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A New Specimen of Carroll's Mystery Hupehsuchian from the Lower Triassic of China

scientific article published in 2015

A New Specimen of Thalattosauroidea (Reptilia, Thalattosauriformes) from the Middle Triassic (Ladinian) of Xingyi, Southernwestern China

scientific article published in 2021

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

scientific article (publication date: 5 November 2014)

A carapace-like bony 'body tube' in an early triassic marine reptile and the onset of marine tetrapod predation

scientific article published in 2014

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

scientific article

A new Anisian (Middle Triassic) eosauropterygian (Reptilia, Sauropterygia) from Panzhou, Guizhou Province, China

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A new Lower Triassic ichthyopterygian assemblage from Fossil Hill, Nevada

scientific article

A new Middle Triassic eosauropterygian (Reptilia, Sauropterygia) from southwestern China

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A new juvenile specimen of Guanlingsaurus (Ichthyosauria, Shastasauridae) from the Upper Triassic of southwestern China

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A new pachypleurosaur (Reptilia: Sauropterygia) from the lower Middle Triassic of southwestern China and the phylogenetic relationships of Chinese pachypleurosaurs

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

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A new species of Xinpusaurus (Reptilia, Thalattosauria) from the Ladinian (Middle Triassic) of Xingyi, Guizhou, southwestern China

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A new specimen of Lariosaurus xingyiensis (Reptilia, Sauropterygia) from the Ladinian (Middle Triassic) Zhuganpo Member, Falang Formation, Guizhou, China

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A new specimen ofNothosaurus youngifrom the Middle Triassic of Guizhou, China

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A reinterpretation of the Upper Triassic ichthyosaurShonisaurus

A small short-necked hupehsuchian from the lower Triassic of Hubei Province, China

scientific article published in 2014

Absence of suction feeding ichthyosaurs and its implications for triassic mesopelagic paleoecology

scientific article

Adult sex ratio, sexual dimorphism and sexual selection in a Mesozoic reptile

scientific article (publication date: 22 September 2015)

Allometry indicates giant eyes of giant squid are not exceptional

scientific article

Ammonoid age control of the Early Triassic marine reptiles from Chaohu (South China)

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Biodiversity and Sequence of the Middle Triassic Panxian Marine Reptile Fauna, Guizhou Province, China

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

scientific article published on 28 October 2015

Detailed tooth morphology in a durophagous ichthyosaur captured by 3D laser scanner

EVOLUTION OF FISH-SHAPED REPTILES (REPTILIA: ICHTHYOPTERYGIA) IN THEIR PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENTS AND CONSTRAINTS

scholarly article by Ryosuke Motani published 31 May 2005 in Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Early Triassic marine reptile representing the oldest record of unusually small eyes in reptiles indicating non-visual prey detection

scientific article published in Scientific Reports

Eccentricity and obliquity paced carbon cycling in the Early Triassic and implications for post-extinction ecosystem recovery

scientific article

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

scientific article

Eel-like swimming in the earliest ichthyosaurs

scientific article (publication date: 25 July 1996)

Estimating body mass from silhouettes: testing the assumption of elliptical body cross-sections

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Evidence Supporting Predation of 4-m Marine Reptile by Triassic Megapredator

scientific article published on 29 July 2020

First evidence of centralia in Ichthyopterygia reiterating bias from paedomorphic characters on marine reptile phylogenetic reconstruction

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First record of Placodontoidea (Reptilia, Sauropterygia, Placodontia) from the Eastern Tethys

article by Da-Yong Jiang et al published 12 September 2008 in Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology

Flipper bone distribution reveals flexible trailing edge in underwater flying marine tetrapods

scientific article published on 22 April 2019

Functional Morphology of Vertebrate Claws Investigated Using Functionally Based Categories and Multiple Morphological Metrics

scientific article published on 03 January 2021

Horizons and assemblages of Middle Triassic marine reptiles from Panxian, Guizhou, China

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How warm is too warm for the life cycle of actinopterygian fishes?

scientific article

Ichthyosaurian relationships illuminated by new primitive skeletons from Japan

scientific article published in Nature

IsOmphalosaurusichthyopterygian?—A phylogenetic perspective

scholarly article by Ryosuke Motani published 27 June 2000 in Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology

Land to sea transitions in vertebrates: the dynamics of colonization

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Large eyeballs in diving ichthyosaurs

scientific article published in Nature

Lunge feeding in early marine reptiles and fast evolution of marine tetrapod feeding guilds

scientific article

Middle Triassic Xingyi Fauna: Showing turnover of marine reptiles from coastal to oceanic environments

Morphological differences between the eyeballs of nocturnal and diurnal amniotes revisited from optical perspectives of visual environments

scientific article

New Thylacocephala (Crustacea) assemblage from the Spathian (Lower Triassic) of Majiashan (Chaohu, Anhui Province, South China)

scholarly article published in 2020

New information on sexual dimorphism and allometric growth in Keichousaurus hui, a pachypleurosaur from the Middle Triassic of Guizhou, South China

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New information on the protorosaurian reptileMacrocnemus fuyuanensisLi et al., 2007, from the Middle/Upper Triassic of Yunnan, China

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New primitive ichthyosaurian (Reptilia, Diapsida) from the Middle Triassic of Panxian, Guizhou, southwestern China and its position in the Triassic biotic recovery

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New species of Thylacocephala (Arthropoda) from the Spathian (Lower Triassic) of Chaohu, Anhui Province of China

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Nocturnality in dinosaurs inferred from scleral ring and orbit morphology

scientific article (publication date: 6 May 2011)

On the evolution and homologies of ichthyopterygian forefins

article published in 1999

Palaeobiology: Born and Gone in Global Warming

scientific article published in June 2016

Paleontology. Warm-blooded "sea dragons"?

scientific article published in June 2010

Phylogenetic versus functional signals in the evolution of form-function relationships in terrestrial vision.

scientific article

Phylogeny of the Ichthyopterygia

scientific article (publication date: 14 September 1999)

Phylogeny of the Ichthyopterygia incorporating recent discoveries from South China

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Potential enhanced ability of giant squid to detect sperm whales is an exaptation tied to their large body size

scientific article (publication date: 2013)

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

scientific article published in May 2017

Redescription of the dentition ofGrippia longirostris(Ichthyosauria) with a comparison withUtatsusaurus hataii

Relationship between osteology and aquatic locomotion in birds: determining modes of locomotion in extinct Ornithurae

scientific article

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

scientific article published on 08 May 2020

Response to Comment on "Nocturnality in Dinosaurs Inferred from Scleral Ring and Orbit Morphology"

scientific article published in Science

Rulers of the Jurassic seas

scientific article

Scaling effects in caudal fin propulsion and the speed of ichthyosaurs

scientific article

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

scholarly article by Neil P. Kelley et al published April 2014 in Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Separating sexual dimorphism from other morphological variation in a specimen complex of fossil marine reptiles (Reptilia, Ichthyosauriformes, Chaohusaurus)

scientific article published in Scientific Reports

Skull ofGrippia Longirostris: no contradiction with a diapsid affinity for the Ichthyopterygia

scientific article published in 2000

Status ofChaohusaurus Chaoxianensis(Chen, 1985)

article published in 2015

Swimming speed estimation of extinct marine reptiles: energetic approach revisited

article published in 2002

THE MIXOSAURID ICHTHYOSAUR PHALARODON CF. P. FRAASI FROM THE MIDDLE TRIASSIC OF GUIZHOU PROVINCE, CHINA

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Tanystropheuscf.T. longobardicusfrom the early Late Triassic of Guizhou Province, southwestern China

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Terrestrial origin of viviparity in mesozoic marine reptiles indicated by early triassic embryonic fossils

scientific article published in 2014

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

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The Evolution of Marine Reptiles

The cranial osteology revealed by three-dimensionally preserved skulls of the Early Triassic ichthyosauriform Chaohusaurus chaoxianensis (Reptilia: Ichthyosauromorpha) from Anhui, China

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The enigmatic marine reptile nanchangosaurus from the lower triassic of Hubei, China and the phylogenetic affinities of Hupehsuchia

scientific article published in 2014

The first specimen of the Middle TriassicPhalarodon atavus(Ichthyosauria: Mixosauridae) from South China, showing postcranial anatomy and peri-Tethyan distribution

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

scientific article published on 09 September 2019

The oldest record of Saurosphargiformes (Diapsida) from South China could fill an ecological gap in the Early Triassic biotic recovery ⬇️

journal article from 'PeerJ' published in 2022

The sea as deathtrap: comment on a paper by miller and wiens.

scientific article published on 2 April 2018

The skull and taxonomy of Mixosaurus (Ichthyopterygia)

scientific article published in 1999

Trophic convergence drives morphological convergence in marine tetrapods

scientific article

True skull roof configuration ofIchthyosaurusandStenopterygiusand its implications

article by Ryosuke Motani published 27 June 2005 in Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology

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