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Home / Science / Earth Sciences / Paleontology / Vertebrates / Marine Reptiles
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- Fossil Preparation Lab SUNY Brockport - Watch the preparation of a fossil icthyosaur found in Wyoming in 1998. Click on "Current Projects"
vortex.weather.Brockport.EDU/~jmassare/riley/prepcontents.html
- Gaia - Marine Reptiles - Lots of information about the various groups of marine reptiles.
www.kheper.auz.com/gaia/biosphere/vertebrates/marine_reptiles.html
- Ichthyosaur with Skin - Ichthyosaurs and other marine reptiles are sometimes mistakenly called dinosaurs. This rare example shows the skin as a thin organic layer preserving the ouline of the body in a specimen at the Hunterian Museum.
www.gla.ac.uk/Museum/HuntMus/dinosaur/ichth.html
- M.J. Everhart's Marine Reptile References. - An alphabetical listing by author of published papers about ichthyosaurs, marine turtles, mosasaurs and plesiosaurs.
www.oceansofkansas.com/rep-refs.html
- Marine Reptiles - Links to other marine reptile sites by Richard Cowen.
biology.fullerton.edu/biol404/hol/hol_ch16.html
- Marine reptiles: Palaeontological Museum, University of Oslo, Norway - A collection of photographs of marine reptile specimens at various European museums
www.toyen.uio.no/palmus/galleri/montre/english/marine_reptiles_liste_e.htm
- Mosasaur and Plesiosaur Pronunciation Guide - Having trouble pronouncing those long names? Want to know what they mean or who named them? Ben Creisler has compiled an excellent listing of the names and their origins.
www.dinosauria.com/dml/dmlf.htm
- Mosasaurs in Arkansas - During the late Cretaceous, half of Arkansas was submerged under a shallow ocean called the Western Interior Seaway. Mosasaurs and other strange creatures lived in this ocean. When they died, sometimes their bones were preserved as fossils.
www.ualr.edu/~ersc/Mosasaur/Mosasaurus.html
- New Zealand's Ancient Marine Reptiles - 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.
www.oceansofkansas.com/nz-aus.html
- Oceans of Kansas Paleontology - 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.
www.oceansofkansas.com
- Plesiosaur Directory - Introduction to the group including taxonomy, reconstructions, and original artwork.
www.geocities.com/sea_saur
- Plesiosaur Paleontology - Work being done on this site in Grant County, South Dakota from a paleontological standpoint.
www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Hall/1189
- Plesiosaurs - The Adams Museum's plesiosaur represents an evolutionary link between the giant-headed pliosaurs of the Jurassic and more advanced short-necked polycotylids of the Cretaceous. It is the only known plesiosaur which has this combination of features, and is thus truly one of a kind.
AdamsMuseumAndHouse.org/plesiosr.htm
- Ravin' Ray's Plesiosaur FAQs - "Frequently Asked Questions": A general QandA about plesiosaurs, plus links to other plesiosaur resources.
www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Hangar/9020/plesiosaur/index.htm
- Reptiles of the Ancient Seas - From the Museum of UnNatural History
unmuseum.mus.pa.us/searepti.htm
- The Ichthyosaur Page - 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.
www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/people/motani/ichthyo/index.html
- The Plesiosaur Site - 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.
www.plesiosaur.com
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