Directory of Marine Reptiles Resources

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This category is for websites dealing specifically with the fossil record of marine reptiles such as mososaurs.

Resources in This Category

• A Bibliography of Early Papers on North American Plesiosaurs

  http://www.oceansofkansas.com/ples-his.html
  Collection of links to a chronological sequence of papers published between 1851 and 1868, on the discovery, naming, reconstruction and subsequent controversy regarding American plesiosaurs.

• A Day in the Life of a Mosasaur

  http://www.oceansofkansas.com/mosa-sty.html
  Paleo-fiction by Mike Everhart, with illustrations.

• Discovered: The Missing Link that Solves a Mystery of Evolution

  http://www.theguardian.com/science/2006/apr/06/evolution.fossils
  Article from “The Guardian” describing how scientists have found fossils of a crocodile-like animal that was on the verge of the transition from water to land, a critical early phase in the evolution of all limbed animals.

• Ichthyosaur: An Aquatic Reptile from the Jurassic Period

  http://www.3dhistory.co.uk/factsheets/26Ichthyosaur.html
  Factsheet on this marine reptile.

• Introduction to the Ichthyosauria

  http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/diapsids/ichthyosauria.html
  Provides information on the ichthyosaurs which shared the seas of the world with the other great groups of large marine reptiles, the plesiosaurs and mosasaurs, while the dinosaurs dominated the land.

• Lariosaurus

  http://dipbsf.uninsubria.it/paleo/lariosaurus1.htm
  Photographs and description of this Sauropterygian reptile.

• Lipleurodon: An Aquatic Reptile from the Jurassic

  http://www.3dhistory.co.uk/factsheets/03Lipleurodon.html
  Factsheet on this marine reptile.

• M.J. Everhart's Marine Reptile References.

  http://www.oceansofkansas.com/rep-refs.html
  An alphabetical listing by author of published papers about ichthyosaurs, marine turtles, mosasaurs and plesiosaurs.

• Marine Reptiles

  http://biology.fullerton.edu/biol404/hol/hol_ch16.html
  Links to other marine reptile sites by Richard Cowen.

• Marine Reptiles of South Dakota

  http://www3.northern.edu/natsource/earth/Marine1.htm
  Overview of Mesozoic marine reptiles, illustrations, descriptions of specific types, and a glossary.

• Marine Reptiles: Palaeontological Museum, University of Oslo, Norway

  http://www.nhm.uio.no/besok-oss/utstillinger/faste/fossiler/galleri/montre/marine_reptiles_liste.htm
  A collection of photographs of marine reptile specimens on display at various European museums. Text in Norwegian and English.

• Naturhistorisk Museum: Living Reptiles and their Fossil Relatives

  http://www.nhm.uio.no/besok-oss/utstillinger/faste/fossiler/galleri/montre/english/m_ogler_e.htm
  Fossils gallery at the Geological Museum, University of Oslo, Norway.

• New Zealand's Ancient Marine Reptiles

  http://www.oceansofkansas.com/nz-aus.html
  Information about prehistoric marine reptiles of New Zealand, where, whom, when and what was found. Paleogeographic information, where in New Zealand to see fossil material displayed, suggested reading material and links to other related websites.

• Oceans of Kansas Paleontology

  http://www.oceansofkansas.com/
  Late Cretaceous marine fossils from the Western Interior Seaway. More than 50 pages of information on mosasaurs, plesiosaurs and other fossils found in Kansas and the Midwest.

• Placodont

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Placodont
  Information from Wikipedia on the Placodonts, a group of marine reptiles with heavy armour plating that lived during the Triassic period.

• Plesiosaur Directory

  http://www.plesiosauria.com/
  Introduction to the group including taxonomy, reconstructions, and original artwork.

• Psephoderma

  http://dipbsf.uninsubria.it/paleo/psephoderma1.htm
  Photographs of some fine specimens of this armoured placodont and its description.

• Reptiles of the Ancient Seas

  http://unmuseum.mus.pa.us/searepti.htm
  From the Museum of UnNatural History

• Texas Memorial Museum: Onion Creek Mosasaur

  http://www.utexas.edu/tmm/exhibits/mosasaur/
  Information on this 30 foot long reptile, Mosasaurus maximus, from the Late Cretaceous.

• The Ichthyosaur Page

  http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/people/motani/ichthyo/index.html
  While dinosaurs ruled the land, the ichthyosaurs shared the seas of the world with the other great groups of large marine reptiles, the plesiosaurs and mosasaurs.

• The Plesiosaur Site

  http://www.plesiosaur.com/
  This site is intended to give serious and detailed information on the Order Plesiosauria, to provide a forum for discussion and for the presentation of ideas no matter how wild and fanciful on the palaeontology, taxonomy, biomechanics, biology and ecological role of members of the order.

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