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How did we reconstruct the crescent- shaped tail fin in Platecarpus?
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The Tail of a Mosasaur - A Window on the Tempo and Mode of Evolution in Aquatic Tetrapods
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- 1 The Tail of a Mosasaur-A Window on the Tempo and Mode of Evolution in Aquatic Tetrapods
- 2 What's Evolution?
- 3 Microevolution
- 4 Macroevolution
- 5 Rates of Evolution
- 6 2009 GEOLOGIC TIME SCALE
- 7 What we see today...
- 8 existed in Mesozoic seas
- 9 Squamates
- 10 Squamation = Imbricate Scales
- 11 Mosasaurs—size matters
- 12 Mosasaurs Introduction
- 13 Food for thought...
- 14 Mosasaur (Ovo)viviparity
- 15 Late Cretaceous (ca. 100 Ma-) North America
- 16 Platecarpus tympaniticus (LACM 128319)
- 17 Features on Head
- 18 Cont'd (Eye)
- 19 Internal Organs and Gut Contents
- 20 Comparison with Monitor Lizard and Cetacean (Dolphin)
- 21 Tail Anatomy—It's Bent!
- 22 Previous Tail Reconstruction in Mosasaurs—Straight?
- 23 Tail of an Aigialosaur-Also Straight.
- 24 Some Numerical Results
- 25 Platecarpus Reconstructed
- 26 How did we reconstruct the crescent- shaped tail fin in Platecarpus?
- 27 The Tale of the Tail of Platecarpus
- 28 Mosasaurs were NOT an exception
- 29 Acknowledgments
