Essays about: "Platecarpus"

Found 3 essays containing the word Platecarpus.

1. 1. Long bone and vertebral microanatomy and osteo-histology of ’Platecarpus’ ptychodon (Reptilia, Mosasauridae) : implications for marine adaptations

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Geologiska institutionen

   Author : Miriam Heingård; [2014]
   Keywords : benhistologi; mikroanatomi; mosasaurier; akvatisk anpassning; tillväxthastighet; bone histology; bone microanatomy; mosasaurs; aquatic adaptations; growth rate; Earth and Environmental Sciences;

   Abstract : The inner bone architecture and histology provide information about life history traits of extant as well as extinct animals. Mosasaurs (family Mosasauridae) are a group of secondarily adapted marine squamates that radiated in the Late Cretaceous, resulting in the evolution of a body plan adapted for pelagic habitats. READ MORE

3. 2. Dental histology of Cretaceous mosasaurs (Reptilia, Squamata) : incremental growth lines in dentine and implications for tooth replacement

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Geologiska institutionen

   Author : Johan Gren; [2011]
   Keywords : dental histology; mosasaurs; Cretaceous tetrapods; incremental lines; von Ebner; Andresen; tooth replacement; tandhistologi; mosasaurier; kretaceiska tetrapoder; tillväxtlinjer; tandersättning; Earth and Environmental Sciences;

   Abstract : The dentine of teeth from five genera of mosasaurs [i.e., Clidastes, Halisaurus, Dollosaurus (Prognathodon),cf. Platecarpus, and Tylosaurus] and a Mesozoic crocodylian (Aigialosuchus) from the Campanian of the Kristianstad Basin, southernmost Sweden, displays two types of incremental growth lines; i. READ MORE

4. 3. Early Campanian mosasaurs (Reptilia; Mosasauridae) from the Kristianstad Basin, southern Sweden

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Geologiska institutionen

   Author : Johan Lindgren; [1998]
   Keywords : Mosasauridae; Clidastes; Platecarpus; Hainosaurus; mosasaur; Cretaceous; Campanian; Kristianstad; Skåne; Sweden; Earth and Environmental Sciences;

   Abstract : Marine strata of latest early Campanian age from the Kristianstad Basin in Skåne, southern Sweden, have yielded a diverse mosasaur fauna comprising four taxa: Clidastes? sp., Platecarpus cf. somenensis, Hainosaurus? ivoensis and Mosasauridae sp. READ MORE