Landlubbers to leviathans: Evolution of swimming in mosasaurine mosasaurs

Paleobiology

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 445-469

  Lindgren, Johan ^a   Polcyn, Michael J ^b   Young, Bruce A ^c  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS LOWELL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; ANATOMY; DATA SET; EXTINCTION; FOSSIL RECORD; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; LIZARD; NEARSHORE ENVIRONMENT; OPTIMIZATION; PALEOBIOGEOGRAPHY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PATHOLOGY; PELAGIC ENVIRONMENT; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; STABLE ISOTOPE; SWIMMING;

AMNIOTA; ANGUILLIFORMES; ANIMALIA; CETACEA; CHONDRICHTHYES; CROCODYLIFORMES; METRIORHYNCHIDAE; TREMATODA; VARANOIDEA;

EID: 79958727807     PISSN: 00948373     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1666/09023.1     Document Type: Article

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