENCE

Global interrelationships of Plesiosauria (Reptilia, Sauropterygia) and the pivotal role of taxon sampling in determining the outcome of phylogenetic analyses

(2009) Hilary F. Ketchum et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Mesozoic marine tetrapod diversity: mass extinctions and temporal heterogeneity in geological megabiases affecting vertebrates

(2009) R. B. J. Benson et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Catastrophic ocean acidification at the Triassic-Jurassic boundary

(2008) Michael Hautmann et al.   NEUES JAHRBUCH FUR GEOLOGIE UND PALAONTOLOGIE-ABHANDLUNGEN