Neck mobility in the Jurassic plesiosaur Cryptoclidus eurymerus: finite element analysis as a new approach to understanding the cervical skeleton in fossil vertebrates

Functional morphology and hydrodynamics of plesiosaur necks: Does size matter?

(2019) Pernille V. Troelsen et al.   JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY

Osteology of Aristonectes quiriquinensis (Elasmosauridae, Aristonectinae) from the upper Maastrichtian of central Chile

(2018) Rodrigo A. Otero et al.   JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY

Quantitative histological models suggest endothermy in plesiosaurs

(2018) Corinna V. Fleischle et al.   PeerJ

A method for deducing neck mobility in plesiosaurs, using the exceptionally preservedNichollssaura borealis

(2018) Ramon S. Nagesan et al.   Royal Society Open Science

Uncertainty analysis of material properties and morphology parameters in numerical models regarding the motion of lumbar vertebral segments

(2018) Benedikt Schlager et al.   COMPUTER METHODS IN BIOMECHANICS AND BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING

Developmental mechanisms of macroevolutionary change in the tetrapod axis: A case study of Sauropterygia

(2017) Laura C. Soul et al.   EVOLUTION

Massive increase in visual range preceded the origin of terrestrial vertebrates

(2017) Malcolm A. MacIver et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

(2017) Tanja Wintrich et al.   Science Advances

Skeletal anatomy of an exceptionally complete specimen of a new genus of plesiosaur from the Early Cretaceous (Early Albian) of northeastern Alberta, Canada

(2017) Patrick S. Druckenmiller et al.   PALAEONTOGRAPHICA ABTEILUNG A-PALAOZOOLOGIE-STRATIGRAPHIE

Polycotylus latipinnisCope (Plesiosauria, Polycotylidae), a nearly complete skeleton from the Niobrara Formation (early Campanian) of southwestern South Dakota

(2015) Bruce A. Schumacher 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

The invisible fish: hydrodynamic constraints for predator-prey interaction in fossil fish Saurichthys compared to recent actinopterygians

(2015) I. Kogan et al.   Biology Open

Finite element modeling of soft tissues: Material models, tissue interaction and challenges

(2014) Maren Freutel et al.   CLINICAL BIOMECHANICS

An experimental and morphometric test of the relationship between vertebral morphology and joint stiffness in Nile crocodiles (Crocodylus niloticus)

(2014) J. L. Molnar et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Patterns of morphological variation of the vertebral column in dolphins

(2014) M. Viglino et al.   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

Computational visual ecology in the pelagic realm

(2014) D.-E. Nilsson et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The Cervical Spine of the American Barn Owl (Tyto furcata pratincola): I. Anatomy of the Vertebrae and Regionalization in Their S-Shaped Arrangement

(2014) Markus Krings et al.   PLoS One

Faunal turnover of marine tetrapods during the Jurassic-Cretaceous transition

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

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

(2013) Tamaki Sato et al.   PALAEONTOLOGY

Inter-Vertebral Flexibility of the Ostrich Neck: Implications for Estimating Sauropod Neck Flexibility

(2013) Matthew J. Cobley et al.   PLoS One

The Articulation of Sauropod Necks: Methodology and Mythology

(2013) Kent A. Stevens   PLoS One

Why sauropods had long necks; and why giraffes have short necks

(2013) Michael P. Taylor et al.   PeerJ

Geometry strongly influences the response of numerical models of the lumbar spine—A probabilistic finite element analysis

(2012) Frank Niemeyer et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOMECHANICS

Death, decay and disarticulation: Modelling the skeletal taphonomy of marine reptiles demonstrated using Serpianosaurus (Reptilia; Sauropterygia)

(2012) S.R. Beardmore et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

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

Re-evaluating Moodie’s Opisthotonic-Posture Hypothesis in Fossil Vertebrates Part I: Reptiles—the taphonomy of the bipedal dinosaurs Compsognathus longipes and Juravenator starki from the Solnhofen Archipelago (Jurassic, Germany)

(2012) Achim G. Reisdorf et al.   Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments

Understanding selection for long necks in different taxa

(2011) David M. Wilkinson et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

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

(2011) F. R. O'Keefe et al.   SCIENCE

The new plesiosaurian genusNichollssaurafrom Alberta, Canada: replacement name for the preoccupied genusNichollsia

(2010) Patrick S. Druckenmiller et al.   JOURNAL OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY

Homeotic effects, somitogenesis and the evolution of vertebral numbers in recent and fossil amniotes

(2010) J. Muller et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The Elasmosaurid Shoulder-girdle and Fore-limb.

(2010) D. M. S. Watson   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON

Head and Neck Posture in Sauropod Dinosaurs Inferred from Extant Animals

(2009) Michael P. Taylor et al.   ACTA PALAEONTOLOGICA POLONICA

Elasmosaur (Reptilia: Sauropterygia) neck flexibility: Implications for feeding strategies

(2007) Maria Zammit et al.   COMPARATIVE BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY A-MOLECULAR & INTEGRATIVE PHYSIOLOGY